How effective will this upgrade be?

[utahraptor]

I want to upgrade from a pentium 2.6c to a dual core AMD x2 3800 or even a 4200 and double the ram and upgrade my video card from ati 9800 pro to nvidia 7800 gt. I already have a lanparty 875 pro motherboard and was thinking about going to the new lanparty motherboard for the AMD chip (http://us.dfi.com.tw/Product/xx_product...DUCT_ID=3872&CATEGORY_TYPE=LP&SITE=NA).

Is all that overkill for world of warcraft? I just get tired of not having 30+ FPS in crowded areas and having to wait for some delays if I alt tab out of the game to look something up on thottbot. Also, is that motherboard overkill if I do not plan to do any overclocking and do I really need corsair twinx low latency ram like I have now?

 

[quackerww]

I think it will be very effective. Thats just me, I have a pent with the same specs and a 4200 and holy crap it fly on the 4200.

 

[supaidaaman]

i play WoW and i upgraded from a P4 2.53, Geforce ti4600 128mb, 768mb 1066 RDRAM...to my new system:

A8N-Sli Premium
Corsair twinx3200c2pt 2gb
Evga geforce 7800gt
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200
Antec truepower 550w
SB audigy 2zs
WD SataII 7200rpm 350mb

to my surprise the old machine runs programs like photoshop, premiere, overall performance at about the same speed as my new one. World of Warcraft looks great but im getting around 30-55fps in fully crowded Orgrimmar and BWL. My settings are everything max with 1024x768 resolution. (of course i can encode movies, play Quake4, browse the web, and download stuff at the same time with ease)

meh...i should have just purchased a better graphics card for $150 and saved myself $1500.


In conclusion:
2 gigs didnt seem like an upgrade in WoW from 768mb...
7800gt looks fantastic, but the frame rate is the same as my ugly, terrible looking Ti4600
X2 4200...was hoping for more of a jump from the p4 2.53
WoW doesnt have a multithreaded patch yet, and people seem to have problems with stuttering (can be fixed with patches)

 

[bountykiller]

I'm thinking that your slowdowns in crowded areas are not your system's limitations so much as the WoW servers ability to handle that many people and information in such a small place.