Ya I can throw a GPU in myself, the computer I'm using now I put together so that's not an issue. Also I do need a monitor as well. Speakers/mouse/keyboard I have. Also, if I can really build a computer to play wow at 60 fps in raids for 800 bucks I might do that. It just seems my computer should do better than it does so thats why I wanted a prebuilt to just go overkill. I currently have a AMD phenom II x2 550 black edition, 4 gigs of ram and a 9800 gt. I range anywhere from 18-30 fps during boss fights during 25 man raids and I'd like to get 60 constant like a lot of my friends have. Thanks for the help so far.
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You should be getting better fps IMO. Tinker with your ingame settings. I'd suggest turning particle density to about halfway, shadow quality to a quarter or less, turn Texture filering off, and weather intensity down.(texture filtering is a joke. You would have to take a screenshot with it on, and off to see the difference when you ran past a wall, and it isn't much compared to how much it bogs your game down) Get addon control panel and turn off all unecessary addons.
What is your average MS? For raiding, Leatrix Latency fix from wowinterface is a must have download. I went from high 200ms average to the 30s.
if your current PC has 500W or better psu and the necessary power cables, I'd just throw in a new graphics card. A 9800gt while a nice card is still pretty entry level.
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