WoW Gaming PC

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Right guys, my brother has decided he wants to start playing WoW again and has around £500 to spend just now.

What decent specs can we get him for around that?

The only thing I'm suggesting we must have is a 120Gb SSD. Don't need to worry about a second hard drive for now, I have a spare one I can give him and also we have an OS for him.


Cheers
Michael
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 270X "PowerBank" 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £143.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4440 3.10GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £131.99
1 x Gigabyte B85M-DS3H Intel B85 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £53.99
1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/120G) £52.99
1 x Avexir Core White Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CIW) - White Light £49.99
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 450W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply £39.95
1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower Black/Black £29.99
1 x LiteOn IHAS124-14 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £11.99
Total : £514.87 (includes shipping : ).



Intel

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1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 280 TurboDUO 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £169.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £83.99
1 x Asus M5A97 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £65.99
1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/120G) £52.99
1 x Avexir Core White Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CIW) - White Light £49.99
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 450W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply £39.95
1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower Black/Black £29.99
1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler £14.99
1 x LiteOn IHAS124-14 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £11.99
Total : £519.86 (includes shipping : ).



AMD
 
Cheers for this guys, will have a think on this tonight and order tomorrow :-)

Something that hasn't been pointed out to you which you should consider is that a lot of people have specified AMD processors and GPU's because they are the best performance for money in most games, however WoW is not most games and favours Intel/Nvidia.

As a result Haswell i3's are great CPU's for it because AMD has nothing in the price range that can compete, you could overclock a slightly cheaper FX-4 to get the same performance as the i3, but then you would need an after-marktet heat-sink which makes it more expensive than the i3 anyway.

As GPU's go, for WoW the Nvidia one at each price point is usually faster (unlike in most games) I.E 770>280X, 760>280, etc.
 
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A cheap (hopefully) anniversary edition unlocked Haswell Pentium dual-core CPU plus overclocking the nuts of it will eat any locked i3 or i5 for breakfast if the system is specifically for WOW only.

Depends if it has hyper-threading though, WoW suffers with <3 cores.

*EDIT*

My bad, I forgot it's AMD CPU's only that suffer in WoW with <3 cores, Intel are fine with two or more.
 
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