Here are the specs for the new pre-built PC I’m thinking about buying. I’m not very conversant with computer components, so thought I would ask you all what you think it’s performance on Shadowlands will be like, and if it’s a good price.
Ryzen 7 2700 8 core 4.10 ghz
256 SSD 1 TB HDD
16 GB RAM
GTX 1070 8GB
Windows 10 Pro 64 bit
it cost just under a grand
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Lot of numbers, it’s gotta be good
It will do.
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I wouldn’t buy such an old GPU. Invest a little more to get a 2060 super or a 2070
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Check the specs and look them up on PC part picker so you can see how much of a mark-up it is.
Seems pretty alright for under a grand, though. Question is if theres a better deal.
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Like others have said, it will do. The hard drives are pretty small though. 256mb SSD will cover your windows install and WoW and that will be about it. And 1tb HHD is weird these days. A 2tb costs like $10 more. You can always add more down the road though if you play multiple games.
That build is fine, pre built for less than $1000, I would get it if I was looking to get a prebuilt.
But I’d highly recommend another SSD in addition or even replacing the 1TB HDD. They’re easy to install so you could buy it separate.
The SSD will be mostly filled with your Windows installation you wont have a ton of room left, WoW will end up on the HDD which does suck for WoWs load times.
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FYI that 256 GB drive isn’t as bad as everyone will tell you. Its not great and its easy enough to add another.
I am running on a 128GB drive. I split it in half and have the Mac OS on one half and Windows on the other. I have a Thunderbolt 3 external drive with a 480 GB SSD where I keep all things like data and games. I like the separation that way because I am known to completely wipe out my systems and try a new one like a new Linux build or a beta OS…
The SSD is good, you’ll want another one for sure these days. Or maybe 1 larger one that you partition.
The CPU is decent enough for the price range you’re looking at. A GOOD one these days would be $4-500 on it’s own. Same thing for the Vid Card only it’d be $3-400.
I don’t think 16 GB of RAM is enough for a new computer though, i’d want 32.
It will run Shadowlands and probably will do it well if you have enough storage to house WoW on the SSD.
My only concerns (some of which have been raised already);
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Is the memory frequency decent and is it dual channel? Ryzen CPUs are awesome but they couple best with dual channel high frequency memory (3200+ but as high as you can afford).
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If there is an option to replace the HDD with a smaller SSD it would probably benefit you. Gaming loading times especially on big games like WoW - you do really feel the difference.
Lastly I would just reconsider your workflow. What do you value most? High gaming performance but ok loading times? Value to performance overall? (E.G my GPU is much weaker but I’m able to load my workflow very fast thanks to high and fast memory with two nvme drives.)
You’ll want a bigger SSD for sure or another one at least.
I’d put OS and WoW on the same SSD, all the other stuff on a second SSD if you get one. They are cheap.
16gb of ram is perfectly fine. You’d have to be running two games and have 20 chrome tabs open to need more.
I have wow running and just opened 8 different intensive website tabs and am only using 9gb of ram.
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What a coincidence, i currently have 12 chrome tabs open, and a suspended Steam Game alongside WOW.
Not even kidding i chuckled because it’s almost like you were looking at my screen.
Edit: More to the point this is a new PC he’s buying. When you buy/build a PC you don’t plan for what you use RIGHT NOW, you plan for what you WILL be using. Games get more intensive every year. Don’t buy a PC you’ll have to replace in a year.
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Will it run wow yep, if all you really do is play wow that PC is fine…
I don’t disagree at all, but when on a budget and looking at the other things in that box, there’s much better upgrades he could make for extra $$ than just adding more ram. That is easy to add down the road if/when you actually need it.
You could go for Rtx instead but it will be costly…
In the end Rtx is what SL is trying and many future mmorpg and games…
You’d think so, but not always. When you buy a cheap PC one of the things they cheap out on is the Motherboard because it doesn’t make much of a difference performance wise. Of course if they don’t have dual channels, adding new Ram may not be easy or even POSSIBLE down the road.
As a note, he didn’t even LIST what Motherboard it has, i bet he doesn’t even know. The power supply can also be very important but that wasn’t listed either. Mind you power supplies can be fairly easily upgraded but if the case isn’t big enough for a decent one…
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Yeah I am running on 8 on my main machine and 16 on my “extra”. My main is a Mac mini and the RAM is not as easy to get to and I haven’t needed to put the 16 in yet.
8 GB is working for me. One day I will crack that case 
It’s not bad, the GPU is a few years old at this point and could probably use to be better. I have the step down from that and it works, but I’m thinking of an upgrade at some point.
Just wait and get the latest rtx cards
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