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I'm upgrading a system in a month or so with an old, locked, i5 2500, 8gb of ram and a 1060 card with a new motherboard socket/16gb ram/cpu for gaming in general but mostly WoW. It has been put off a long time due to the staggering amount of cost that goes into upgrading a cpu not even being related so much to the cpu itself as much as because of outrageous price gouged ram costs and other factors. But, unfortunately, the system is at a point now where despite running WoW with a 1060 gtx, the framerate remains stuck in the same 30 fps range whether it runs games in 1080p or 4k. 30fps in WoW isn't the fault of a 1060gtx. The bottleneck is clearly in the processor.
Making matters worse, WoW has a very old engine and doesn't care a lick how many cores you throw at it, it just wants a single core with the highest IPC possible so AMD may be out in spite of their improvements. At the same time this system has been running the same mobo/ram/cpu setup for over 6 years and does not get upgraded very often at all, so if I'm looking at paying $300 for just the ram and motherboard alone I don't want to just get the bare minimum celron either, there needs to be some longevity to its lifespan and features.
What kind of combo would offer the best bang for the buck for half a grand?
Making matters worse, WoW has a very old engine and doesn't care a lick how many cores you throw at it, it just wants a single core with the highest IPC possible so AMD may be out in spite of their improvements. At the same time this system has been running the same mobo/ram/cpu setup for over 6 years and does not get upgraded very often at all, so if I'm looking at paying $300 for just the ram and motherboard alone I don't want to just get the bare minimum celron either, there needs to be some longevity to its lifespan and features.
What kind of combo would offer the best bang for the buck for half a grand?