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Truth be told I know very little about graphics processors versus memory versus cpu for getting a game to run at good settings, but my girlfriend wants to buy the IQ507 AND wants to be able to raid in World of Warcraft. She is currently running a laptop that won't support more than about 8 frames per second and they straight up told me (when I ran on her laptop once) that it wasn't performing well enough. I've searched high and low for reviews of the graphics card, the system, anything that might give me an idea as to the performace she can expect, but I'm getting severely mixed results.

One note to people who are going to post that it runs WoW fine... this is specifically for raiding which lags you worse than Dalaran while requiring more input (for example, you HAVE TO have specular lighting enabled and particles turned high so as not to die). So if there are any really smart people who deem to help me or anyone who has raided on this model, your input would be much appreciated.

Thank you

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June 23, 2009 6:31 PM

Yes, you should be good to play World of Warcraft on an IQ507. I haven't played WoW myself, but I checked out the minimum requirements - and you'll be plenty fine.

Enjoy :)

--Andrew

June 24, 2009 2:02 AM

check out this post

http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=9036804834&sid=1

June 24, 2009 11:44 AM

Just to supplement OngDia's post, the problem that user appears to have had was either driver related or the system he got had integrated graphics. Something I forgot to mention before is make absolutely sure you get one of the better graphics cards. There are three options listed on shopping.hp.com:

Integrated graphics - Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
256MB NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS HD
512MB NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS HD

Make sure you get one of the latter two, the GeForce cards. The integrated graphics will probably not be good enough for your needs. Sorry I didn't mention this before.

Good find, OngDia.

--Andrew

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