I know this may be a dumb question but I’m not very knowledgeable about PC hardware. I’m about to get a laptop with the rtx 3050 which I know is very good. But it has the Intel i5 11th gen processor and I’ve been told Intel isn’t good. But is it enough to run wow well without any lag. My current laptop is 10 years old and not made for gaming so I know it’s an upgrade either way. I’m just more or less curious on what graphic level I can play at with it
lets just say you’re gonna be playing on max settings
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That is not true. They are one of the two major processor makers for computers and most computers you buy use Intel.
I just replaced my 9 year old laptop as well. You will be fine and will enjoy just how fast things run now!
If you get a laptop - be sure to get a cooling pad for it with an active fan. Heat is the enemy of gaming laptops.
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That’s a silly thing to say about one of the leading processor makers in the market…
Intel i5 11th gen is a perfectly fine mid-range processor.
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personally I use a Intel Core i9-10900K with my Zotac 3080 GPU
Yeah I was confused when I was told they weren’t good. I said if they weren’t good they wouldn’t sell. I just wanted to get a grasp on how good it was. My current laptop is an Intel but it doesn’t have the graphics for wow. It’ll play classic fine but there’s a big gap in the requirements there
There are people who would debate Intel vs AMD forever. I bought an Intel when AMD was considered the ‘right’ choice for my desktop. My newest laptop has an Intel 7, just because I’m partial to the 7s over the 5s.
Intel is pretty solid. The people who debate this usually are going to the extremes of what a computer can do, which Warcraft doesn’t need so your gameplay will not be affected.
It’s also a game of leapfrog. One week one will be a bit better or the other one has some chip/driver issue. Both are good choices.
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Yeah my current laptop lags unbelievably bad on wow. I’m stuck just playing classic. Which I don’t have a problem with I just want to play retail lag free too lol
Usually that sort of lag is going to be a factor of several things. Assuming the network isn’t an issue, Graphics card and graphics card memory is a big one. Computer memory (the RAM, not disk space) is second, for a new machine I’d recommend 16GB. Likely you can manage with 8, but nothing less.
CPU is also a factor to some degree. A 9 year old machine is likely suffering across the board, especially if it’s a laptop.
It honestly depends on the generation of the hardware. There was a period where AMD was strictly on top, which was quite unusual, the prices were better, then performance was better. But that is changing.
WoW doesn’t use a lot of cpu cores, single thread speed is more important than max core counts on this game.
Can’t post external links, Google “12gen i5” and the first link should be Intel’s spec page for the i5s
An i5 with 16GB of RAM is more than enough for WoW.
That Vid card is fine as long it’s not 2K/4K resolution.
Focus on a SSD/M.2 drive, as this will massively improve performance.