RTX 2070 Super is $500. 2080ti is ~25% faster.
RTX 3070 is $500. It’s supposed to offer similar or better than 2080ti performance, and improved RTX/DLSS performance.
So from that alone, you’re looking at more performance for the same money. If you want to enable RTX in WoW, you’ll want a 2nd generation RTX card.
Dell has their alienware and HP has their Omen gaming desktops. You can even try cyberpower. All would be cheaper and you can customize them all with the same parts but building it yourself would be the cheapest way to go and get the parts you need.
NZXT has a build service parts are at price plus like $50. I’d still wait for 3000 series.
Not only that, but Zen 3 and Rdna 2 are really damn close too. He should definitely hold off his upgrade for a few months.
There’s definitely going to be some advertised premades soon enough. Wait if you can, so you don’t miss out on PCIE 4.0 since Ampere also utilizes PCIE 4.0.
I would say if you don’t have a current PC to play WoW and you want to play now, I would get any of the suggested rigs above but hold out on the video card - maybe try to borrow a used 1050ti if you can just so you can play for the meantime. Once both NVIDIA and AMD have completed their announcements on their GPU lines, you can start to decide which GPU to get.
It’s rough. I personally would rarely ever buy a prebuild - there’s always just a lot of caveats.
I’ve been pushing the microcenter builds a lot because on paper they seem good for the money, but others have reported some issues with them that I can’t really like.
Invariably when you buy a pc, there’s going to be things that just don’t make sense from the consumer end, but do to the vendor end.
I’m getting this has better hardware than the $2400 pc you linked but $1100 cheaper and comes with 3 games including shadowlands and some game time
Bestbuy /cyberpowerpc-gamer-supreme-gaming-desktop-amd-ryzen-7-3700x
When you build a PC, you are in the business of maximizing performance and “pleasure” for your dollar. When you go pre-built, they are in the business of maximizing profit from you as are most businesses so I’m not ragging on them but people fail to understand that caveat sometimes.
I always recommend people to get the best CPU for you in a pre-built and minimize everything else because for the same price as their market-up inventory you can get better hardware off amazon/newegg.
techspot has a review of a HP omen for $999, Ryzen 3600, AMD 5700XT, 8GB ram, 256 SSD. It will play WoW at 1440p Ultra 60FPS+ (tomshardware has a $800 build it yourself system on their front page with a Nvidia gtx1660super, good for lv7 at 1440p) Take the saved $500, get a 1TB SSD for $100 and get a dual channel RAM kit for $60. Save the $340 and wait for supply and price to level out on the new Ryzen CPUs and Nvidia/AMD gpus and make upgrades then, when necessary.
Ryzen CPUs don’t scale well past 6c/12t so for the extra money over the 3600, the 3700x is an awful ROI chip. Techspot as the two chips equal in their gaming suite (2-3% difference), as does pcgamer, tomshardware, and techpowerup. So why pay $100 more for 3% better gaming especially when you will be GPU limited in many games at 1440p?