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Approximate Purchase Date: August 15th, 2014

Budget Range: $1000

System Usage from Most to Least Important: World of Warcraft(medium to high settings with solid 60 fps)

Are you buying a monitor: No

Do you need to buy OS: No

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Canada Computers

Location: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Parts Preferences: intel

Overclocking: No

SLI or Crossfire: No

Your Monitor Resolution: 1680x1050

Additional Comments: My girlfriend is currently using a very old laptop to run World of Warcraft which barely handles it on low settings. Ideally I could get her on medium settings with a solid 60 fps. Generally all that she does is quest, some instances and maybe an odd battleground. There is also some potential for raiding in her future.

I would like to keep future upgrades in mind with this build. I have an old cd/dvd burner that this computer could use. Possibly even a bit of ram.

And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading: Her old laptop simply does not cut it for her gaming wants.



Thanks a lot :)
 
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Everything from Canada Computers as suggested. No need to spend more than this and will handle WOW and many other games at ultra settings. If you really want to hit $1000 you could dump it on the graphics card and get an R9 280X. The ssd is optional, but nice to have

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($219.00 @ Canada Computers)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($101.99 @ Canada Computers)
Memory: A-Data XPG V1.0 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($82.99 @ Canada Computers)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($87.99 @ Canada Computers)...
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Anything other than World of warcraft? What things will she do other than gaming? Any reason for the Intel parts preference?
If WOW is the main thing to do, you could easily get a PC more than good enough for $1000, so you might not even have to spend that much. WOW is quite old and is nowhere near as difficult to run as newer games like BF4 and Crysis.
 
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Well I'm sure she would like to try some other games as well, this is just what we currently play together. At some point we may want to try some newer mmorpgs or some other newer games. I just prefer intel but if something else is really that much cheaper for the same performance I am willing to bend on that. And yes I agree WoW is not that performance intensive but the 25 man raids on ultra does take a bit more than a $500 machine to run smoothly I'd imagine.
 
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Everything from Canada Computers as suggested. No need to spend more than this and will handle WOW and many other games at ultra settings. If you really want to hit $1000 you could dump it on the graphics card and get an R9 280X. The ssd is optional, but nice to have

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($219.00 @ Canada Computers)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($101.99 @ Canada Computers)
Memory: A-Data XPG V1.0 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($82.99 @ Canada Computers)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($87.99 @ Canada Computers)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($57.99 @ Canada Computers)
Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 270X 2GB DirectCU II Video Card ($214.00 @ Canada Computers)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case ($69.99 @ Canada Computers)
Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($62.99 @ Canada Computers)
Total: $896.94
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
 
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Here's an alternate build to the one suggested above , mostly the same but cheaper and some improvements:
CPU is the same
Mobo is the same
Memory is the same
HDD: Slightly different HDD which costs about the same, down to personal preference between WD and Seagate
SSD: Bigger SSD for a little more money
Video card: Costs lots less but is the same card, an R9 270x is just a slightly overclocked 270, there will be minimal difference in game.
Case: Case is just a similarly priced Corsair case, choose whichever one you like best as they are very similar other than looks.
A 600w PSU is overkill, I changed it to a 500w which is more than enough.

This build simply saves some money without sacrificing performance, and some minor improvements & tweaks (bigger SSD for example).

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($204.99 @ NCIX)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($99.50 @ Vuugo)
Memory: A-Data XPG V1.0 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($82.99 @ Canada Computers)
Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($109.99 @ Amazon Canada)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($61.75 @ Vuugo)
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R9 270 2GB TurboDuo Video Card ($169.99 @ NCIX)
Case: Corsair SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case ($47.44 @ DirectCanada)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($39.98 @ Amazon Canada)
Total: $816.63
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
 
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Ended up going with a hybrid between the 2 builds suggested here. Dropping the SSD, went with the cheaper options between both builds to end up just over 700. Thanks guys, the advice was much appreciated. :)
 
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