I am checking for a Cheap PC for my son to play wow
Spec Xeon 3440 @2,5ghz
4gb Ddr 3
Geforce gtx 750ti
Would that be enough?
Thankfully WoW is VERY scalable downwards. With this setup the game would have to be played on very low settings tho and the low RAM would make it chug alot.
If it’s a wow machine, the most important thing is your CPU and RAM. GPU will barely be used. This setup will give you probably 40 FPS on low settings. Depending on budget, I’d throw an extra £60 on a better CPU/8GB of ram and you’ll see a massive improvement.
Is the hard drive SSD or an HDD? I used to run wow on a HDD and it was miserable. The SSD option is slightly more expensive, but it cuts loading screens by around 90% on my machine, also boots up in seconds
Can it run it? Yes, but on very low settings,
Like others said Ram is important so i would definitely get a 8GB RAM.
However If i was you i would just invest a little bit more on a better CPU for the meantime, just to get playing and in couple months get an extra 4GB Ram and just stick in to the PC (its easy)
No? XD that’s garbage
4gb of ram? Barely enough at the end of wotlk.
750 ti? Released at the end of MoP and garbage even back then.
That xenon? Is that even from the last decade bro
As others have pointed out, if you can get an additional 4GB of ram to put in there, you would see a large improvement. Everything else is fine for WoW - you will probably not be able to run it on max settings but it will run perfectly fine in general.
DDR3 Ram is pretty cheap nowadays. You will find a 4GB stick in second-hand computer shops or ebay for about 10-15 Eur depending on where you are. In the very worst case your computer is containing 4 x 1GB with all slots used and you’ll have to buy two sticks.
I used to run WoW on a ThinkStation E30 with similar hardware and an even weaker GPU than that. It was fine.
It’s really not garbage. It’s a completely fine computer that is enough for most tasks including very light gaming.
It’s from 2009 (and was in active production until 2012) - not much has happened in CPUs in the past 10 years to be fair. Compared to a current i5 we are talking roughly 60% single-core improvement. 
Very, very wrong here. I had an i5 2500k overclocked to 4.2ghz, and it was at 80~100% playing WoW (all 4 cores combined). Mind you, this CPU is from 2011 and was a pretty good one. Once I built my new PC with a ryzen 5 2600, now I’m using 17~20% max.
That is fine for low settings, though mechagon might be a bit choppy.
I don’t know what’s your budget but you can get something with 8gb of ram and an ssd for fairly cheap, which is the most important thing otherwise loading screens are pretty heavy
Yes, it’ll run WoW.
Won’t run it well, but it’ll run WoW.
You greatly underestimate how much 60% is when it comes to CPUs
I think it’s more that you overestimate a lot how much power WoW actually needs.
Works on my ~110 Euro Chinese noname netbook with a Core m3 just fine as long as I don’t do Alterac or Raids, and we’re talking a CPU that is worse than what you find in most Smartphones. A 2009 mid-range Xeon will be enough for WoW.
A game is unplayable if it doesn’t run at 2k 144+ fps, high settings
Your argument is invalid.
You can probably start the game and enjoy your sub 30 fps gameplay on the lowest graphics. Technically playable, but I’d say that it is unenjoyable. Your computer would have trouble running any game released in the last decade.
If you actually want to play computer games, I’d recommend saving up for an upgrade. 500 euros is enough for a decent machine if you buy parts, especially used ones. Then again, I don’t know where you’re from, since 500 euros can either be very little or a lot depending on the country and your personal situation.
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