WoW Spec PC for £300-£350??

allosunshine · 14 Oct 2008 at 19:08

As the title says, is this doable??
Its for a family member who's a bit strapped for cash.

Thanks

just persia · 14 Oct 2008 at 19:12

Could you please give a yes or no to the following and I'll spec a pc for you.

Do you need:

Monitor
Mouse
Keyboard
Speakers
Operating System

Thanks

allosunshine · 14 Oct 2008 at 19:15

Sorry should;ve said, just the base station with OS.

just persia · 14 Oct 2008 at 19:41

It's a bit tight but it should play it with a pretty good fps rate (I read the reviews on the GPU and the WOW fps were 60+)

Also you can claim free postage because of your forum stats so it comes under budget.

Huw_Dawson · 14 Oct 2008 at 20:37

WOW PC?

I'm relatively sure that that will run WOW on high graphics no problem.

WOW isn't known for being graphically taxing - we're talking a game that is coming on for 4 years old.

(Sorry for being rude, but you're not the first person on the internet to ask this question - I'm relatively confident that you could find your answer on a quick trip to www.google.co.uk or your local friendly PC store.)

- Huw

EDIT: To be more constructive, the above build includes the OS. As WoW runs most excellent on the entirely free Ubuntu 8.04LTS, I'd recommend getting that and saving you money.

chainy · 15 Oct 2008 at 07:16

You forgot the Power supply in your build too, so you will need a little extra for that.

allosunshine · 15 Oct 2008 at 07:47

There's a PSU included with the case.

Skyboat · 18 Oct 2008 at 16:53

This spec should be nearly, if not better than the above one:

I would pick the ASUS barebones chassis but it only has a 300W PSU, 380W should be enough for the 8800GT.

Remember this is only to play WoW, so if he doesn't need a ton of hard drive space or burns a lot of CDs/DVDs then why spend the extra.

Clive37 · 18 Oct 2008 at 16:57

just persia said:
It's a bit tight but it should play it with a pretty good fps rate (I read the reviews on the GPU and the WOW fps were 60+)

Also you can claim free postage because of your forum stats so it comes under budget.

the E2180 is a great chip for the price

Guardsmon · 18 Oct 2008 at 17:06

I'd go with skyboat out of the 2. but if you really only want to play WoW go to an auction site or the MM and pick yourself up a rig for around £150 that would do.

WoW Technical requirements (from their site)
Recommended Specifications

Windows® System 2000/XP OS:

* Intel Pentium® IV 1.5 GHz or AMD XP 1500+ MHz
* 1024 MB RAM
* 64 MB 3D graphics card with Hardware Transform and Lighting, such as NVIDIA® GeForce™ FX 5700 class card or above
* Broadband Internet connection
* Two-button scroll-wheel mouse

Anything in the last 2 -3 years should be able to run that game with no problems!

Skyboat · 18 Oct 2008 at 17:14

To be honest, you are probably right given WoW's age. But ever since the BC expansion and I suspect even more so for WotLK, Blizzard have really messed up the performance of the engine that makes it run nowhere near that well on the original recommended specs (not that any games' recommended specs are ever precise).

I felt that WoW still didn't run as well as it should on my old XP 3200+, 6600GT, 2Gb RAM system last year at a res of 1280x1024, interface addons also make a huge difference to the performance on these kind of systems no matter how small you think they are.

It really all depends what else the OP is using it with.

fobose · 18 Oct 2008 at 17:30

I think persia's spec was spot on, except I wouldn't bother with a 3rd party cooler, and spend the extra money on the E5200 (still saving a few quid), and I would get the OCZ 2GB kit which is the same price.

I wouldn't pay £60 for Windows XP though, may aswell get Vista and buy 2GB more ram when you can afford it.

Gogl · 18 Oct 2008 at 17:59

If there is any chance that it will be used for other more challenging games then personally I'd try and stretch to this:

PowerColor ATI Radeon HD 4670 PCS 512MB

The 8800GT is a great card but I'm not sure the 256MB can cut it these days, it got absolutely caned in some benchmarks I saw vs. the 512, and I don't think it was at 'uber leet' resolutions, though I could be mistaken.