PC specs Advice!

WoW Classic WoW Classic General Discussion
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Anyone know of any good current CPUs that would do very well with Vanilla WoW?

I was grown up on Gamecube - even throughout the xbox 360 era - so i’m used to poorish graphics.
I have a RX 470 /w 750w Gold Standard battery.
These are the current components i’m keeping.

I’m switching to Intel from AMD cpus - so i’ll need a MB, CPU, Ram, and new a new SSD and Harddrive - Hard drive can be very small.
Currently have an FX 6300 - and it is showing its age every passing day.

Ideally, i’d like to be on graphic setting of 5 - with, essentially, very good performance in big fights that are bound to happen throughout the world.

Any advice on the remaining components?

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WoW in general has only gotten even rudimentary multi core support so any modern i5 processor from intel is fine if you want to overclock just remember to buy one with a K after the number. Motherboard I won’t go listing all here but z390 chipset is fine if you go with 8th or 9th generation processor.
16 gigs of ddr4 ram clock speed regarding vanilla doesn’t have massive meaning here but higher is obviously better. SSD and Mechanical drive I personally prefer kingstons SSD drives and seagates mechanical ones but it really isn’t a big deal as long as it’s not an entirely unknown manufacturer.

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Cheers, Boss.
Thanks for the Quick response!

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I5-8400 lower Intel. I recommend the i5-8600k or newer i5-9600k though. Far as I am aware WoW isn’t very GPU intensive, so I would shoot for a decent budget card like the RTX 2060. Or wait and see the new 1160 that Nvidia is gonna release.

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Yes both of those i5 processors would be suitable.
And he already stated that he has a RX 470 as GPU and he is going to stick to that. And indeed as WoW and especially classic is not GPU intensive it should be very much enough for it.

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Roger I see yes that GPU should hold up. Graphics aren’t why we play the game right :smiley: Yeah getting a simple SSD to play it on with 8-16gb DDR4 ram. Good to go

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Wish they’d just cell-shade the game

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The i5-8400 would be fine for WoW. You probably don’t need the versions with the “k” on the end unless you intend to overclock. I wouldn’t consider the RTX 2060 a budget card considering it’s $350-$380 and outperforms GTX 1070 Ti (which is considered a bit above a budget card). Lastly, the new Nvidia card is rumored to be the GTX 1660 not 1160.

That said, the specs Normathord is recommending would make a great machine for WoW and future proof you for awhile. I’d guess it would cost you around $1,400 buying everything new. I’d recommend it too.