im a little confused

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i play world of warcraft mists of pandaria and the minimum requirements state
INTEL CPU Pentium 4 1.8GHz
AMD CPU Athlon XP 1500+

however if i pull up a core 2 duo 1.3 laptop processor it says it can run it in the system checker.
now i am wondering if the am1 1.3ghz quad core desktop processor would work for online school and playing that game only for a cheap build until i finish school and build a proper gaming rig. (since the p4 1.8 is single core is it total 1.8 overall or is it meant as 1.8 per core.... and if per core why can a 1.3 laptop play it?)

thanks in advance
 
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I don't think the game will actually lock you out because of your processor, but that doesn't mean it will be actually playable.

If the requirements say P4 1.8, it is meant as a single core. Then again, a quad core 1.3 is not better in any way, since the game requires at least that much processing power in one thread. Having many less capable threads available is not the same thing and will not work well.

Where did you get those requirements, though? Here it says different:

https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/world-of-warcraft-system-requirements


Still, a 1.3 processor nowadays seems awfully weak, even more so if you consider AMD processors have consistently achieved less performance per clock than Intel's.

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Cause AM1 processors are generally bad. I would stick to the laptop.
 
I don't think the game will actually lock you out because of your processor, but that doesn't mean it will be actually playable.

If the requirements say P4 1.8, it is meant as a single core. Then again, a quad core 1.3 is not better in any way, since the game requires at least that much processing power in one thread. Having many less capable threads available is not the same thing and will not work well.

Where did you get those requirements, though? Here it says different:

https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/world-of-warcraft-system-requirements


Still, a 1.3 processor nowadays seems awfully weak, even more so if you consider AMD processors have consistently achieved less performance per clock than Intel's.
 
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