Just like the title says, will I be able to turn the graphics up full power with these specs. I recently got a new computer and its in the shop to get a new mouse port (long story short it shorted out and they're replacing the whole motherboard). I won't be getting it until Tuesday so thats killing me... Anyway! Here are the specs:
-2gig RAM DDR2
-Duel Core Processor
-975X Express Chipset (no idea what this does)
-256 MB video card (Radeon X850 XT)
-5 Fans (This probably doesn't do anything but I've never had a computer with 5 fans)
-300 Gig Hard Drive
I can't remember what else it had but this is the most important stuff (I assume)
Thanks in advance for the input. If you need anymore info on the specs, ask me and I'll do my best to find it and tell you.
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I upgraded from the x850 and you aren't going to be able to run the graphics at full.
I'm not quite sure, if you plan on running with the highest graphic quality maybe you should run an ATI or NVidia card.
I thought ATI made Radeon cards. Atleast, that's what it says on the box.
ATI is the brand Radeon is the model, I'm running a 1 1/2 year old card (Radeon 9600 Pro) and I can still run the graphics at full with no lag, while multi-tasking.
Rabidsquirel wrote:
I'm not quite sure, if you plan on running with the highest graphic quality maybe you should run an ATI or NVidia card.
ummm... the Radeon actually is an ATI card.
According to the ATI website, the X850 XT is comperable to the Nvidea 6800, so you shouldn't have any problems running at high settings.
Oh didn't read it all the way sorry, thought for some reason the chipset was his card, tired sorry.
While the PC seems nice and SHOULD be able to run WoW on high settings, I do have several concerns... The first of which is you don't say anything about your cpu other then that is "duel core" Just because it is a DC CPU doesn't mean it is up to good standards. For example the Core Duos aren't that great... the AMD ones are decent... and the Core 2 Duos are basically the best on the market atm. Speed still can play a facter even with the dual core cpus.
Another is video card. With the rest of the your PC it should be fine, but that card is a bit on the old side, and low on ram in a sense. Don't get me wrong, is SHOULD be fine, as WoW can run on some pretty old cards with a good system backing it up, but if you want to get into more "hardcore" things like some of the newer games or recording video with like fraps while playing then it could turn into a bit of a bottleneck.
Another is video card. With the rest of the your PC it should be fine, but that card is a bit on the old side, and low on ram in a sense. Don't get me wrong, is SHOULD be fine, as WoW can run on some pretty old cards with a good system backing it up, but if you want to get into more "hardcore" things like some of the newer games or recording video with like fraps while playing then it could turn into a bit of a bottleneck.
Tomec the Wise wrote:
While the PC seems nice and SHOULD be able to run WoW on high settings, I do have several concerns... The first of which is you don't say anything about your cpu other then that is "duel core" Just because it is a DC CPU doesn't mean it is up to good standards. For example the Core Duos aren't that great... the AMD ones are decent... and the Core 2 Duos are basically the best on the market atm. Speed still can play a facter even with the dual core cpus.
Another is video card. With the rest of the your PC it should be fine, but that card is a bit on the old side, and low on ram in a sense. Don't get me wrong, is SHOULD be fine, as WoW can run on some pretty old cards with a good system backing it up, but if you want to get into more "hardcore" things like some of the newer games or recording video with like fraps while playing then it could turn into a bit of a bottleneck.
Another is video card. With the rest of the your PC it should be fine, but that card is a bit on the old side, and low on ram in a sense. Don't get me wrong, is SHOULD be fine, as WoW can run on some pretty old cards with a good system backing it up, but if you want to get into more "hardcore" things like some of the newer games or recording video with like fraps while playing then it could turn into a bit of a bottleneck.
For me, the surprise was five (5!) fans. That PC will need a hefty power supply to run all those motors, the CPU, the graphic card and the drives. Are they including the fans on the X850 and the CPU in the count?
Mine has 5, two 90's at the front, two at the back and the one on my CPU's heatsink.
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Shouldn't be a problem. Maybe not at max AA/AF though but I have worse spec's and I run at max WoW settings but for half AF.
I dont think WoW is meant to be a game that needs a super high spec pc to run nicely.... if it were like that it wouldnt have so many customers prolly.
Leave Terrain Distance at medium and you can put the rest of the settings @ high.
The x850 XT is a decent card, better than most above posters are giving it credit for. It is similar to the 6800, which would have been considered near top-end a year ago (and let's not forget that WoW is two years old and not all that demanding).
