Build... Mostly for WOW

redrider773

redrider773

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I'm building a computer for my friend who will mostly use it for WOW. I'm throwning together my old parts and giving him a great price, but I do need to buy new RAM. I don't play WOW, but does anyone know just what exactly WOW uses up the most? Should I get high quality RAM, or will valueselect do just fine? The parts I'm throwing together are X850XT PE AGP8X, Intel P4 Prescott 3.0E (3Ghz), P4p800-E Deluxe ASUS, 580 Powermax Demon PSU, and a 20Gb HDD. Any ideas to improve WOW? Thanks.
 
definatley a bigger harddrive. Think about it, hes not going to use it just for WoW. He will need to store all kinds of documents, probably more games, etc...
 
Ctcoyote16 said:
definatley a bigger harddrive. Think about it, hes not going to use it just for WoW. He will need to store all kinds of documents, probably more games, etc...
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maybe he has a computer for all that other stuff and wants one just for WOW. but i think that graphics card u have is more than needed to play WOW.

and will u be puttin in 512mb or 1gb. and valueselect will due fine.
 
I ran wow on a 2g celeron,768mb pc2100,and a geforce 5200 pci card. Wasn't the best but was still playable on low settings. Wow takes alot of hd space like 5-6 g i think. Should be ok but with windows and wow maybe half of hd is taken up. Ram 1 gb should be good.
 
i really dont think you need anything special for WoW because A friedn of mine playes it on a dell LOL! with no video card just the intergraded one that comes with the mobo and 512Ram, and its pretty good..well for a dell at least..lol...

I dont think you should spend to much on this if its mainly for wow...
but thats just my personal thoughts...

....best thing i can think of if a bigger H.D.D ..
I think valuselect ram would do just fine..
 
Alright, this is gonna sound weird, but I gotta know. I have 1Gb of VS DDR333. Is that gonna be significantly slower than 1Gb Valueselect DDR400?
 
no, you barely notice speed with RAM

also, why build a compuetr just for WoW. If I was building one, I'd go all out, as much as I could, And make it be able to do the most tasks that I could.
 
im sure hes going to be doing more than that. although he may need a computer based on the MAIN PRINCIPLE that wow will work smoothly, im sure that, beyond that, he will eventually do more with it in the future.
 
i play WoW on a P4 2.6 Ghz CPU and w/ that corsair value select ram 1Gb and w/ a nVidia 6800 and runs really well. i would go w/ the gig of ram just to be safe.
 
I know him, and he just asked it to do WOW and othe rbasic things. He wont be doing anything that uses up much processing, not even multi tasking. He's just an average computer user, and happens to be on WOW the most. He'll have word prosseccing, a good onboard 7 chanel audio, and I'm gettin a 120Gb HDD< so I think this will be fine. Thxs for the advice on the DDR33. Any second opinions on that? I could even just OC it to PC3200, right?
 
For wow I would just suugest at least a GIG of nice ram, its very ram intensive in some area's....and a DX9 W/pizel shader so it can support the shader fetures...In reality it can run on a MX440 and 512mb of ram though, jst on low settings with a bit of lag when entering the apital city's.
 
so I wont see an improvement from 1gb corasiar VS agaisnt 1gb XMS or OCZ gold?
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If you have to ask, then odds are you wont

I have 1Gb of VS DDR333. Is that gonna be significantly slower than 1Gb Valueselect DDR400?
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Again... :) (im not putting you down, it's really quite true)

and a DX9 W/pizel shader so it can support the shader fetures...
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Have a look at VIDEO CARD 101, the use of jargon there is a bit ... off. :)
 
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