World of Warcraft build and streaming

[Maverick177uk]

I’m looking to buy a pre built machine, my 6 year old PC is constantly freezing and I just think it’s on its last legs. I mainly play world of Warcraft and I’d like to be able to stream it as well, whilst streaming music and having other pages open without struggling. I do occasionally play things like Destiny 2 on the PS4 the ability to play this on PC would be an advantage but not a deal breaker. Eventually I will be connecting to a 4k TV or monitor so this could be factored in as well.
Thanks in advance for any help and advice.
Budget whilst not cheap I’d like to stay around the £800-£1k max. If cheaper all the better. I already have the peripherals so this is all about the main box.

 

[Joxeon]

You can either go onto OCUK and configure one of their prebuilds or you can pick the parts yourself then post a message in the customer service section asking them to build it for you which they will do for a fee etc. If you built it yourself then you could save on fees and put that extra money into your parts.
This is what i would be looking at for around 1k

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Kolink Castle Midi Tower Case - Black= £42.95
• 1 x MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £103.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Eight Core 4.4GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £269.99
• 1 x WD Blue SN550 1TB NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 Solid State Drive (WDS100T2B0C)= £109.99
• 1 x Super Flower Leadex III 650W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply - Black= £89.99
• 1 x Gigabyte Radeon RX 5700 Gaming OC 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £289.99
• 1 x Patriot Viper Steel 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C17 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVS416G360C7K)= £79.99

Total: £998.59 (includes shipping: £11.70)​

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[sweols]

Build above takes you up to 1k without considering OS and build cost. Drop to 3600 and get cheaper GPU. Will save £200-250. Do you play 1080p?

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My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Six Core 4.2GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £158.99
• 1 x Gigabyte Radeon RX 590 Gaming Rev2 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £149.99

Total: £319.48 (includes shipping: £10.50)​

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[Mark011]

honestly you need much less than that for WOW, check my build in the signature, that's what i've been using for mythic raiding and streaming without problems

this should be fine for WOW, if you play competitive you will have the graphics on low anyway

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Six Core 4.2GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £158.99
• 1 x Sapphire Radeon RX 5600 XT Pulse 6144MB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £278.99
• 1 x Seasonic Core Gold GM-500 500W 80+ Gold Modular Power Supply= £74.99
• 1 x Patriot Viper Steel 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C17 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVS416G360C7K)= £79.99
• 1 x Gigabyte B450 AORUS M (Socket AM4) DDR4 MATX Motherboard= £83.99
• 1 x WD Blue 3D NAND 500GB M.2 2280 Solid State Drive (WDS500G2B0B)= £61.99
• 1 x Kolink Citadel Micro-ATX Case - Black= £39.95

Total: £791.49 (includes shipping: £12.60)​

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[Maverick177uk]

Cheers guys, I generally play at 1080p but I’ll hopefully be connecting to a 4k tv as well.

 

[martin363]

From Experience WOW favours clock speed over GFX card.

Personally I play WOW at 1440p using a 1660ti, with everything pretty well maxed out, but use an intel 9700k at 5ghz and the CPU speed is critical, not the cores. This is one game you can cut back on the graphics card, but not the clock speed of the CPU, 4.4 GHZ vs 5 GHZ for WOW matters. I would go AMD every time for everything else, but not WOW.

 

[Maverick177uk]

From Experience WOW favours clock speed over GFX card.

Personally I play WOW at 1440p using a 1660ti, with everything pretty well maxed out, but use an intel 9700k at 5ghz and the CPU speed is critical, not the cores. This is one game you can cut back on the graphics card, but not the clock speed of the CPU, 4.4 GHZ vs 5 GHZ for WOW matters. I would go AMD every time for everything else, but not WOW.

Ok thanks, i did fancy jumping into destiny 2 and Diablo 4 when that comes out as well, so think I’d try for a decent graphics card as well, it doesn’t need to be top dog bit something that will see me through a few years.