Can I salvage anything from my 10 year old PC for WoW

Fresco99

Fresco99

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Hi guys,

So I have a yearning to play the new World of Warcraft expansion and so have dug out from the back of the cupboard my very old PC box. Suffice it to say it does not perform particularly well.

Would anyone be able to offer me some advice on how best to bring this up to date? If that's even possible. Looking to spend £200-£300 pounds or less if possible.

I'm not looking for lightening speed, but would like to be able to run WoW on high settings at 1080p.

Specs are:
MSI P55-CD53, LGA1156 Socket, Intel Motherboard
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 750 S @ 2.67GHz, 2668 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
Corsair 4GB XMX3 DDR3 1600MHz RAM
Western Digital 500GB HDD
nVidia GeForce 8800GTS 640MB
OCZ Modstream 520w PSU
Thermalite Tsunami Dream ATX Case

I'd quite like to keep as many components as I can, but realise this might be a tall order.

Many thanks.
 
Thanks for the replies so far.

So I have been looking at options and thinking about the following:

Option 1:
Buy an intel i7 860 (£50 off ebay), another 4Gb of DDR3 Ram for the 2 spare dimms (£30), a second hand GeForce 1050 (£60 off ebay). Also possibly a SSD for about £40, but my motherboard is only SATA II so not sure if that's going to work.

Option 2:
Replace the Ram, Motherboard and CPU with an AMD Ryzon 3 2200g and 8GB of DDR4 RAM (all in about £250). I hear good things about the onboard graphics on the Ryzen and I think it will play WoW fine.

Option 3:
Throw eveything away apart from keyboard and monitor and buy a refurbished office HP or dell PC for about £160 and put a GeForce 1050 in it.

Would be interested to hear peoples thoughts on these? Thanks,
 
Option 1 would likely give you the best performance per pound for now (SSD should work fine with sata2, though it may not be quite as fast as it could be)

Option 2 would give you a strong upgrade path, but would be fairly limited performance in the mean time, the 2200g is great, but would be noticeably less GPU horse power than a 1050

Option 3 would be more or less swapping like for like compared to option one, you might be able to find something with a better CPU, but probably not enough to make much of a difference. 2nd gen and up i5s/i7s are definitely better, but at this level it wouldn't really be noticeable, you're not going to bottleneck a 1050 with a 1st gen i5 or i7
 
Recommended for 1080p 60hz raid play is i7 3*** and gtx 960

I had i7 860 4ghz , moved to i5 7600k 5ghz and gained 10fps ( gtx 660/980ti/1070/80 11gbps)

There's a big jump between the IPC of 1st Gen to 2nd-8th gen

Ryzen 2400g or i7 Dell unit with gtx 1050
 
Thanks.

Im thinking I might go for a GeForce 1050Ti and SSD along with eeking a bit more out of my current mobo by spending £70 on the i7 860 and another 4Gb Ram.

The worst that can happen is that it doesn’t give me the performance I would like and I buy another motherboard, CPU and Ram combo later. The GPU and SSD would still be useful.

Do you think I would see much benefit with a 1050Ti over a straight 1050 using the i7 860?
 
Fresco99 said:
Do you think I would see much benefit with a 1050Ti over a straight 1050 using the i7 860?
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Depends on the game, the extra memory on the 1050ti will have more impact on some games than others.
The Ti is definitely better but I wouldn't spend a lot extra on it :)

Edit - Had a look at some WOW specific figures and apparently on medium 1080p, you're looking at 70ish FPS on the 1050 compared to 80ish on the 1050ti. These are likely to be a little closer together and a little lower with the older CPU, but can serve as a rough guide as to the difference between the cards. :)
 
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Thanks a lot for the help.

I have ordered a gtx 1050Ti and a 256Gb SSD, along with another 4GB of RAM.

I think the RAM is really holding me back at the moment, Windows seems to be forever paging to my hard drive.

I'll see how that holds up before deciding on whether to get the CPU upgrade.
 
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