Just ordered some budget bits... Need graphics card?

[SouthEastBlue]

Just ordered a Celeron 540, H61 motherboard and 4GB DDR3 for a budget World of Warcraft system for my other half/kids to mess about on, I was wondering what would be the minimum graphics card to play the game at 1400x900 on medium settings above 30 frames per second when questing?

Was looking at something like a 5450 or similar for about £20? Won't be used for anything more taxing, and price needs to be kept to a minimum.

 

[Fire_fly]

The required card for wow is a HD 2600, which I believe is more powerful than a 5450. Personally I would be looking a something like a 6570.

Did you consider one of the new AMD FM2 socket processors as they would have been ideal.

Edit: after having a bit more of a Google around, a HD 5450 should run wow at that res but I don't think it will do it very well.

 

[SouthEastBlue]

Was trying to keep the main bits under £100, and the three parts I bought only came to £85 including a B grade motherboard, and I thought the Celeron CPU would perform better in World of Warcraft than an AMD one using a separate graphics card.

Anything will be an improvement at the moment compared to the netbook it's being run on (at about 5 - 10fps), but maybe I will look for a second hand card around the level you suggested. Thinking about it I may have an old ATI X1900XT knocking around somewhere maybe this will be useful?

 

[dunn2010]

i would have said below would be good. will play wow on high for 30-40, medium 40+

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-138-MS&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1863

or

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-257-AS&tool=3

both should be good for what you need

if you do a quick google on both cards above, with fps on wow it will show the quality of each card on the game. (check resolution guys are using though)

or you could get a good second hand gtx 460 off a site rhyiming with relay for about £60-70 quid ish

 

[Idleman]

Post a thread in the Wanted section of the MM. You might get something decent for your budget.

 

[Fire_fly]

You might be able to get an 2nd hand GTX 260 for around £30 - 40

 

[SouthEastBlue]

This needs be fairly low powered really, ideally only maximum of one 6 pin GPU connector although fine if it's powered off of the PCI-E lane as it's gonna be run off my old OCZ 500w that hasn't been used for ages, so didn't wanna put much stress on it.

Posted in the MM wanted section anyway! Thanks for your replies.