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

[Fresco99]

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.

 

[Fresco99]

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,

 

[Fresco99]

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]

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.