I have a new graphics card, 4K monitor, razor peripherals and SSD drives. I need the power supply, ram, motherboard and CPU and a Microsoft 10 license.
My PC died and I’m borrowing one I don’t have to give back until Christmas.
I had just bought a new video card and SSD drives to install when it died.
Anyway, I’m looking for recommendations. WoW is the only computer game I play.
I have a laptop I use for video conferencing.
Thanks for recommendations of what to look for and where to pick it up.
Realize a lot of change is coming. So appreciate your advice.
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So. Something like this:
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I have a cooler still in the box as well. And an external CD ROM drive.
come back in two months when new PC parts have launched and supply & prices have settled
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I had trouble finding a power supply for a decent price so I bought one from Best Buy. I would look there for that. They have a few good Corsair models. Windows 10 I would get from a certain site with a penguin mascot for $30. For RAM the sweet spot is DDR4 3600.
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This pretty much.
The low-end won’t change too much, IMO, but mid-range and above will be more complex.
If this is just for WoW then a Ryzen 3600 + b450 mobo (with onboard Intel NIC) is a sweet spot. Anything higher is much more expensive for small incremental gains. Anything lower is just not worth the few dollars savings assuming retail pricing.
RAM you can get pretty cheap for 16/32GB and call it a day.
PSUs are on sale right now as Amazon has their Prime sale going on.
If you want to wait like people are saying then you might see a fire sale on older Ryzen CPUs and get a cheaper 3600 on ebay for $100.
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Thanks. I’ll do that (come back in two months).
I really appreciate the reference to cheaper Win 10.
Ryzen 3600 + b450 —what settings (with a good video card) will that let me run WoW at?
Again, thank you everyone.
You can run Ryzen 3600 + B450 at 4K easy as long as your vid card can handle it.
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The 3600 has gone up a bit in price lately. It’s now mostly $199 everywhere.
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Antec started lowering the prices on some of their units, you can get the Antec Earthwatt Pro 650w for $95 on Amazon. It’s a re-banged seasonic focus swapping main caps from Nippon to Hitachi (still good). Only thing on bestbuy I see at similar value would the corsair cx650m for $95. It’s a fine PSU but the antec is better.
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The newegg link gives newegg .io/1823fd5 the sort of thing I’m seeing now.
3600 $199
Asus 570 motherboard $161 (which I understand is equivalent to a B450, but with wi-fi?
Corsair Case $69
16gb Corsair memory for $74
Thermaltake power supply 600 watt $57
$564.45 and I need to add Windows 10 and my Hyper 212 cooler, my SSDs, video card and peripherals.
And I can probably expect some prices to drop in the next two months. If I’m lucky.
Anyway, if I’ve misread the advice, let me know. I’m really quite capable of completely misunderstanding advice that is really clear.
What graphics card to you currently have and is there a Micro Center near where you live?
The graphics card is an 8gb XFS RX 580.
There is a Microcenter about an hour away. We have a Best Buy in town.
RX 580 won’t comfortably power the game at 4k - perhaps at very low settings, but that’s a 1080p card.
You can play at 1080p on your 4k display fine, though.
The 3600 will be good because when you eventually upgrade your rx 580 most of the gpus in the same price bracket will work fine with a 3600
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It may be worth the drive. They’ll have new CPUs for a lot less than anywhere else.
Thanks for the heads up on Microcenter and CPU pricing.
On the graphics, I’m good game wise with less than 4K. I only use 4K for word processing.
I understand the other graphics settings are processor driven and the reviews I read said with a good processor I’d otherwise be fine on graphics settings.
The review I read stated:
“ Low Vs Ultra Radeon RX 580 8GB Performance Review
The experience of playing World of Warcraft: Battle For Azeroth through a Radeon RX 580 8GB is going to return a consistently high 132 frame rate. Note that those results would be running at High and 1920x1080 screen res.
And so following those results you could of course play this at 1080p, but this GPU is somewhat wasted at that resolution. We would suggest running World of Warcraft: Battle For Azeroth at 4K Ultra instead, where the Radeon RX 580 8GB would still get 43 FPS at these performance hungry settings and resolution. When considering the GPUs release price, this comes in at $0 per Ultra 4K FPS or $0 at 1440p Ultra.
In summary, if you are looking to play World of Warcraft: Battle For Azeroth in Ultra then you have come with the right graphics card. The Radeon RX 580 8GB can chew through the graphical performance needs of the game with relative ease. 1080p Ultra will return 95 frames, then the larger screen resolution of 1440p can deliver 72 FPS, with the 4K resolution seeing 43 FPS in Ultra as well.”
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I haven’t tried 4k on the 580, but I did play the game on an rx 580 for a while during legion. With settings adjustments, I was able to mostly hit 144fps outside of places where is cpu limited anyway
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I tested a 2600x + RX 580 on BFA at 4K. 4K was def slower than my 1080 TI and VEGA 64 noticeably.
However you can enable 1080 + RIS on the 580 to hold you over for the future.
Even if Microcenter is 1 hour away it might be worth it to either go there or have Best Buy match the prices.
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If you still have your old windows licence/serial you can use that for your new build, just might have to call Microsoft up to explain your PC fried and you are replacing the mobo.
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Thanks. That actually happened.