I’d agree with you to be cautious on this.
It’s decent for amateur computer builders, but not complete novices.
Your internet connection will actually play a big factor in doing this. Sure, your PC may be able to render everything, but if it isn’t getting info from the server fast enough, it’ll be bottlenecked. I personally wouldn’t spend on anything above an “i5” or “XX70” model card since WoW isn’t a high spec game. My “ancient” rig running an i5 6600k and 1070Ti can run the game smoothly with everything on high, but server stability/density coupled with my internet speed bogs it down.
The most important thing like every game is the graphics card.
Thanks all for the input…
Arth - that is what I am having the hardest time figuring out. I knew they would be pricey and I am not sure which one I want to buy that will be high end enough to still be good in a few years for like hardcore graphic FPS’s also and stuff. I dont want to skimp on this but also want to be reasonable. Looking at 3070ti to 3080 I am thinking
LHR (limited hash rate)
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Thanks, I looked it up and have a better understanding of it here now.
In fact what I was thinking of was in the article, turns out I was being a little cynical
A hash rate limiter was introduced with the RTX 3060, but unfortunately, it was quickly circumvented, including the accidental release of a beta driver by one of Nvidia’s partners that disabled the limiter entirely.
Wasn’t their bad.
Yeah they accidentally released a driver that turned off the LHR function.
I actually recently replaced a 1080 TI (amazing card BTW) with a 3080 (non TI) which is around a 50% jump - and it was largely due to the desire to take advantage of ray-tracing (which is beautiful) and DLSS (also beautiful) that being said - the Radeons have super-sampling coming on the scene to compete with DLSS but the games that use it are really limited…but its now open source - which will help super-sampling get in more games; provided devs want to go through the effort.
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Any gpu is hard to find right now and the price will be marked way up. It’s the absolute worst time to build a gaming pc in years.
If you live on the outskirts of Siberia perhaps but not in a normal household. I once had a roommate who played Call of Duty and he said “Dude I get 100 megs per second internet!” Thats great cause CoD will only use 3 or 4 of those at most so its nice to have all that extra speed doing nothing.
OP, can you post the specs of what you have now?
So, to put it simply you can look into some “premade” computers now on major websites (Acer Predator, HP Omen, ASUS ROG, IBuypower, Cyberpower, etc). This would be the immediate solution to what you have to offer (4k) which will provide you a very strong and effective rig.
This would also serve as a secondary purpose in gaining access to some of the more up to date hardware (NVidia 3000 series, and AMD 6000 series).
Additionally I don’t know your competency in creating a rig, as you are asking for advise in regards to what to purchase.
Simply put, with the money you are willing to put down I would expect you able to get 11000 Intel I9, or Ryzen 9, 5900+ in regards to CPU.
In regards to GPU you should be getting a 3080TI, 3090, or a AMD 6800XT to 6900XT that are currently available.
This should be in addition to 32GB to 64 GB of 3200-4000Mhz RAM (varying brands, Corsair is always good)
These should be baseline in what you are looking for. Otherwise at this point, it would be hypothetically cheaper to build your own PC but the issue is stock atm. So in turn cost goes up significantly due to scalpers.
In regards to premade just look to similar stats I have provided. Corsair, NZXT etc are major hardware brands and if they are in the premade, it would make the prospect greater.
I would say you want a 900 Watt+ power source, but I will say this is part of the issue premade will have, they tend to find the cheapest product available.
Either way I can say with 4k you will find a good premade, as long as you look for what I advised. I have seen a 11900K, Water Cooled, with a 3090 and 64 GB premade HP Omen, you just might have to wait a bit for stock.
GL in your endeavors, this isn’t a good market.
Also it important to note that CPU, GPU, motherboard and RAM all interact with each other. Be aware that if you buy a weaker CPU and stronger GPU you will bottleneck and vice versa.
I know I’m going against the grain and will probably be ignored but…
Don’t buy a computer yet!!!
The Why:
Basically we’re at a hardware inflection point, DDR5 is coming with all the next generation of processors as is universal PCIe 4.0.
This matters because it means that DDR4 while commonly available will eventually become a major holdback and a loss if you upgrade later. PCIe 4.0 is critical because it means that without it you’ll miss out on things like DirectStorage which based on the console implementations of the same will have a major impact on gaming.
OK I’m waiting what should I get and when:
- A graphics card with PCIe 4.0 on it, this means NVidia 30 series or AMD RX 6000 series
- An Intel Alder Lake (Not yet released) or AMD 6000 series CPU (not yet released)
- DDR5, don’t get caught in the DDR4 trap. At least 16GB of ram, if not slightly more (I can’t believe I’m saying this). Favor two stick configurations, one and four stick configurations won’t perform as well.
- A PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD, DirectStorage doesn’t work with PCIe 3.0 in the current rev as best I can tell. It also doesn’t work with SATA in the current rev. or traditional hard drives.
I appreciate the post, but literally no clue what any of that means other than dont buy one yet heh
It basically means that we’re at a critical inflection point in hardware, if your current setup works… keep it going until the next gen CPUs drop.
o i c - ok thx - I think I might wait
Might I suggest starting with something like this?
It has builds at different cost levels. Might give you a good jumping off point.
LOL The op says he knows nothing about computers and you post this…
While I understand every word, I am betting the OP thinks most of it looks like Swahili. You aren’t wrong though 
I’d rather give the information and have the OP ask for the TL;DR than not give it at all. 
I totally agree, but it doesn’t make it any less funny to read it and picture his “WTF Face”? 
You don’t need to spend $4,000. Though if you do, you would get an absolute beast for a computer. You can easily get a very good desktop computer for $2,000.
I run Shadowlands on a 144HZ 1440p monitor on all max settings and it runs flawlessly. My computer is now somewhat old (3-4 years) and runs a GTX1080TI for a Graphics Card and an 8700k for a processor.
WoW isn’t that graphically demanding compared to alot of modern games. You still need a decent enough graphics card though, but not the top of the line.
This is just my recommendation, but if you’re looking for a prebuilt computer, look for something with atleast the following:
- RTX 3070 Graphics Card. 3080 would future proof it for quite a while but the 3070 is still very good for a much cheaper price
- Intel 10th or 11th generation processor (10700(k) or 11700(k))
- 16GB or more of RAM
- 1TB or more SSD
You could probably get a computer that has the above for ~$2,000 USD easily and it would last you for a few years being able to max everything out on WoW before needing to upgrade anything.
Also consider that certain architectures will likely be too old to run Windows 11 as we are seeing with the enticing older (but still pretty nice) processors that you might find shady vendors trying to offload to new people.