If i’m looking to buy a refurbished desktop just for classic TBC what specs for gpu and graphics card do you recommend and do you all have a trusted website you buy your pc stuff from?
I’m currently using an ibuypower i7-4820k @3.7ghz nvidia gtx 770 that is dying fast
Your i7 quadcore running at 3.7GHz is fine. Your GTX 770 is woefully outdated. You can pick up a cheap 1080TI off ebay or something. A lot of people upgraded to the RTX2080s or RTX3080 series in the past 1-2 years flooding the market with pretty nice 1080 series cards for dirt cheap.
If you want a completely new rig, right now, it’ll cost you. Computer parts are SUPER expensive right now thanks to the Taiwanese chip shortage and various cryptocurrency mining operations. Like home-building, PC building is rapidly becoming prohibitively expensive. iBuyPower is not the most reputable, but they’re cheap. I used DigitalStorm years ago and they were wonderful, but pricier.
I’d recommend these specs for a 2021 baseline:
i9 quad or hexacore > 3.2 GHz
16GB of RAM (32GB is better future proofed)
At least a 650W gold PSU (may need more depending on GPU)
At least a GTX 1080 or equivalent (the 1080TI is a workhorse, man)
At least a 1TB SSD boot drive (grab like a 1TB Western Digital Black for storage)
Can do all that fairly cheaply if you’re smart, patient or lucky.
Edit: For parts, I use TigerDirect. Great customer service. Expect DOAs.
You haven’t been on ebay lately have you?
The new card shortage is affecting ALL prices, there’s nothing cheap about anything.
Also, if they’re just looking to play TBC you don’t need any of that.
I have specs like what you listed and get like 300 fps at max settings on 1440p, you don’t need that crap lol.
The new colorful iMacs are shipping soon…
Any semi-recenent mid-range CPU and GPU should do just fine. You’ll probably want about 8GB of RAM and a SSD, if you can swing it.
It’s all about the virtual memory with wow… go ham on the ram
I didn’t specify TBC, although OP did. You can play TBC on a toaster oven. I figured he’d want to play recent games, too. I have twice those specs and my rig struggles with some newer stuff.
I’d agree with what you posted then except for the i9, bit overkill
Best gaming processor for price atm is an AMD 5600x, costs like 250
Processor and GPU are what you should splurge on, imo. The Intel® Core™ i9-11900K Processor can be gently overclocked to like 5.2 GHz. It’s about $500. It’s way better than the AMD 5600x. Sure, it’s twice as much but it’s twice as good. And it’s future proofed. Things like RAM and GPUs are pretty modular. Easy to swap out. I try not to swap out CPUs…
At 5.2 OC (which most people won’t do) you’re talking like 122 vs 127 FPS in Border lands 3
Not worth the extra cost imo.
But you can heat your house with it.
The specs Stonecastle posted are overkill for TBC Classic, but is a fine recommendation for a mid-range PC if you want to play other games as well. Though I’d agree with considering AMD as the price to performance is better. Honestly even at the high end I think AMD is just all around better right now.
If it’s just about playing TBC and nothing else basically any PC will do. Your current rig should be able to handle it, unless you mean it’s literally dying.
As others have noted the biggest issue with upgrading right now is that GPUs are in short supply and tend to be expensive.
Even on ebay something like a 1080 ti might very well cost you as much as a 3070 would, if you could actually find one for MSRP value.
see, that’s where my Vega 64 comes in 
Hell, my (lightly) used 1060 is going for a stupid amount right now, I’d sell it I wasn’t still worried my jet engine of a vega 64 wasn’t going to die at some point.
I got some dumb luck on a GPU so I just upgraded my entire rig(which sorely needed it), but even my old first gen Titan that my last PC used is on ebay for like $200 right now.
I feel like we got some dumb luck on my wife’s 5600x, we got it for msrp at the time (250) and like the day after we started looking… .from walmart
To play TBC?
Buy a toaster and hook it up to a potato.
I ended up getting a 5800x and a 3090 both for basically MSRP after accounting for conversion to CAD since I’m in Canada.
Normally I would have went for a 3080 instead, but somebody cancelled their order like 5 minutes before I walked into the store and they offered it to me.
Really not a good time for this if you can wait because the market is in another draught. Video cards are sold out and overpriced again. Personally I run off a GTX 1660 which I got before classic relaunched. Runs the game just fine. But 250$ cards are going for 500-750$ right now. Really not a good time to shop.
If you need a fast solution, you should probably just buy a PC that’s in stock. This for example is a great PC for 1350$.
AMAZON - Acer Predator Helios 300 Gaming Laptop, Intel i7-10750H, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU, 15.6" Full HD 144Hz 3ms IPS Display, 16GB DDR4, 512GB NVMe SSD, WiFi 6, RGB Keyboard, PH315-53-71HN
World of Warcraft was actually the first major game native on Apple Silicon. It should run great on the new iMacs.