I just ordered these parts
450B Fatal1ty Atx k something motherboard…(thought about the steel legend, looks the same but was on sale)
Ryzen 3 3600g CPU (i think its second generation)
Gigabyte 570 raedon GPU
650 watt power of whatever was on sale for 50$
2 x 2 g ddr3 unbuffered ram 2x 4g ddr3 unbuffered ram (i dont remember speed, on sale on newegg) so 12g ram
i Terrabite FireCuda Hybrid SSHD
256 gig pci ssd x2 (putting windows 10 on one, Unbutu on the other, and WOW folders on em I think)
50$ case
hardwire fios (whatever the best speed i could get in the boondox was)
plug all that into what i have on hand to control it (all found used here and there)
g15 old school Logitech keyboard and 600 logitech mouse, Logitech software
Or depending on mood (and since the 600 is starting to double click)
k55 Corsair keyboard, Corsair Scimitar Pro, ICUE
2 x 24" dell monitors running in 1080, 1 36" Samsung also at 1080
(and maybe stream VR into samsung Note 8 with the samsung Vr headset thing, it does work).
Right now I can play classic fine, even raiding on my old crappy pc, but Retail even on lowest 1080 setting im lucky to get 10fps just in world, 5fps bgs, lots of freezes and dc’d (not playable). (even with razer cortex killing my os and services)
From what ive read, i THINK i could have even skipped the 570 GPU and used the Vega 11 onboard Graphics alone to play retail on like 2-3 setting, opinions on THAT as well welcomed. (i maybe should have gotten something like the Razen 5 2200 without graphics, but i didnt think i was going to be able to get the GPU until all the sale stuff, had already ordered it.)
My FIRST build? in 2004 so i could play one of those cool looking, brand new MOMMMAOMMO games, (what was the old acronym? there was 2 more letters, Massive Multiplayer something something) MMoMo?
2.4ghz single core socket A
256 ram i think, at least thats what i started at,
some random gigabyte low end MOBO (i had taken the velcro sample off the wall to look at it, and someone who worked there ran it out to my car, thinking i had forgotten it!!! )
Ridiculous DIY water cooler system with a 5 gallon bucket and a dollar storee fountain pump
cant remember what vid card, but it was 16mb
56k Dial up modem , Yea BABY! AOL only cost 20 cents a minute after 9pm!!
IBM 1994 Mechanical
very cool mouse…what was it???..FPS players liked it so much they reisuused it, one of the first optical mice…oh well.
HUGE Logitech Thumb Wheel mouse
DIY foot contoller, 10 buttons (FORGOT about that, THAT was handy as Fghg)
Running Windows…98 i think? 95? i dont recall.
Crazy to think, the CPU from that build cost almost as much as this entire build, over 350$ ( you could get a 1.9 for around 250$ if i remember right)
SO, without overclocking, will i get 60FPS while raiding at Setting 3 with that setup? (id be very happy with that). Ill start pushing it later, i didn’t pay for any of the warranty’s!
And post your first WOW PC build.