About 4 years ago I bought a gaming PC advertised as a World of Warcraft gaming pc and it was a massive improvement over my current one at the time and allowed me to play WoW in ultra settings in WoD and Legion, until BFA was released when I had to start lowering settings a lot just to be able to play the game on retail. Now I find that i’m once again in need of a new PC in order to keep up with retail WoW (classic is still great on max settings)
I have found the same company offering a updated version for Shadowlands and the specs are as follows.
I’m no good when it comes to PC specs and info like this and wanted to get peoples input on it. Or if anyone has any recommendations on any computers that would handle Shadowlands from elsewhere for a decent price of around £500-600 or at higher on finance.
I would NOT recommend getting an old chipset like this.
It barely supports the 3600 and will not support any future AMD CPUs like the upcoming 5000 series.
Also it only has 2 DIMM slots. So not much for upgrading the RAM.
Ryzen boards for the most part use daisy-chain layout which works better with 2 sticks, especially if you want to push them.
Pick 16GB (2x8GB) of 3600 MHz RAM (can be like 3800 and alike if cheaper or barely more expensive).
Ok-ish although right now before the launches of lower tier Ampere and RDNA2 you could look for RX 5700 XT on sale (and you get Shadowlands for free with it ) Or RTX 2070 Super if prices will drop (a lot).
Yeah but why throw away your old sticks if you can just add 2 more.
Also most people use 3200Mhz RAM anyways and that works fine with 4 Sticks.
Of course if someone wants to use like 3800+ RAM then he needs to stick to two DIMM slots.
The latency is also important, if the 3800 has a high CL then it won’t be even be faster than 3600 at a low CL.
Chipset is too low. I would try and go for the new budget B450-II chipsets that will support 3000 and 5000 Ryzens. Or go for a B550 or X570 at least.
PSU is fine for a 2060 but if you’re going to go for a newer 3070/3080 then you’ll need 750w minimal, which includes headroom as no one should run a PSU near to 100%.
Ryzen’s do better in two sticks of ram. They still have issues in getting to that fast overclock (DOCP) if you use four sticks. Blame AMD for their memory controller, they really need to sort that out to support actual four dimms.
) Or RTX 2070 Super if prices will drop (a lot).