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    2.2 ghz MBP and WoW

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by ourfinal, Jun 17, 2007.

  1. ourfinal

    ourfinal Notebook Geek

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    anyone have one of these and play WoW? if so can you put all the settings on medium and have the resolution maxed and tell me what kind of fps you get in shattrath in a few different areas of the city?

    sorry i should have said with 128 mb 8600 gt and not with bootcamp. looking to avoid windows all together, i've had enough.
     
    ourfinal, Jun 17, 2007
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  2. coriolis

    coriolis Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    For gaming, the GPU is the bottleneck, a 1.6mhz C2D with a 8400 will always beat a 2.4ghz C2D with an integrated video card.

    On my x700, I can do max resolution and medium settings fine, even in a 40 man raid. When they existed back then of course...
     
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  3. cdnalsi

    cdnalsi Food for the funky people

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    The 128mb 8600m GT on the new MBP 2.2ghz (if that's the one your asking about) will be able to play WOW on max resolution with every detail set to higest!
     
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  4. odin243

    odin243 Notebook Prophet

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    The 128mb 8600mGT is overkill for WoW. You should be able to max everything out at high resolution.
     
    odin243, Jun 17, 2007
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  5. ourfinal

    ourfinal Notebook Geek

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    with what kind of fps? i don't want to ever see it below 40, and according to the barefeats review they only got a 43 average with everything maxed in the tauren starting area, which has very little action compared to the main cites and raids.
     
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  6. odin243

    odin243 Notebook Prophet

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    You won't.
     
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    well considering about anything can run WoW, and the 8600 gt is a very capable card, It should maintain very high fps
     
    Chris27, Jun 17, 2007
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    cdnalsi Food for the funky people

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    Well, I can't say what kind of fps, but I can't tell you this:

    I have an old desktop back home, it has a P4 2.4ghz (single core), 512mb ram 333, and a 128mb GeForce 6600 from MSi and I played WoW on 1280x1024 with everything cranked up and never got below 40 fps :D

    So I think you can imagine what 100+++ fps numbers you'll get on a dual core processor and a video card like 8600m with 2 gigs of ram installed :))
     
    cdnalsi, Jun 17, 2007
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