Overall your WoW experience will be great - turn everything to high except terrain distance and enjoy :)
I never said the x850 is a bad card, it just isn't capable of running the game at full settings and keeping a decent frame rate, especially on raids, believe me I still use that card in my second computer. If you are willing to turn some of the setting to medium and turn off the full screen glow effect the x850 will run the game great and you will barely notice the difference.
Edited, Dec 25th 2006 2:04pm by Molarean
Edited, Dec 25th 2006 2:04pm by Molarean
Molarean wrote:
I never said the x850 is a bad card, it just isn't capable of running the game at full settings and keeping a decent frame rate, especially on raids, believe me I still use that card in my second computer. If you are willing to turn some of the setting to medium and turn off the full screen glow effect the x850 will run the game great and you will barely notice the difference.
Edited, Dec 25th 2006 2:04pm by Molarean
Edited, Dec 25th 2006 2:04pm by Molarean
My PC kept a very decent framerate in raids w/ a n6600GT which is comprable if only a tad faster than an x850 XT. Keep in mind it's an XT model which are the better of the Xx00 line. My PC is no beast (Athlon 3200+ @ 2.2 GHz w/ 2 gigs RAM and RAID 0 on an A8N SLI deluxe mobo) and with the 6600GT I never fell below 25-30 FPS in AV or MC raids.
Nowadays I run a 7950GT 512meg card and the framerate is better but not THAT much better in AV/MC. I changed nothing else about my system and the only change I made to the setting was to change terrain distance from medium to 2 points short of max (I play @ max in AB/WSG because it's an advantage, but the rest of the time it's a pointless waste of FPS).
The point that I'm trying to make is that WoW is not all that graphics-card-intensive once you have at least a decent card - other factors like RAM and CPU power have a larger impact on framerates in demanding circumstances than do marginal improvements in video card.
Shmii has 850XT Radeon. Here is the problem. Card overheats and makes beeping sound once every few minutes or so. When that happens, screen freezes for a sec. First card broke down this way, and have replacement now. It's doing same thing. Toning down graphic settings or placing extra external fan didn't help.
I've got the same question as the OP, but with this setup...
HP Pavilion a1637c
Athlon 64 x2 4200+
2GB RAM
nVidia 7900GS 256MB
This setup can crank out ~40fps outdoor and ~120-140fps indoors in City of Heroes with recommended settings from their forums.
Those settings are a combination of in-game and nVidia control panel settings. Anything special I need to set for WoW?
HP Pavilion a1637c
Athlon 64 x2 4200+
2GB RAM
nVidia 7900GS 256MB
This setup can crank out ~40fps outdoor and ~120-140fps indoors in City of Heroes with recommended settings from their forums.
Those settings are a combination of in-game and nVidia control panel settings. Anything special I need to set for WoW?
powerlevel, why did you copy/past rabidsquirrels post?
Anyway, to the OP:
With a 300g HDD, I very highly suggest partitioning the drive into smaller sections. At least section off a portion of the drive to run your OS and wow game. Leave the rest for data (music, videos, etc.)
If you don't know how to partition a drive, ask someone else that knows how to do it (I was self-taught, it's not hard, but you still need to be careful).
After awhile, wow (and your OS) will start to run real sluggish, even after a de-frag. And wow reads from the hard disk almost constantly.
Anyway, to the OP:
With a 300g HDD, I very highly suggest partitioning the drive into smaller sections. At least section off a portion of the drive to run your OS and wow game. Leave the rest for data (music, videos, etc.)
If you don't know how to partition a drive, ask someone else that knows how to do it (I was self-taught, it's not hard, but you still need to be careful).
After awhile, wow (and your OS) will start to run real sluggish, even after a de-frag. And wow reads from the hard disk almost constantly.
I fear powerlevels is doing that just to bump a thread he posted in to advertise his website.
For some reason I am being reminded of the story of Echo and Narcissus. Eh, go figure.
For some reason I am being reminded of the story of Echo and Narcissus. Eh, go figure.
I run an x1800 Crossfire controller and an x1800xl both 512 and the difference is just incredible, I know people say video cards don't really matter in WoW but the quality and depth of the graphics is so much better. I know a lot of the gameplay improvements, lack of lag and faster loading time and so on, I'm seeing are due to the upgrades in CPU, HDs and memory but I really do notice an overall visual improvement with the addition of the second card and of course there is no such thing as too much power.
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