Eh… anything people are recommending will. The bigger issue is they won’t have the TPM enabled by default. Which for non-technical folks is a non-starter. Yet another reason to wait.
Yeah and some decent but older boards actually require a TPM be purchased and installed (easy enough and fairly uncommon - but it happens)
Start with the video card then.
i can help with that, you first of all really need a PC that uses SSD M.2 drives, no less than 1TB, those things put out so little heat and is so fast, even on a bad day your PC feels fast, need no less than 4GB of video memory, no less than 16GB of RAM, make sure the video card/PC can use HDMI, some companies will cheap out and you won’t find compatible monitors for your PC if it only uses DVI monitor cords, no longer need sounds cards as they are now useless with today’s built in audio in motherboards
Nows pretty much the worst time ever to upgrade, especially for the gpu.
Good luck. Do lots of research before you buy anything, if you are building it.
My graphics card no longer meets the minimum specs for Shadowlands and I haven’t been able to find an upgrade that I can remotely afford.
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I play on 2560x1440 max settings and 165hz on a 1080 ti, and this build was $1800 like 4 years ago. You could very easily run WoW on those specs with a new gen card Under $2,000.
Don’t even bother trying to build one. Go to NZXT website and buy ANY pre-built system with an RTX3080ti in it. That system should run you about no more than $1,700 to $1,800. Building your own right now is way too expensive thanks to all the Scalpers right now.
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I play the game on a I7-4790k with a Zotac 770 just fine with a 200 Mbps. Want to upgrade the entire system, but man have prices gotten stupid for components. Use to be the processor and motherboard where your two biggest purchase followed by GPU, but now a GPU is and can be twice or more then you pay for the other two combined.
What this guy said. Or if you have a Microcenter anywhere near you, they usually have nice prebuilts there as well, and usually cheaper than most websites.
Another good reason to wait a few months if you can is that intel is coming out with 12th gen CPUs, speculated as early as october. These will allegedly be much stronger than current 11th gens.
In the meantime, keep making the list of CPUs and GPUs, look at comparison videos, and keep looking at prices so you get a general idea of what they’re all worth. If you’re going to spend a lot of money for a desktop, make sure you get a good value.
Wow, twist of fate… please tell me what you guys think of this build… my next door neighbor was a hard core gamer a few years ago but he stopped for work… and he has a “monster PC a few years ago” he claims… here are the specs (best i can understand):
- intel core i7 6950X 3.00ghz 10 (or 20) core
- NVidia Titan X (Pascal)
- Samsung SSD 950 Pro 512GB
- He isn’t sure how to check what the RAM is but thinks it is 64GB (anyone know how to check?)
This do OK or outdated? No idea what these parts are above. Will sell to me for $2,000.
and thank you to everyone for their advice and input. I read every post and visited every link. Learning a lot.
I’d run Speccy on it before I agreed to anything.
Great suggestion, done. he actually has it installed already:
Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i7 6950X @ 3.00GHz 49 °C
Broadwell-E/EP 14nm Technology
RAM
64.0GB Unknown @ 1066MHz (15-15-15-36)
Motherboard
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. RAMPAGE V EDITION 10 (SOCKET 2011) 53 °C
Graphics
DELL S3220DGF (2560x1440@59Hz)
4095MB NVIDIA TITAN X (Pascal) (NVIDIA) 59 °C
Storage
1863GB TOSHIBA DT01ACA200 (SATA ) 29 °C
476GB Samsung SSD 950 PRO 512GB (Unknown (SSD))
Optical Drives
No optical disk drives detected
Audio
NVIDIA High Definition Audio
Pass on that. CPU is very old.
Knows the feeling lucky I got mine new system last year before everything went nuts with video card costs…heck even the one I got has tripled in price since last May of 2020…
For my last computer I just bought a prebuilt as it was about $100 more than the video card that came with it. At times I regret not building my own system but it was so easy and cheap and don’t have the regrets most people express about performance or stability (I’m not into intense graphics games anyway).
Won’t run windows 11, just an FYI… so I would save the money. Also a Pascal graphics card is 700 series equiv, a 1070 might out perform it…
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-specifications#primaryR2
Damn, wont run it? And its only like 4 years old. See, that’s what I am afraid of buying a new computer. I would just rather spend the money and get a high end system at this point since I have the cash… idunno, thought this would be so much easier lol
This is why I said to wait in my original post in this thread. Things are at a point of heavy change. Wait for things to settle.
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