Help assessing bottleneck

[Mafiki]

Hi friends, 

 

I just resubbed to WoW in preparation for the legion expansion, and for shits n gigs, I thought I would see how my rig can handle the new graphical settings. I cranked it all the way up and of coursed dropped down to 30 fps, but I was wondering, which component in my pc was limiting me. I have a really old processor (see pic) and I would be surprised but not that surprised if my GTX 950 couldn't handle it. 

 

However I look on afterburner and neither component is being cranked to 100%, so if someone could give me some insight it would be much appreciated! 

 

For those familiar with the game, the graphs were clocked while I was flying around in the main area of Orgrimmar. 

[david cassar]

Wow requires good single threaded performance something which amd cpus currently lack. So yeah I'd say that the phenom is currently bottlenecking your system. Also do note that wow isn't really that well optimised.

[Mafiki]

1 minute ago, david cassar said:

Wow requires good single threaded performance something which amd cpus currently lack. So yeah I'd say that the phenom is currently bottlenecking your system.

Thanks for the input! Do you have any idea why its not maxing out tho? 

[FanBlade]

I think David cassar is right. An i3 would be an excellent upgrade

[david cassar]

Just now, Mafiki said:

Thanks for the input! Do you have any idea why its not maxing out tho? 

Could most probably be due to lack of optimization of Wow. Afaik wow doesn't utilize that many cores so some cores aren't utilized as much as others. Meaning that cpu won't be at 100%.

[Hero7750]

Your phenom, upgrade to like an i3 6100 or an i5 6400 and you'll be good.

[1shanghai]

22 minutes ago, FanBlade said:

I think David cassar is right. An i3 would be an excellent upgrade

 

5 minutes ago, Hero7750 said:

Your phenom, upgrade to like an i3 6100 or an i5 6400 and you'll be good.

He didn't ask for an upgrade path, he just asked what was the cause of his problem

[Hero7750]

4 hours ago, 1shanghai said:

 

He didn't ask for an upgrade path, he just asked what was the cause of his problem

and im telling him what will get rid of the bottleneck