SPEC: Low Budget Gaming PC for Warcraft Classic

[Darr2cool78]

Hi there,

I am going to put together a PC for my mate who wants to play WoW Classic on its release next summer.

He only wants to spend £500, as he is mainly an Xbox lad. Hopefully, this is feasible. If the price was a bit over this mark it would probably be ok as I could bring it back down with Black Friday/ Cyber Monday deals.

Only tower required - no monitor, keyboard, mouse or any other extra shineys needed.

Would prefer Intel/Nvidia combo but open to AMD if it gets more bang for buck.

All suggestions much appreciated!

 

[orbitalwalsh]

self build or pre-built ?

 

[Darr2cool78]

self build or pre-built ?

Self build, I want as much bang for buck as possible so if I can save by building myself than be no problem.

I was looking at benchmarks for the Intel Core i3-8100 and I was actually quite impressed, it seemed to surpass the previous generations i5 in some gaming tests which shocked me.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Self build, I want as much bang for buck as possible so if I can save by building myself than be no problem.

I was looking at benchmarks for the Intel Core i3-8100 and I was actually quite impressed, it seemed to surpass the previous generations i5 in some gaming tests which shocked me.

is his xbox an xbox one X by any chance ?

and does he need a monitor ?

 

[Darr2cool78]

is his xbox an xbox one X by any chance ?

and does he need a monitor ?

Aye it is an Xbox One X, no monitor required, he can pick one up in the Jan sales. I have made him aware that he should not have expectations of 4k gaming on this rig haha.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Aye it is an Xbox One X, no monitor required, he can pick one up in the Jan sales. I have made him aware that he should not have expectations of 4k gaming on this rig haha.

to be honest, over spec'd but will play games better then xbox could to be honest



My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 Quad Core 1400 3.40GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £112.99
• 1 x Gigabyte B450M-DS3H AMD B450 (Socket AM4) DDR4 Micro-ATX Motherboard= £69.95
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD48G3000= £52.99
• 1 x be quiet! System Power 9 500W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply= £54.95
• 1 x Gigabyte Radeon RX 570 Gaming 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £149.99
• 1 x Kolink Aviator M RGB Micro-ATX Gaming Case - Black= £36.95
• 1 x TeamGroup 240GB L5 Lite SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £29.99

Total: £520.11 (includes shipping: £12.30)​

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grab a freesync screen so both xbox and pc can take advantage of freesync !

 

[Darr2cool78]

Thanks for this Orbital. What do you think of the following setup in comparison to your AMD one? (no PSU included as I think I might have one somewhere)

EDIT*** oops there shouldn't be 2x ram


My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 256GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT256M4SSD1)= £37.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD48G3000= £52.99
• 1 x Intel Core i3-8100 3.6GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £119.99
• 1 x MSI Radeon RX 570 ARMOR OC 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £158.99
• 1 x Gigabyte H310M-S2V Intel H310 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro-ATX Motherboard= £51.95
• 1 x Kolink Aviator M RGB Micro-ATX Gaming Case - Black= £36.95

Total: £470.56 (includes shipping: £11.70)
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[orbitalwalsh]

Thanks for this Orbital. What do you think of the following setup in comparison to your AMD one? (no PSU included as I think I might have one somewhere)

EDIT*** oops there shouldn't be 2x ram


My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 256GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT256M4SSD1)= £37.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD48G3000= £52.99
• 1 x Intel Core i3-8100 3.6GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £119.99
• 1 x MSI Radeon RX 570 ARMOR OC 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £158.99
• 1 x Gigabyte H310M-S2V Intel H310 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro-ATX Motherboard= £51.95
• 1 x Kolink Aviator M RGB Micro-ATX Gaming Case - Black= £36.95

Total: £470.56 (includes shipping: £11.70)
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if no need for PSU , make sure its a damn good 450w unit at least !



My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Gigabyte B450M-DS3H AMD B450 (Socket AM4) DDR4 Micro-ATX Motherboard= £69.95
• 1 x MSI Radeon RX 570 ARMOR OC 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £158.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 Six Core 2600 3.90GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £149.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD48G3000= £52.99
• 1 x Kolink Aviator M RGB Micro-ATX Gaming Case - Black= £36.95
• 1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 256GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT256M4SSD1)= £37.99

Total: £518.56 (includes shipping: £11.70)​

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[Darr2cool78]

Thanks! I think it is 800w, bit overkill for this but it is just gathering dust and gives room for comfortable expansion I guess.

Which do you think is the better SSD, the TeamGroup or the Crucial?

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Thanks! I think it is 800w, bit overkill for this but it is just gathering dust and gives room for comfortable expansion I guess.

Which do you think is the better SSD, the TeamGroup or the Crucial?

which ever has best £ per GB

new disks normally lose 10GB when formatted even before installing windows which can take from 10-30gb of space .. get the larger one

 

[Darr2cool78]

Ended up going for your RYZEN 5 SIX CORE 2600 build so thanks for that recommendation. Don't think I have built an AMD (gfx or GPU) build since they were Athlon, that was like an AMD 64 3500+/ X850 XT combo if I recall correctly, anything I should know when compared to Intel building, or all straightforward?

 

[angel102]

Ended up going for your RYZEN 5 SIX CORE 2600 build so thanks for that recommendation. Don't think I have built an AMD (gfx or GPU) build since they were Athlon, that was like an AMD 64 3500+/ X850 XT combo if I recall correctly, anything I should know when compared to Intel building, or all straightforward?

only surprise will be your bank balance, you're good to go otherwise.

 

[Darr2cool78]

only surprise will be your bank balance, you're good to go otherwise.

haha hopefully you mean in a good way!

 

[angel102]

haha hopefully you mean in a good way!

absolutely, intel may have the fastest on the market, but the prices are insane even for the now out of date 8th gen chips. I built a system 6 months ago and same cpu now costs almost double.

 

[ExoMale]

never linked a video to the forums before, so we shall see if this works lol, i have the classic WoW pack up to Draenor and this is the performance i am getting with my current system, high settings, fixed 1920x1080, extended view ranges.

guess i couldnt figure it out so a link instead lol

https://youtu.be/yamIk-tz5PM

 

[Darr2cool78]

absolutely, intel may have the fastest on the market, but the prices are insane even for the now out of date 8th gen chips. I built a system 6 months ago and same cpu now costs almost double.

Yeh I am very pleased that I opened my mind to AMD this time, as before I wasn't really a fan. Seems like unless you have big big money to spend AMD is a no brainer.

never linked a video to the forums before, so we shall see if this works lol, i have the classic WoW pack up to Draenor and this is the performance i am getting with my current system, high settings, fixed 1920x1080, extended view ranges.

guess i couldnt figure it out so a link instead lol

https://youtu.be/yamIk-tz5PM

Nice one mate, what in-game graphics settings were you testing on?

 

[ExoMale]

Yeh I am very pleased that I opened my mind to AMD this time, as before I wasn't really a fan. Seems like unless you have big big money to spend AMD is a no brainer.



Nice one mate, what in-game graphics settings were you testing on?

if this screenshot is clear enough, other than view distance i pretty much didnt touch anything else really..