i5 6600k
BeQuiet Dark Rock 3 CPU Cooler
Gigabyte Z170x - Gaming 7 Mobo
Corsair Vengeance 2400MHz 16GB DDR4 RAM
EVGA 750 GQ PSU
120GB SSD
1TB 7200rpm HDD
Corsair 450D Case
I am able to purchase the above for £300
Would this be suitable to run WoW at high settings? I would OC the CPU.
Will be pairing with a GTX 1070 GPU.
that will easily do high at 1080P or above.
It will run the game easily on 1080p and you don’t need to overclock anything. I would however advise using a SSD for the game to improve load times and general responsiveness in some cases. 120GB SSD + 1TB HDD is kind of bad combo nowadays with low SSD prices.
For games that use a lot of disk access it goes like this, fast to slowest:
At the moment Gen4 M.2 drives are only on B550 and X570 motherboards. Gen3 M.2 are on Intel and AMD motherboards.
However, for the moment with generation 4 PCI Express, heat is an issue with the drives so you would be fine with generation 3 m.2 as those will load up stuff very fast and keep things running smoothly with games such as MMO’s and also games such as Elder Scrolls 5, GTA5 and others that need to load and unload various parts of a large world map.
You don’t need PCIe 4.0 SSDs for gaming, that’s mostly for content creation that explicitly needs such bandwidth. For average gaming even a SATA SSD will be a huge improvement over HDD, especially on access time to all the assets of the game.
To echo @bigkeg, my WoW install is currently driven by:
i5-4690K//32GB DDR3 1866//Gigabyte Z97X Gaming-3
and stored on:
250GB Samsung 840 SSD (system) disk
500GB Samsung 850 EVO (game install) disk
More than capable @ 1080p, potentially reasonable @1440p
EDIT:
PCI-e 4.0 SSD/NVMe don’t exist yet… afaik.
To be honest, Blizz will quote “Recommended” to get WoW as ‘minimally playable’ & “Minimum” to get the game onto a machine in the first place/at all… what end-users classify as playable is way above Recommended & highly subjective.
Thanks guys, the SSD will be upgraded at some point, but will be sufficient for WoW and OS initially.
It’s a second hand build but I figured at £300 its a bargain, since the case is worth £100 new, and the CPU second hand costs about £150 on Ebay alone.
I can then sell my Q6600 HD7770 rig to off set the cost of the purchase.
That’s why I said it would be best to just stick to PCI-E version 3.0 for time being. X470 chipset motherboard will be fine with a 3000 series Ryzen, you can put more money in for say a better GPU or more ram.
Considering GPU’s aren’t even using up all of x8 bandwidth yet on 3.0.
4.0 is just future proofing but it’s more expensive at the moment and it would load up WoW quicker but not sure it’s worth the price really unless you’re rich enough to justify it right now.
Most of the thinking behind getting ‘nose-bleed’ graphics cards for WoW is ungodly high resolutions &/or wall sized monitors… neither of which were ‘a thing’ back in 2004.
I haven’t checked but has even Blizzard worked on the UI to be easily scalable when trying to play it on a 4K monitor or soon these 5K/6K monitors coming out?
Only thing I saw once with someone playing it was that the UI was extremely tiny and frankly unusable. Same for quest logs and all.
Do you mean is it stoopidly small on the ‘real estate’ that 4K gives…? No - it scales to the same proportion as 1080p.
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