Cheap system for my friend to play Classic WoW

[Iron Mosher]

I haven't been in the tech industry for 5 years now so I'm a little out of touch with computer hardware. My friend loves playing PvP in Wow and it's the only game he plays. He wants to play the free Classic WoW but his system is old and out of spec. He wants a cheap system where this is the only thing he will use it for. He doesn't care if it's laptop or tower.

For those in the know, any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

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[SniperHF]

I haven't been in the tech industry for 5 years now so I'm a little out of touch with computer hardware. My friend loves playing PvP in Wow and it's the only game he plays. He wants to play the free Classic WoW but his system is old and out of spec. He wants a cheap system where this is the only thing he will use it for. He doesn't care if it's laptop or tower.

For those in the know, any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

I can't seem to find official requirements for WoW Classic and from what I understand it still uses a newer version of the engine.

Just basing it off the last expansion for WoW, a pretty old system from even 2012 should be able to run it if it has enough RAM and a decent video card.


Something like this system would certainly do the job and may even be overkill:
ABS Rogue - Intel i5-9400F - GeForce GTX 1060 - 8GB DDR4 - 120GB SSD - 1TB HDD - Gaming Desktop PC - Newegg.com
Or this one: iBUYPOWER Gaming Desktop Slate 040i Intel Core i5 8th Gen 8400 (2.80 GHz) 8 GB DDR4 240 GB SSD NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Windows 10 Home 64-bit - Newegg.com


Without benchmarks or a specific price range I don't feel comfortable recommending something other than the cheapest it would take to run it on high settings/resolution. Some people don't mind playing below that but a lot do.

 

[RandV]

If you're looking to go cheap I doubt you'd need 8GB or a SSD to play WoW? I had a 4GB machine up until December and could comfortably play modern games up till around 2015.

 

[McRpro]

I haven't been in the tech industry for 5 years now so I'm a little out of touch with computer hardware. My friend loves playing PvP in Wow and it's the only game he plays. He wants to play the free Classic WoW but his system is old and out of spec. He wants a cheap system where this is the only thing he will use it for. He doesn't care if it's laptop or tower.

For those in the know, any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Just want to point out that it doesn't require an extra purchase on top of retail WoW but it still costs the monthly fee, in case you didn't know that.

 

[Iron Mosher]

Just want to point out that it doesn't require an extra purchase on top of retail WoW but it still costs the monthly fee, in case you didn't know that.

I can't seem to find official requirements for WoW Classic and from what I understand it still uses a newer version of the engine.

Just basing it off the last expansion for WoW, a pretty old system from even 2012 should be able to run it if it has enough RAM and a decent video card.


Something like this system would certainly do the job and may even be overkill:
ABS Rogue - Intel i5-9400F - GeForce GTX 1060 - 8GB DDR4 - 120GB SSD - 1TB HDD - Gaming Desktop PC - Newegg.com
Or this one: iBUYPOWER Gaming Desktop Slate 040i Intel Core i5 8th Gen 8400 (2.80 GHz) 8 GB DDR4 240 GB SSD NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Windows 10 Home 64-bit - Newegg.com


Without benchmarks or a specific price range I don't feel comfortable recommending something other than the cheapest it would take to run it on high settings/resolution. Some people don't mind playing below that but a lot do.

Thanks for the in depth reply. Much appreciated

 

[Iron Mosher]

Just want to point out that it doesn't require an extra purchase on top of retail WoW but it still costs the monthly fee, in case you didn't know that.

I'll bring that up, he said it was free.

 

[McDNicks17]

WoW is more dependent on your CPU than GPU, so look for something with a newer/better processor over a video card.

 

[Iron Mosher]

I think this might run WoW. It says the Vega is supported on their site. What do you guys think?

Supported Cards:
World of Warcraft Supported Video Cards

Maybe good enough?:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/HP-15-La...HDD-4GB-SDRAM-Jet-Black-15-db0066wm/471500900

 

[SniperHF]

Maybe good enough?:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/HP-15-La...HDD-4GB-SDRAM-Jet-Black-15-db0066wm/471500900

Will it work, probably.

It's very close to the bottom end of the requirements.

Given where it is on the list, the Vega it's talking about there is most likely the desktop Vega not the integrated laptop ones.

The Vega 3 is slightly faster than an Intel HD 530, which it also says it supports.

 

[member 51464]

This thread gave me a smile. I switched to running Linux a few years ago on a cheap laptop I picked up. It has been great. But man do I miss Age of Empires II sometimes. I have thought a few times to get the cheapest desktop I could find just to get Steam and play that bad boy sometimes. But alas, I know I shouldn't!

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

This thread gave me a smile. I switched to running Linux a few years ago on a cheap laptop I picked up. It has been great. But man do I miss Age of Empires II sometimes. I have thought a few times to get the cheapest desktop I could find just to get Steam and play that bad boy sometimes. But alas, I know I shouldn't!

Do it

 

[member 51464]

Do it

I hadn't even looked at Steam in so long....I installed the Linux version and one add-on and AoE II was right there in all its glory. Woooooooooo

 

[SniperHF]

I hadn't even looked at Steam in so long....I installed the Linux version and one add-on and AoE II was right there in all its glory. Woooooooooo

Heh, I was gonna say I'm sure most any ole dumpy laptop would run AoE even on linux it's pretty old

But don't forget to buy the next uber deluxe version coming out of AoE II yet again