Buying a laptop to play classic when it comes out

WoW Classic WoW Classic General Discussion
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I’m looking into buying a HP Pavilion gaming laptop. It’s the 15Cx0056wm laptop.
It has the intel i5-8th gen
1tb hard drive
2.3GHz processor
8GB ram
Windows 10

Would this run BFA and classic when it comes out? It doesn’t have to have max setting. Just want to run good graphics and have very little lag.

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WoW is a CPU heavy game so the processor should be fine (until you get to 40v40 and those situations you might hit some “lag”).

I’m going to assume the laptop just has integrated graphics and not its own dedicated GPU. Understanding you will just have to have multi sampling set low as well as most graphics for it to run smoothly, which is usually more beneficial then animations.

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How would I tell if it has integrated graphics? It is running the nvidia gtx 1050i. I forgot that part

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Not sure what the I is but a 1050 GTX is a fairly good graphics card, you would be able to turn up those fireballs a little bit more with it and some distance finder too!

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Sorry it’s the gtx 1050Ti.
But overall I could run some decent graphics with minimal lag?

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Yeah, that laptop should be able to run Classic just fine. Keep in mind the textures in the game are at a much lower resolution so it shouldn’t be anywhere near as demanding as Retail.

However as a suggestion. I would consider getting a 512gb ssd (solid state drive) rather than a hard drive of any kind. That is the single biggest upgrade one can make to a computer. It won’t help get higher fps moment to moment, but everything else will be faster. You will boot faster, load programs faster, have shorter loading times in games. Plus the additional advantage of have no moving parts to fail (a big issue for laptops since they often get used in less than stable conditions), and they weigh less.

I would probably never buy a laptop without an ssd in 2019. The good new is however even if HP doesn’t offer a model with an ssd it is typically a pretty easy upgrade that most people can do on their own (follow a youtube video), and I would recommend doing a clean install of windows anyway as HP laptops come with a lot of bloatware. Ssd’s are pretty cheap nowadays too which is a plus.

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You can also run classic in a “classic” graphics mode which should give you an authentic experience and allow your pc to run it with relative ease.

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You’ll be fine. Maybe might be able to run it at max with the new settings but you’ll have them at a comfortable level.

This. You could get by with a 256 or even a 128gb if you utilize external storage (may not need if just gaming w/ wow). An SSD will be helpful anytime the computer runs WoW initially, load screens will be lightning fast, and the overall health of you computer will last longer too.

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If you’re buying a laptop for Classic, to do it right you need a Dell XPS M1730 World of Warcraft Edition…

https://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/dell-reveals-xps-m1730-world-of-warcraft-edition/

You can still find these on ebay on occasion for a few hundred bucks; but talk about the authentic experience. :smiley:

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See I would go with 512 just because my rule of thumb is that storage is never a problem till you run out of it. 512 is a (relatively) safe number for a laptop imo.

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They are quite a bit cheaper now a days. When I got my first SSD it was around $2.50 a GB. Now I can find a 512gb for like $50 online.

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That laptop is fine. My travel laptop is an Acer Nitro 5, core i5 8300H, gtx 1050ti, m.2 ssd, 16gb ddr4, and it runs modern wow at max settings around 100FPS in crowded areas at 1080p.

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I bought an Asus RoG gaming laptop seven years ago and it still runs WoW on Ultra settings with over 100 fps.

Any new laptop will easily run WoW on medium or better settings.

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This is True, before I bought my Alienware and my Acer Nitro, I had a Lenovo with an A12 apu that ran Legion pretty well at medium. Enough to level, do BGs (even the big ones), etc… with zero issues.

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This machine will do the job just fine! If you want to look at comporable priced models, I would suggest the “suggest a laptop” subreddit. They have a guide at various price points. WoW isn’t a very demanding game these days. You could play on a 1440p 144hz monitor with a 1050ti. No worries my dude.

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Hey, you should get what I got. GPD Win 2, runs WoW on high settings and the PC fits in your pocket.

You guys don’t have GPDs?