$500-$600 Budget PC - WoW

Looking to build a gaming pc, mostly for world of warcraft (10/25m raids), but will also dip into other games aswell.

- Prefer to stick to intel instead of AMD
= Prefer quad core
- Prefer i5+
-optical drive not necessary
-SSD not necessary

- please provide PCpartpicker links, as I will be doing the build myself.

Thanks!




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Not sure if you want to include the price of an OS or not, but this is close to as good as it gets for what you listed.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/QbC9Q7
power supply is a bit overkill for that, but gives you room to upgrade your gpu in the future, and it ends up being $43 so what the heck.

 

No need for OS system either.

 

and I would prefer it be closer to the $500 budget and not exceed $600.

 

going to be really hard to hit your expectations and budget without leaving the system unbalanced. That's the cheapest quad core i5, and to pair it with a gpu less than the 960 would leave you with a gpu bottleneck for-sure.
Honestly, a pentium g3258 and a 750ti would max WOW just fine. What other games are you looking to play?

 

Wow at high-ultra settings, OSRS, LoL, d3, maybe dip into some battlefield, csgo, twitch streaming and such

 

excluding battlefield, none of those games are too difficult to max. I tweaked the build a little and brought the price to $600 on the dot, but going any lower than that means a somewhat significant performance reduction.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/DcBW8d
do you still want to go a little lower?
to be honest, using an i5 in a build at this price doesn't make too much sense. Even with a hyper threaded i3, the bottleneck would likely still be the GPU.

 

I am open to other options, as long as WOW/OSRS/Twitch Streaming are top priorities. Preferably 60-65fps in wow

 

the previous link I gave is probably the absolute best bang for your buck that you can get, but another option:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/HWy3kL (same thing for the most part, but has an i3, giving you more wiggle room)
Should be absolutely fine for streaming and all of the games you mentioned. Even bf4. Streaming isn't too intensive, so long as your internet can keep up.
Obviously you can change the case to your liking, or look for similar parts that are different colors if you want to have a matching build.

 

Thanks man I appreciate it, I will definitely look into it, I am use to raiding on shitty laptops so im assuming even the lower end one you linked would surpass what I have had before.

 

What would your opinion be on this?

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/JoeOzz00/saved/thfFf7

SSD for OS, everything else I would add onto a 500 or 1tb hd

 

I like compact cases but I feel they will limit expansion in future.

 

not a bad build, but you'd want to at least bump it up to 8gb of RAM. Battlefield especially will use more than 4. And a 750ti will be a bit of a bottleneck, but be just fine for what you named. (aside from battlefield. It will run it fine, but not on max settings, more like medium.)
Also, compact cases are great and all but they're more of a pain to work with. With that case, you should be able to fit most GPU's. Specs say up to 343mm. There's cheaper SSDs you could use too, but make sure you stay away from kingston. SSDNOW v300 especially.

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/MR24vK

Or

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/s9bxQ7

Sacrifices some visual quality for some higher performing hardware. I mean really, do you need a flashy case?

System will play pretty much any game on med-high settings.

The 6300 or 8350 are SOLID cpu's:

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i5-4440-vs-AMD-FX-8350
http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i5-4440-vs-AMD-FX-6300

But if you -have- to have an i5 then: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/fmYqyc

 

I'm running an 8350 and I can say it handles every game I throw at it. Runs games like battlefield/dragonage better than my intel rig, but older single threaded games (or games that scale like shit with more cores) will run much better on intel. Im pretty sure WOW would dip a lot less during raids on an intel chip, that's why I didn't recommend AMD.

 

isn't it better to run 2 ram than 1 single stick?

 

bump....

 

yes, running in dual channel is better.

 

Only on benchmarks, and only by about 10-15%. On a budget machine with 8GB of RAM, single or dual, it would not be a factor in performance. Split it into 2 4GB sticks for a couple extra bucks, it's only a couple clicks away.

 

Should only go single channel if your mobo has 2 ram slots. Otherwise no point really.