Warcraft build

Amarok88 · 12 Nov 2018 at 22:36

Hi guys.
I am looking to build/buy a desktop for playing world of Warcraft (me) and second life (wife)
I have keyboard mouse speaker and monitor I currently have is samsung s24d39ohl 24 inch hdmi

I have looked at this spec on toms guide but as I have been away from computer specs for a long time I haven't really got a clue.
I would like to keep it below £700 if possible, cheaper if I can get away with it with the machine still being fit for purpose for a while.
Any help would greatly be appreciated.

Lemin · 13 Nov 2018 at 02:36

Remove competitor links and prices, against rules

Amarok88 · 13 Nov 2018 at 08:45

Done, sorry

Lemin · 13 Nov 2018 at 13:01

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x MSI Radeon RX 570 ARMOR OC 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £158.99
1 x Bitfenix Formula Series 550W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply= £66.95
1 x Bitfenix Nova Midi Tower Case - Black= £30.95
1 x Gigabyte B450M-DS3H AMD B450 (Socket AM4) DDR4 Micro-ATX Motherboard= £69.95
1 x AMD Ryzen 5 Six Core 2600 3.90GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £169.99
1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD416G30= £119.99
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 256GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT256M4SSD1)= £37.99
1 x Seagate 1TB BarraCuda 7200rpm 64MB Cache Internal Hard Drive (ST1000DM010 Previously ST1000DM003)= £38.99

Total: £706.10 (includes shipping: £12.30)

Amarok88 · 13 Nov 2018 at 13:04

Great. Thank you for that.
I see it's right on my budget too. Just through interest is there anything in the list that is scraping through to keep the costs down that spending a little extra now may benefit?
Cheers

Omega_ · 13 Nov 2018 at 13:09

Amarok88 said:
Great. Thank you for that.
I see it's n.a. g on my budget too. Just through interest is there anything in the list that is scraping through to keep the costs down that spending a little extra now may benefit?
Cheers

To get a cheaper build that will still run WoW. Change the Ram too 8GB. Take away the SSD. Or take away the HDD and have a 500GB SSD Instead of the 256gb. Also take a ryzen 3 if you want the build to be even cheaper but capable

Amarok88 · 13 Nov 2018 at 13:58

Thanks
I'm happy with build just making sure that I wasn't missing out on anything for sale of sticking tightly to my budget

ExoMale · 13 Nov 2018 at 15:52

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Asrock AB350M-HDV AMD B350 (Socket AM4) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £56.99
1 x AMD Ryzen 5 Quad Core 1400 3.40GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £112.99
1 x Kingston Fury Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C15 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX424C15FBK2/8)= £65.99
1 x MSI Radeon RX 570 ARMOR OC 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £158.99
1 x WD Green 3D NAND 240GB M.2 2280 6Gbps Solid State Drive (WDS240G2G0B)= £36.95
1 x Seagate 1TB BarraCuda 7200rpm 64MB Cache Internal Hard Drive (ST1000DM010 Previously ST1000DM003)= £38.99
1 x Bitfenix Formula Series 550W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply= £66.95
1 x Corsair Carbide Series 88R Micro-ATX Case - Black (CC-9011086-WW)= £49.99

Total: £600.14 (includes shipping: £12.30)

Lemin · 13 Nov 2018 at 16:38

Amarok88 said:
Thanks
I'm happy with build just making sure that I wasn't missing out on anything for sale of sticking tightly to my budget

No I think its pretty well balanced.

Amarok88 · 13 Nov 2018 at 22:24

Thanks.
It is the first time I have ever built a pc but want to give it a go.

I am presuming I will also need to by windows 10 to run this system. Other than that is there everything there I need? If so I'll order it and get watching some self build YouTube videos

ExoMale · 13 Nov 2018 at 22:37

are you looking to play all of them or just up to like draenor? i only ever played up till the panda release which was easy to run on much less demanding systems, i know probably after Draenor the game got more demanding, but something like i suggested would do and use the spare 100 for windows otherwise the other one is plenty capable, just at top of budget.

i have decided to play again, so downloading the battle chest , base - Draenor, have no doubt my ryzen wont struggle.. that game for your wife could be played pretty much on an Atom system.

Amarok88 · 13 Nov 2018 at 22:55

I to left at mists of pandaria so would be starting there but likely to want the most recent before long so happy to go for the better spec.
I don't even know how much windows is now, will have to learn how to use the stupid tile system as our old comp and work comps are on 7.

Lemin · 14 Nov 2018 at 00:29

Download the Windows Media Creation tool from Microsoft, make a bootable USB drive. Dont have to have CD key you can select skip on that option. It all works fine without actiivation ! and buy a key for £20ish off internet. If you have no pc to make the usb on, ask a friend to do it or leave it.

ExoMale · 14 Nov 2018 at 15:43

Amarok88 said:
I to left at mists of pandaria so would be starting there but likely to want the most recent before long so happy to go for the better spec.
I don't even know how much windows is now, will have to learn how to use the stupid tile system as our old comp and work comps are on 7.

i spent most of my early to mid 20s(im 33) on this game and i quit just as the panda expansion was released, so dont know what it was like.

anyways i have been playing WoW since yesterday on my ryzen system, at 1920x1080 on high settings i get a smooth steady 122fps with dips to low 100's when out in the open doing missions, i did drop under 40 in orgrimmar going through a medium crowd, but usually hovers between 50-90fps in the city, think im having performance issues though with drivers i think, but given my 1200 is the lower end, maybe would be best to skip the 1400 despite it having more threads/performance than mine and go straight for the 6 core.

blazed · 15 Nov 2018 at 16:34

ExoMale said:
i spent most of my early to mid 20s(im 33) on this game and i quit just as the panda expansion was released, so dont know what it was like.

Sounds exactly like me, I did try BFA after 7 years. Instant regret for my £30+£10, still the same old wow that's abusing dopamine rewards mechanics for addiction on what is otherwise a big waste of time and pixel illusion. One really needs to get into the metapsyhics of what "fun" is to break addiction, is being hooked on meth ecstasy in a bed somewhere "fun". Sorry for my share

Good thing about wow is you don't need much to run it, ran perfectly fine on my i5-2500K and gtx 770 at medium specs. Should be very easy to keep below £700. Only time I had issues was blizzard still can't get servers right, Drustvar and Voldun were pretty unplayable for the majority of time with lag, really annoying whilst leveling.