Can An AM3 1090T x6, 8GB DDR3, GTX 460 Run Starcraft 2 And WoW Smoothly?

Overclocking is a no-go with any brand-name machine. They almost always use motherboards and BIOS versions which don't allow it. Maybe the Alienwares will let you tweak things and OC, but not Dell's regular consumer models.

I think at 1024x768 you'll be fine... a GTX 460 is overkill for such a low resolution. However the Q8200 probably *IS* a bottleneck for a GTX 460 in many games, because it's a pokey 2.33Ghz. Even a Core 2 Duo E7400 gets notably better performance.

But we're talking mostly shooters such as Crysis, Call of Duty games etc. Now Starcraft (like most RTS games) doesn't need anything really high-end on the GPU side, so I doubt you'd see any difference between your GTX 460 and a 9800GT at 1024x768. I think you'd have to get to at least 1440x900 or 1680x1050 for the benefits of midrange cards like the GTS 450 or Radeon 5750 to become apparent. However, Starcraft 2 is extremely CPU-intensive when you've got massive battles brewing towards the endgame.

And the Q8200 falls short again, because the game isn't coded for more than 2 cores. Higher CPU clock speed is what's needed, not more cores. http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,76658... An E8400 would probably be the most cost-effective gaming CPU for your computer.

Of course a Q9550 is quad-core, but expensive- it costs as much as a Core i7 930! Replacing the motherboard on any brand-name machine requires a new copy of Windows- the OEM versions from Dell, HP, Gateway, Sony etc are restricted to the original motherboard. Changing the motherboad voids the Windows activation status and leaves you with an unbootable system because their system recovery CDs don't support performing a repair install to re-detect motherboard drivers.

System recovery also won't install from scratch if the motherboard has been changed. You can use a regular Windows CD to perform a repair install but must immediately re-activate Windows, and your old product key isn't valid for any version which could actually perform the repair. So yeah... you need an unused operating system CD to change mobos.

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