Okay cause I didn’t know if that $280 met the required specs listed in WoW website. Would the FX 8320 build be able to get higher than medium? That one seems to exceed all the recommended specs
I had a fx 8350 starting at MoP
By the time Legion was out, it was horrible at fps, even worse for BfA imo
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Recommend specs says FX 8310 or later so I thought and FX 8320 ( I’m assuming is newer) would perform ok
No, dont get an fx cpu, thats tech from 2011 and even back then it performs 50% worse than what intel had back then.
Get any quad core i3 or i5 if you wanna be doing anything other than leveling in wow.
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Fact of the matter is all these sub $400 builds are only going to give you the same FPS that you’re getting right now. If you can raise your budget to $500 you can get something that will run well on medium settings and have the ability to be upgraded in the future. You will need at least a Nvidia 1030 GT or an RX 560. If you live near a microcenter I strongly suggest checking them out.
There are some options on Newegg. Search - HP Gaming PC Desktop NVIDIA GTX 1050 TI, Intel Core i5, Windows 10, 12GB RAM, 1TB It’s $435 and will get you medium settings. My friend just bought this desktop and is very happy with it. She mainly plays FFVIX but is getting 50-60fps on med/high settings.
Bro, enough. You’ve made your point, and it’s getting old that you keep acting like everybody’s out to make the OP spend more money. You get what you pay for, that’s life.
Hahahahahahahaha… what.
Like others are saying, even when they were current the FX series wasn’t keeping up with Intel due to architectural and design differences. You’d be getting a mediocre computer because of the processor.
I can’t exactly tell you much about this one, except the video card is pretty bad. It’s an old model, and was pretty mediocre when it was current gen. You might be able to make it work by getting a cheap current video card, but we don’t know who the reseller is, or much of anything about the other specs, mostly the PSU.
This, basically. You can spend less now, but you’ll pay more in the nearer future by doing that.
pcpartpicker. com/list/QrssyX
This totally discredits you. I have personally played WOW BFA on 4-5 settings with just the i5 6500 and no card. The card was on its way in the mail… The integrated graphics are fine for lower settings with that chip… The guy has a budget and money doesnt grow on trees… Help the guy where he is or stay out of it.
There is also one with an i7 3770k for $125 dollars that I could add a video card to. I’m just not sure about adding a video card cause I assume the cpu has to be able to keep up with the gpu or something
I’m sure it was fine for low settings when that was current. It wouldn’t be fine now.
We’re helping him. You’re not really helping him.
No, this discredits you, because it’s outdated information that is of little value to us in this conversation.
You’ll need to be careful about something like that, because odds are it’s someone reselling a used rig. If you can link it here, that’d help us identify what it is and if it’d be a risky purchase.
They’re just OfferUp posts, so the exact listening are “evea 1050 ti 4gb has 16 gb of ram has a 1 tb hard drive and a 500 go hard drive I7 processer it has an Alienware system and runs windows 10 64bit ”
And
“'ve run even the most recent games on this rig at frame rates over 120FPS.
Inside is 16 GB of DDR3 RAM, an i7 3770k I’ve got overclocked to 4.2Ghz stable with a 3rd party cooler on it. Runs Windows 10 on a 1TB HDD. The only thing this rig lacks at this point is a video card”
Good luck with your search OP. Im out. I said my piece.
Thanks for the help man.
Friend just picked up
Custom Gaming PC Intel Core i7 3.4GHz 8GB Ram AMD Radeon R9 270 SSD HDD WIFI
For $300
If you can find an old Haswell pre-built or someone selling a combo on some hardware site that would be fine for WoW with a decent midrange card. I recently cobbled together a spare parts PC for fun. It has a Pentium G3258 overclocked to 4.7 Ghz paired with a GTX 1060, 16GB of DDR3 1600 RAM and an SSD. It runs BFA surprisingly well. With a 1920x1200 monitor I run it with a mix of 8,9 and 10 settings (high to ultra). With 4X MSAA I’m getting 60 FPS in world quests consistently. If you found any Haswell i5 with a GTX 1060 you’d be doing great. I recently saw a combo on Anandtech’s forums for $130 (motherboard, CPU and RAM).
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