I am rebuilding a old pc i was previously using, for a friend.
The PC currently has a Intel C2Q 6600. It overclocks to 3ghz on a air cooler a fairly cheap one, I'd say quality of the air cooler is worse than a hyper 212+.
The motherboard, is a EVGA 680i sli board.
I also have 4gb of 2x2 800mhz mushkin ddr2 ram.
My questions were, what would be the best video card to pair with this board / cpu combo?
I had a EVGA GTX 560 SC 2gb edition. Playing WoW I had 65/70 fps almost everywhere I went on absolute ultra settings a few months back. @ 1440x900 resolution.
I was hoping to buy a video card in the range of 90-120$ and still get close to similar FPS. I do believe the cpu heavily bottlenecked the video card. I am wondering if it's achievable to hit nearly same frames with a bit cheaper of a video card? I also would get a new air cooler and try to hit 3.2-3.4ghz on the cpu as well.
Said friend runs WoW @ 15-20 fps at almost all times, I don't know how he manages to play it... so anything higher than 50 fps would be amazing for him. I don't necessarily need ultra settings. A solid Medium to High would be good as well.
I would like this to be a late Christmas gift to him. Does anyone have any speculation or thoughts?
post edited by Eviscerate - 2014/12/25 17:44:12