Okay, I have a monitor and a crappy laptop I have been using to play wow. Like really crappy.
I have a budget of 1000 or less. Any suggestions to get the most bang for my buck? I have been out of the PC market for a very long time as I have picked up wow for the first time in many year. I’m just just sick of the frame rates and terrible graphics. Oh! And the overheating!
You’re going to be hard pressed to find anything decent at this price point.
Consider going at least 1500 for something servicable.
I went on a few PC builder websites hoping to disprove this, but nope, it’s gone up since I bought mine last. A lot of the custom gaming PC builders have gone up recently, maybe due to gas prices (shipping affects a lot of pricing) or the stortages we’ve had of chips and materials.
With your budget, you might just be better off getting something from Bestbuy or Walmart. WoW doesn’t need the best computer, but I’d advise against a laptop if you’re doing any hard content (big screens and lots of addon space helps in harder content). All that said, there was an $849 on iBuypower. Also, the custom builders usually have sales around big holidays like Labor day or Black Friday.
Yeah I have noticed that 1000 is not going to get me super far unfortunately. I wasn’t sure if anyone has found a secret sleeper anywhere.
Sorry to give that news to you, but yeah, 1500 is as close to entry level as you’re gonna get.
You might get lucky and find something online in your price range, but good luck.
I purchased a full replacement PC last summer, and I was pushing 3k, and it’s only “above average” at best, somewhere between “mid-range” and “top of the line”.
Top would have cost my in the 5K range. Lowest I could build that was serviceable was in the 1500-1700 range somewhere.
You may just have to tough it out a little longer and save a little more (or you could try a payment plan, if you have decent enough credit and don’t mind payments).
If payments are ok, give CLXgaming a try.
Use 5GAMER2022 to bring it to $949
Get a friend with a Costco membership to take you there and take a look at their offerings in the store
About a year ago I got a 16" Lenovo Legion 5 Pro with a Ryzen 5800H and RTX 3070 for 1,050 there. They had it on sale for $500 off. Instant savings
Like you said. Sleeper deal. Costco is really the only place that has them and pricing on the website is different than in the store so you really want to visit your local store
There is a lot of terrible advice here. If you opt for used parts, you can do even better than the $975 set out in this build, using new prices. Cheers. Total comes out to around $960
RX 6600 XT - $310
Ryzen 5 5600X - $180
Fuma 2 CPU Cooler - $66
ASRock B550M Phantom Gaming 4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard - $90
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory - $73
TEAMGROUP MP33 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive - $68
Antec DF700 Flux ATX Mid Tower Case - $100
EVGA B5 550 W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply - $70
If you can build your own computer a Ryzen 5 5600/5600x or i5 12400 build is still possible for under $1000 easy GPU will probably need to be under $400 budget but 6600XT, 3060, or the Sapphire Pulse 6700 (non XT) 10gb are still great performing cards.