New Ultrawide, will the old Mac Pro handle?

Hi all,

Currently I play WoW on my 2010 5,1 Mac Pro with the following specs:

  • 2 x 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
  • 64 GB 1066 MHz DDR3
  • Radeon RX 580 8 GB
  • SanDisk SSD PLUS 480 GB Sata III
  • 23" iiyama PL2390 Display

But today I bought the iiyama G-MASTER GB3461WQSU-B1 a 34" IPS 1s 144hz and my question is, will this system handle the 34" 144hz maxed out?

The other option I have is to plug the new monitor on my 2014 15" rMBP but I think it will be slower.

Can anyone share a piece of advice?

Thanks

The resolution 3440 x 1440 is really nice for WoW and the hardware should handle it. As for FPS - even super modern setup won’t give you ~144 FPS in BfA/current-expansion zones. It still should should run fine though.

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You should ask that question before you buy new hardware/equipment :smiley:

But the answer is no.
Even an AMD Ryzen 3900x or a Intel 9700K won’t come close to stable 144 FPS in WoW.
You can reach those peaks while questing with lowered settings, yes, but in general you are CPU bound when more stuff is happening like many players/NPCs acting at once (raids, cities, bgs, even 5man dungeons).

Not a problem mate If I can get the same FPS I’m getting at the moment I’ll be super happy.

My question was misleading, sorry.

34" you will have to sit like 2 meters away to even see anything. CPU is weak for nowaday standards. If your pc doesnt have issues now, maybe it will handle it somehow. I wouldnt expect a miracles here.

Diagonal for ultrawide is super misleading as they aren’t tall, just wide while the diagonal looks like taken from a huge display.

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