Dell 1645 and World of Warcraft

How well will the original 1645 (i7 820QM, ATI 4760) run World of Warcraft? I know that the game isn't particularly graphics intensive, but I'm wondering whether I'll be able to take advantage of any of the graphical improvements in Cataclysm at a decent resolution. Is the game playable at 1920x1080? Frame rates?

Is a cooler required for World of Warcraft sessions?

Thanks in advance for your input!

 

I think Wow has had some graphic improvements especially the water in Cata. You may have to tone down settings. But this is unable to be predicted until someone with the beta and a 1645 peeps in

 

I play a lot of WoW on this laptop. I can play it at 1920 x 1080 on ultra settings with a steady frame rate of around 40-50 FPS. Now if I am raiding in a 20+ I usually lower the settings to "good" and get the same FPS. I imagine with today's patch and the new water renders, Should be alright, might have to keep it on the good settings.

I had a laptop cooler, but my 2 year old stepped on it, so for the past week I haven't had one, but I was able to grind to 80 for about 5 hours straight and the gpu went up to about 87c. Palm rest gets a little hot, but other then that, should not be a problem.

 

Talking of someone with the beta...

Although I've got a 1647, it has the same graphics card. It can run in cataclysm with most of the settings on ultra apart from shadows. I'll try and grab a screenshot showing this in a moment.

 

Here we go

Just the shadows which are on fair. If you have a specific spot which you want me to go to to take a screenshot, then just say.

 

Thanks for the response! One quick question though... what do you have Multi-sampling set to? It's blocked in your screenshot by a tooltip.

 

yea rit, the water effect has been completely removed from wow on current patch 4.01. blizzard lowred the graphics of wow so much that a good gpu doesnt matter anymore.
back in 2008 when i had xps m1730 with ageia physics, you can actaully see smoke particles rising up from fire, now it looks like a painting.

 

Anyone else notice the "experimental DX 11 support"?