processor help wow?

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bigpaul608

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i currently have a intel celeron D 3.02 ghz, 1gb ram and a geforce 7300 GT, game plays well on high setting, but i just wanted to know if i was to buy a better processor would it run better, or perfectly? thnx
 
Well, your video card is holding you back, as well as your video card. Video cards play the largest factor while playing games however.
 
Motoxrdude said:
how doesn't it sense?
Video cards play the largest role in gameplay, how is that confusing?
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re read your first post again, you've mentioned the video card is holding him back, as well as the video card....think one of them was meant to say CPU :)
 
how doesn't it sense?
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It does not make sense because you mention the video card twice.. As follows.

Well, your video card is holding you back, as well as your video card. Video cards play the largest factor while playing games however.
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I'm sure what was meant in the above quote was.

Well, your memory (or was it cpu?) is holding you back, as well as your video card. Video cards play the largest factor while playing games however.

Anyway... I agree with the video card comments. You'd see a bigger performance increase by replacing your video with something better. The celron certainly is not helping. In the end... If you replaced either, you'd see a performance increase.
 
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jimmymac said:
re read your first post again, you've mentioned the video card is holding him back, as well as the video card....think one of them was meant to say CPU :)
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Hahah, whoops! I thought is said a video card and cpu, not video card and video card. LOL :P
 
mattsprattuk said:
performance is based upon ram, GPU and CPU, in order of importance here it is:
#1 GPU
#2 CPU
#3 RAM
#4 harddrive RPM
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Uh, no.
For games yes, but all around performance, no.
Hard drive RPM doesn't mean much of anything. You can have a 7.200RPM drive kick the crap out of a 10K hdd. It all just depends on the read and write speeds and the interface,
 
the 6600 can run WoW already maxed out.. so i think a 7300 would do so too.. WoW is a game thas more CPU and RAM based.

seeing that you have a celeron atm.. i gues you have a prebuild pc.. and udually those had like 256Mb RAM (512Mb at max)
so my question is at first.. how much RAM do you have atm? because i think that would be the first one to upgrade for WoW. the 2nd thing would indeed be the CPU.. but i think its pretty ok for the game tough
 
how much RAM do you have atm? because i think that would be the first one to upgrade for WoW.
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1gb ;), I have no experience with WOW so I looked up the requirements. Seems that Archangel is right. WOW is more CPU and Memory intensive then GPU. If you upgrade that ram to another 1GB (1024mb) you should see a large difference.
 
I agree that the CPU should be fine for gaming, the card is borderline, but should be fine on medium or medium-high settings. I also agree that another stick or RAM should be the cheapest and easiest way to increase the performance.
 
Archangel said:
the 6600 can run WoW already maxed out.. so i think a 7300 would do so too.. WoW is a game thas more CPU and RAM based.

seeing that you have a celeron atm.. i gues you have a prebuild pc.. and udually those had like 256Mb RAM (512Mb at max)
so my question is at first.. how much RAM do you have atm? because i think that would be the first one to upgrade for WoW. the 2nd thing would indeed be the CPU.. but i think its pretty ok for the game tough
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some 7300's have 64-bit memory interface. 6600gt > 7300gt just because of the memory on them.
my personal opinion is if you lower the draw distance a tiny bit it'll run awesome. :D
 
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