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would a Amd a-10 5800k run Wow

joshcowin

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Hi their just doing a spec for a friend and wanted to no if a 5800k would run world of warcraft with the built in gpu,thanks Josh
 
These trinity chips can do some impressive things considering the cost. You can really boost performance by using high speed ram and as mentioned before going xfire with onboard graphics. CPU AND GPU overclocking will show impressive scaling with frame rates!

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD580KWOHJBOX) £99.95
1 x MSI A85XA-G65 AMD A85X Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £85.99
1 x Adata XPG Xtreme v1.0 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C10 2133MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AX3U2133XC4G10-2X) £59.99
1 x MSI HD 6670 2048MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £59.99
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £39.95
Total : £357.86 (includes shipping : £10.00).



Leaves you £150 to spend on case and SSD or maybe a CPU cooler to help your overclock. There are cheaper motherboards but this one has the latest chipset and takes 2133MHz ram. normally these speeds don't really do much but in a trinity build, they really shine.
 
add a crossfire setup to it and it would be fine for the game, that and many others, not such a small budget chip as many think, on par with any i3 for less money
 
zakblood said:
add a crossfire setup to it and it would be fine for the game, that and many others, not such a small budget chip as many think, on par with any i3 for less money
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Again it depends what settings/resolution his friend wants to play at, if he wants good settings and 1080p he is going to have to pay more. An Intel dual core and better GPU would probably work out better than Trinity Xfire if he can justify the extra expense as Xfire is subpar in WoW.

I know its a different CPU but a guy with a A6-5400K Xfired to a 6670 was posting on the WoW forums a while ago because he was struggling to run the game on average settings and the response was:

"The processor is weak, the on board graphics are weak, and the dedicated card is midrange at best. WoW also dislikes multiple graphics cards".
 
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it's a game i only installed once for a few min's, took me longer to DL and install than it did to play, soon took it off so thought it was low to mid ranged anyway, so if wrong and a a10 won't do it, then a faster dual core would maybe be better, as im guessing it's not a very good multi core game if it doesn't like dual cards either
 
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