Spec me a WoW PC

bluesaga · 6 Jan 2010 at 17:38

Hey Guys,

Would you be able to spec me a World of Warcraft PC? My little brother wants a PC to replace a crappy laptop and isn't sure what to buy, he has a limited budget but I am unsure what could play the game without any fps lag but still at a budget.

WoW is no where near as gfx intense as say Crysis obviously, so doesn't need DX10 capable for example.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18060182 - was looking at the £400 rig there, but it is still a little over current budget of around £200-300 (preferably closer to the 200 range).

Is this possible, or is it just asking too much? Cheers

PapaLazaru · 6 Jan 2010 at 17:51

Does he need a monitor?

You will struggle even without for £300.00.

bluesaga · 6 Jan 2010 at 17:57

No I have a monitor he can have, so thats a fairly good chunk off, he just needs the tower has keyboard mouse etc etc already.

w1llyg · 6 Jan 2010 at 17:57

Does he need an OS, mouse and keyboard too?
Its going to be a really big struggle to get okay PC for £200-£300

Corasik · 6 Jan 2010 at 18:29

Wow can run with quite a low end graphics card, but where it really suffers is with underpowered CPU and not enough ram.

tankskun · 6 Jan 2010 at 19:35

Check out this killer RIG! Even some change from £300

NathanT · 6 Jan 2010 at 19:38

Ok, I went a slightly different way.

As Corasik says, wow requires RAM and CPU over a GPU. You have to find £40 to up your ram and that obviously can be saved by choosing not to take the seperate graphics card.

This spec has onboard "supported" graphics * and gives you enough cash for 4mb RAM.

*GeForce 8200 on the Blizzard Support Site