CPU upgrade worth it?

[NineZip]

I play world of warcraft and was getting really bad FPS in game. I bought a gtx 960 and im still getting bad FPS. After doing research on it, I found that world of warcraft is more of a cpu heavy game when it comes to getting good FPS. I currently have an AMD FX 6350. Im thinking about upgrading to an AMD FX 8350 Black edition. would this give me the earthshattering results i need to play wow on ultra settings without any issues?

[mark201200]

try overclocking

[seabass9990]

buy a 212 evo and try a overclock before buying a better processor

[x Relentless Xx]

I play world of warcraft and was getting really bad FPS in game. I bought a gtx 960 and im still getting bad FPS. After doing research on it, I found that world of warcraft is more of a cpu heavy game when it comes to getting good FPS. I currently have an AMD FX 6350. Im thinking about upgrading to an AMD FX 8350 Black edition. would this give me the earthshattering results i need to play wow on ultra settings without any issues?

Wouldnt see much of an improvement, cosonsidering an i3 dual core or an overclocked G3258 is better than an FX 8350. AMD chips are just weak chips, plain and simple.

[NineZip]

I dont know if it would be safe to overclock it without the proper cooling. I have just a cheap fan on my cpu, and honestly i never really did any research on how to overlock a cpu safely

[WereCat]

The FX 6350 and FX 8350 have prety much the same per core performance so it wont help you buying FX 8350. It will help you more if you OC your CPU if you got the cooling.

[NineZip]

Wouldnt see much of an improvement, cosonsidering an i3 dual core or an overclocked G3258 is better than an FX 8350. AMD chips are just weak chips, plain and simple.

well i have an amd motherboard. i dont know what i should do cause i cant get an i3 for it

[Zauski]

well i have an amd motherboard. i dont know what i should do cause i cant get an i3 for it

 

You can get super cheap mobo's for certain intel cpu's

[boboman342]

Given the new update to WOW giving multicore cpus like your 6 core more utilization, I would grab a hyper 212 evo or something and OC it! 

 

I got my old fx 6350 to 4.8Gz at 1.4545v on my 212 evo that is now cooling my stock i7 4790k. 

[x Relentless Xx]

well i have an amd motherboard. i dont know what i should do cause i cant get an i3 for it

Get a tower cooler or an AIO cooler and overclock your 6350, thats your best solution. Upgrading to an 8350 from a 6350 would be a waste.

[NineZip]

thank you all for helping me out. really saved me money and time hahah

[Faceman]

I play world of warcraft and was getting really bad FPS in game. I bought a gtx 960 and im still getting bad FPS. After doing research on it, I found that world of warcraft is more of a cpu heavy game when it comes to getting good FPS. I currently have an AMD FX 6350. Im thinking about upgrading to an AMD FX 8350 Black edition. would this give me the earthshattering results i need to play wow on ultra settings without any issues?

World of Warcraft is a very CPU dependent game.  FX processors have terrible single core performance, which is what WoW and all MMOs rely on.  If you are a heavy MMO player, your best option is to sell your motherboard and processor, and switch to Intel.  Even a Pentium will outperform an FX in MMOs, but the lowest end you should consider is an i3, preferably an i5.

 

What was your old GPU?  You should return the 960 because #1 the GPU wasn't the problem, and #2 the 960 is a horrible purchase.  You can buy a much powerful R9 280 for $150.

 

Overclocking will not help you much.  If MMOs are your thing, you have to get Intel.

[GuruMeditationError]

Most games only get a minor increase from CPU overclocks (literally somewhere in the region of 1fps) One or two games do benefit greatly, but for the most part the main contributing factor is the graphics card. Maybe run a search to see if WoW is one of those games that a CPU boost would help?

 

That having been said, CPU's will bottleneck a graphics card if the disparity is great enough. I'm not familiar with WoW but unless it's been seriously updated isn't it a single-core game?

 

An 8350 probably would improve performance (almost certainly) but it's not that great a CPU compared to what Intel have to offer at the same price point.

 

My advice would be to buy the cheapest LGA 1150 board you can find that does what you need it to and that'll support i5 and i7 and put the money into migrating to the LGA 1150 socket (then you can continue to upgrade the processor all the way up to at least an i7. In a view anything more than purely short term, I think that would be the best use of your money.

 

Otherwise if you just want a quick fix, maybe try the overclock as suggested or just go straight to the 8350 (put the money you would have spent on a performance heatsink to overclock your current processor into buying the 8350 to run at stock).

 

But before all of that make sure to identify if it's the CPU that's really the bottleneck (I'm not familiar with GTX 960 or WoW, or how they pair up but someone should have that info.).

 

 

World of Warcraft is a very CPU dependent game.  FX processors have terrible single core performance, which is what WoW and all MMOs rely on.  If you are a heavy MMO player, your best option is to sell your motherboard and processor, and switch to Intel.  Even a Pentium will outperform an FX in MMOs, but the lowest end you should consider is an i3, preferably an i5.

 

What was your old GPU?  You should return the 960 because #1 the GPU wasn't the problem, and #2 the 960 is a horrible purchase.  You can buy a much powerful R9 280 for $150.

 

Overclocking will not help you much.  If MMOs are your thing, you have to get Intel.

 

 

^ What he said. :0)

 

Edit: But in addition, if all you want it for is WoW then downgrade the chip to an intel with better per-core performance and put the rest of the money into an inexpensive mobo that'll support it and allow you to upgrade later on.

[david cassar]

World of Warcraft is known to run well on CPUs that have good single threaded performance. 'Upgrading' to an fx 8350 would net you no improvement. If you only play wow then a g3258 would be perfect for you. Once over clocked to over 4 GHz it kicks ass in MMOs and RTS games. If I were you, overclock your fx 6350 to the limit and save some money for an Intel platform.