SPEC: Low Budget Gaming PC for Warcraft Classic

Darr2cool78 · 19 Nov 2018 at 10:33

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!

Darr2cool78 · 19 Nov 2018 at 11:52

orbitalwalsh said:
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.

Darr2cool78 · 19 Nov 2018 at 12:00

orbitalwalsh said:
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.

Darr2cool78 · 20 Nov 2018 at 10:21

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)

Darr2cool78 · 20 Nov 2018 at 11:27

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?

Darr2cool78 · 21 Nov 2018 at 14:09

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?

Darr2cool78 · 22 Nov 2018 at 10:40

angel102 said:
only surprise will be your bank balance, you're good to go otherwise.

haha hopefully you mean in a good way!

Darr2cool78 · 23 Nov 2018 at 14:17

angel102 said:
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.

ExoMale said:
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?