Help a gal out! I have $500-$600 to buy a PC that will run WoW Classic at mid level graphics. I’ve never built a computer before so a premade option would be best. I am so lost looking online by myself. I dont want to spend that kind of money for something that will hardly run the game. TIA!
I’d recommend anything with a Ryzen in it (cpu) and for graphics maybe a rx-580 you could probably get both of those in a prebuilt for about $600 if you dig around. That’ll get you ultra graphics on wow with a 1080p monitor.
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I build people very cheap PCs by buying towers from surplus property. Towers with 4th gen i5 and i7 can be had for $75 to $100. I then put a graphics card that uses under 75 watts on the PCIe slot. Something like a GTX 1050.
Here is a youtube link to a cheap build, he has another for $500
google “$600 Gaming PC Build Guide! (2019)”
Browse this site for some good builds with part links:
pcpartpicker dot com
Unfortunately Blizz blocks links.
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A pre-built PC that can handle WOW for $500-600?
That’s a tough call, but if you save another 150-200, I know you can get a pretty good system on Newegg.
Examples:
https://www.newegg.com/cyberpowerpc-gamer-xtreme-99001/p/N82E16883230513
https://www.newegg.com/asus-rog-strix-gl10cs-nh561/p/N82E16883221575
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Just checked around for you… There are several on bestbuys website like I recommended and within your budget. I’d just search on there “gaming desktop” and you’ll find them.
Just make sure it doesn’t say Intel HD integrated graphics card (or similar) and has 8gbs or more ram and you should be okay with the above suggestion. 
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For that price it’s going to be hard to get something with any kind of decent quality. I’d do some reasearch on “value” builds for gaming PCs. $600 is defintely doable for a decent quality gaming computer that could probably run classic on high settings.
And building is easy. Your CPU fits a specific socket. Your RAM comes in a specific type. Your GPU and your drives all connect through a certain type of connector. Just make sure that the one you buy matches what your motherboard says it supports. Then it’s literally matching shapes and colors.
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If you want simplicity just go to Amazon and click the following.
Select New (I would personally never buy a used PC.)
Select 8gb RAM minimum
Select Dedicated Graphics
Enter your price range
Now search through them. The other variables tend to be more all over the place, but those things you want at least, and it’ll give you a good starting point. I’d also recommend filtering for 4 stars and up, but sometimes that can filter out actual decent buys that have no rating yet.
I did it, and see several decent options on the first page. You’re just looking to run Classic on mid range graphics, so you won’t need a beast by any means.
*NOTE: You don’t necessarily have to buy it FROM Amazon. They have tons of sellers that use them, and it’s an easy way to find a PC. Then you can do some quick searches for the best source, preferably the manufacturer as long as the price is comparable.
**One more note, a 128GB SSD is plenty if all you put on there is WoW Classic and your operating system. (It may not be, or will cut it much closer if you also have retail installed.) Most crap you can just put on an HDD. If that’ll save you a few bucks. Every dollar counts on a budget. 
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Like some others in this thread i could list my current PC specs to flex my e-peen and believe me when i say mine is extra, extra veiny.
The biggest favor you can do yourself when building all of this is getting a SSD. Too many times ive seen people build a rig with a standard $20 western digital sata drive and wonder why their boot / load times in and out of games were still horrible.
Have fun and Gluck with the build!
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I am looking at this right now
Processor
Intel® Core™ i3-9100F 3.60GH
Graphics Card
AMD Radeon® RX 560 2GB
Motherboard
ASRock H310CM-DVS
Memory
2x 8GB XPG DDR4-2666
Total 16GB Dual Channel Memory
Power Supply
500 Watt Standard Power Supply
Operating System Storage
Patriot Burst 240GB 2.5in SATA3 SSD
not sure if this will do?
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That would definitely run WOW.
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^^
That’ll do, gnome. That’ll do.
*Out of curiosity I checked the benchmarks and that’s actually reeeeeally close to the PC I built back in 2016 that I’m still using 4 years later.
GTX 960 and your RX 560 are really close, almost identical big picture, and my i7 6700K (not overclocked) and the i3 9100F are rated pretty darn close too. I also have 16GB of RAM.
So from someone with a very similar setup performance wise, I tested for you just now and on max settings I am getting 70-84 FPS running around Org in front of the bank, which is the busiest area.
That’s probably as intense as the load will be for you outside raiding, and that’s on max. I turned it down to 5, mid range, and shadows down to low, and it went up about 10-15 fps.
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thank you so much!
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The game is not very intensive on a computer, any build from today would be good. If you can wait, do so since the pc market is about to be discounted heavily every week. check dell / slick deals and etc.
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Soon as it drops low enough I wonder if the bitcoin farmers will drive it back up again. lol
I built my last PC just before that happened.
I got the gfx card on sale for $129
The next month it was near 300 same card and kept going up
RX 580x 8g
Now they are finally back down in the $150 range
Yeah, i upgraded my wife’s gfx card and RAM around that time and about threw up at the increase.
I bought the exact same RAM (from same seller, I just “purchased again” from my order history) and it was about double the price… over a year later. lol
Funny thing.
At the time, i was trying to do the PC on extreme budget.
So instead of going with a ryzen5 1600x or 1700x i went with the 1500x
figured i would spend out a bit extra on the video instead, found a nice asrock motherboard, and waded through the 10,000 ram offerings.
Kind of worried about other people saying you will out grow that cpu in a month.
And yet, i have yet to really make it work hard or hit it’s limitations
I use HD LCD tv’s for monitors
One because they are versitile, Two because they are big and easy on my old eyes, and Three because people just dump them on craigs list for 20 or 30 bucks
So i lock refesh at 60Hz anyways.
Portable WOW is another story
Potato DeLL E5430 with game locked at 20fps cause it cant do any more
but its good enough for classic
Yeah I heard similar because this was just before the 1080 came out. Here we are 4 years later and my little 960 is still getting it done! lol
Of course, to many people “outdated” means anything but the latest while most games can run on components several generations old. If gaming companies had requirements that forced people to use the latest and greatest, they wouldn’t make any money.
400 fps bench is cool and all
But i cant see 400 fps, and my screen can not refresh at 400Hz
so it is kind of useless.
Even 100fps gets annoying to look at because it looks like someone is inside the monitor shredding the screen when the sync doesnt match
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