Hey old pals, I was wondering if my old pc would still run wow? It’s an hp 580-023w
i5-7400
8gb ram
gtx 1060 - 3gb ram
Yes yes I know it’s old, but so am I and pc specs aren’t my strong suit. I’m guessing it probably wont run retail, but could it still run one of the old vanilla versions of the game?
Yep, it will run Retail on the lowest settings. The CPU is just above the minimum, but the RAM amount is the minimum.
Make sure you have about 100GB free on a drive, and after adding 100GB to it, make sure it still has 15% free space left.
Not yet mentioned, but by “drive” Blizzard means “Solid State Drive”. The minimum specs for Retail require an SSD. Spinning rust will give unsatisfactory performance.
Ah yep, good catch. I forget that there are still HDDs spinning around in some builds.
Looks like that HP model is using an HDD, so it would need a newer solid state drive.
Edit: Fixed typo.
Wow I can’t believe with minimum upgrades (ssd), I could still play retail. Thanks so much for the replies!
It’s on my mind because I just helped a son put in a 2TB SSD to boot from in his 6-year-old rig. The 2TB HD he was using was pretty full, boot time was terrible, and his sizeable catalog on Steam was almost unplayable.
the non fancy ssds still use sata, but yeah its a 7200rpm hard drive in that system.
It’s just a typo/slip. “SATA” should have been “HDD.” Fixed in original.
The SSDs for that HP model will likely need to use SATA.
Just so you’re aware, your graphics card is I believe only just supported by WoW and having seen a mate with a similar system a few months ago I wouldn’t be going near any dungeons or going to major cities as it would be lag city for you and not enjoyable at all.
While it’s close to the min specs, I have one of those cards in another system and it runs dungeons and raids ok — as long as you don’t use 20 addons. If you keep a clean UI, it can handle dungeons on 4 or 5 (if it’s old content) and raids on 2 or 3.
I think the biggest battle will be the RAM. Not going to have the bandwidth for background apps with 8GB.
My point was that blizzard will eventually end support for that card sooner or later, possibly as early as next major patch or next xpac. He would be better off building a new system altogether.
Not everyone is in that place of privilege. Even if they end support, an SSD is all they right now. They can decide if they want to build or buy for the next expansion once it’s here. Blizzard doesn’t change requirements for patches, that would be impossible to support.
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