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So I got a free GA-965P motherboard with a E6300 Core 2 duo in it. Well I was just gonna use it to replace what I currently use in my Server which was an older Single Core AMD and which I did replace it and things work Great! But was thinking about making a new build for a basic gaming machine for World of Warcraft and MineCraft (Current Machine is a Acer laptop with a 380m Core i3, GT-540m.

The ONLY problem I find with this is the CPU since it is older. How well would those 2 games run on the CPU? If used for gaming I will be putting in a GTX-650. It currently has a 550watt PSU so that should be plenty enough.

I have a GTX-650 Ti in my Rig with a Six Core AMD and get about 40-45 FPS on WoW on 1080p with everything on Ultra, and most of the time maxed at 60 FPS on Dungeons and so on.

The person using the machine only does web browsing and the most intensive stuff would be minecraft, world of warcraft and 720p YouTube Videos.
 
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Can that CPU run those games? Yes, of course, those games are really quite low spec.

Will it run them well? WoW, for sure. Espiecally with the hustle of a GTX650. Minecraft will be fine too, just not as smooth.

Oddly enough, the 380M is a more powerful CPU, and the 540M is not a bad GPU. Sticking with the laptop may be a good option here oddly enough.

However, if you are set on making a new rig, the yes, the E6300 is very competent. I can play those games on Socket 478 Pentium 4's happily. Just make sure to get atleast 4 GB of RAM and try to get Windows 7.
 
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I have an extra Copy of Windows 7 Home Laying around so no problem there. But I`m between spending about 80-100 on a video card and putting it in, OR Spending about $240 on a new Mobo, CPU, and Video Card.

I was looking at a cheap o motherboard and a AMD A5300 something like that.

But I have this extra power E6300 which if could work could save some money,
 
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The E6300 alongside a 7770 will CERTAINLY play WoW near maximum settings with ease. The CPU is a little bottlenecking for absolute max settings at 1080p, but it is still VERY capable and certainly can do what you want. I do reccomend this route.

However, if you do have 240$, and you have some parts from an old rig you can utilize (case, HDD, ODD, PSU?), then getting an APU would set you up very well for the future and even be much more balanced.

What country do you live in and what parts can you reuse from an old build if you decide to go the APU route?
 
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Just to let you know I have a Phenom x4 II 975 BE oc'ed to 4.0 GHz along with a Gigabyte 7870 gigabyte edition, and I'm playing at max settings @1080p on WoW with about 50 fps average in the more recent areas of the expansion. I'm expecting a little lower with the new expansion in about a year or two. With those parts, don't expect high fps with near max settings.
 
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