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Graphics Card to Play WoW at Max Settings

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With my rig, what do you think would be the best graphics card to buy to get MAX graphics in WoW and Great FPS?
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lilraver018
Hmm a 48xx or a 5770 or gtx 260 or gts 450 would be all you need to max out WoW.

5770 and gts 450 is what i would buy, whatever is cheaper.

Wow isn.t very graphics demanding so a mid range video card will do.
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TEntel
WoW can be pretty CPU intensive, so you won't be able to max it out with that CPU, no matter what card you buy.

A GTS250 will probably run the game great most of the time, but don't be surprised to see some massive FPS drops in certain areas.
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I was looking for something that could max out WoW for my woman.

She has a GT220 but it (obviously) lags in 25 man raids.
Q8300 (2.5 Ghz), 8 GB RAM.

Would a GTS 250 be suitable as well?
I think she only plays at 1400x900 or something..
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i can max it out on my 7800gt.....
Youll be fine if you just pick up a 5770 or a 4890. Id advise waiting a couple more weeks for the 6XXX announcement and youll find that prices will plummet.
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lilraver018
Yes its fine. I was using a 4670 a while ago and got around 30 fps average even on raids.
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Originally Posted by Cata1yst View Post
i can max it out on my 7800gt.....
Or not.

My 3870 lags in Dalaran on max (sub 40 fps).
Turning down/off shadows helps but only by 10-15 fps.
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Well then I guess I'll just have to get a AMD Phenom™ II X4
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Daggerfist
When you guys say "max out" do you mean set everything, even shadows, at ultra? With everything at ultra with my msi 460 i often jump around from ~30 fps to ~60. Putting the shadows to one notch below max helps a lot though.

Also, currently on the cata beta, setting the water to ultra and staring at the ocean gives me ~30 fps consistently, and I've had even lower.
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GTX260 will get you where you need to be. mine (sitting in my drawer now) got me 40+ in basically every situation I threw it at, max setting 1920x1080
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a2hopper
Yeah people underestimate how intensive it is to run WoW maxed out with 25 people aoeing the 2 trash groups before saphirron in icc. That bogs me to like 25fps with a i5 at 3.8 and a 5850 at 1000/1200.
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amstech
I have it completely maxed (ultra) @ 1920 X 1080.
25-120FPS pending on location.
Most of the time, 30-60 FPS.

Internet bandwidth and CPU frequency are MUCH more important, although to fully max the game and run it smooth you need atleast a decent midrange GPU.
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Well thanks everyone, I think I will continue reasearch and just wait it out a few more weeks, save up some more money, see if prices drop. Then buy 4gb 1066 DDR2, 3.4GHZ Quad cor(Overlock it to 4) a 700W Power Supply, and then (Insert video card here)
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tats
FWIW - I used to have two 260's SLI'd and could run it almost maxed, but with shadows down a notch and maybe ground clutter down a bit. I upgraded to two 460's and can run it on ultra and get 125-200 fps and around 80 in raids.

I found the best increase was overclocking my cpu from 3.2 to 4.0 and getting a nice ssd. No more missing people in Dalaran when you log on
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Good advice! Forgot all about solid state drives.. For 80$ you can pick them up now and just throw your operating system on there and then use a 1tb 7200 for data... Duh.
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Lotus222
I used my sig rig ...only with a 9800GTX (standard). Not only could I max the settings, but I manually overrode the settings to enhance the shadows, fauna instancing, ect.
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tats
The benefit to the SSD is having WoW on there as well. Since MMO's are constantly reading off the drive to update the landscape, character models etc, the read speeds of SSD's really shine. So make sure you have enough room for WoW too
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I dont even know I may not upgrade ever.. It seems like technology is increasing so fast it isn't worth it.. I may just wait until it slows down.. If it ever does!
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Daggerfist
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Originally Posted by Whremhold View Post
I dont even know I may not upgrade ever.. It seems like technology is increasing so fast it isn't worth it.. I may just wait until it slows down.. If it ever does!
I hope it speeds up
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Originally Posted by Whremhold View Post
I dont even know I may not upgrade ever.. It seems like technology is increasing so fast it isn't worth it.. I may just wait until it slows down.. If it ever does!
How much money to you want to spend? You can definitely get increases for a some lower $$ upgrades
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