Trying to run WoW

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bryce_hiller

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So I bought a desktop basically just wanting something powerful enough to play world of warcraft. This is the desktop I purchased.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/CybertronPC-Black-Evoke-Gaming-PC-with-AMD-FX-4130-Quad-Core-Processor-4GB-Memory-1TB-Hard-Drive-and-Windows-8.1-Monitor-Not-Included/39402895

I'm using a 32 inch tv as a monitor. I figured this computer would be able to handle WoW petty easily, since it has a 1gb dedicated graphics card. But the game runs horribly. Can barely even play at the absolute lowest settings. Am I missing something or is this computer just garbage? Thanks.
 
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The FX 8350 is a very power hungry CPU and requires a motherboard with pretty robust VRMs to avoid throttling. Given how bargain basement the rest of the system is, I'd imagine the motherboard is a cheap piece of crap with an uncooled 4+1 phase VRM if you're lucky. If you can return the system, I would do so, upgrading is possible, but you'd likely be replacing so much stuff that you might as well be rebuilding from scratch anyway.
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That desktop is pretty shitty. It shouldn't be able to run wow that well, as 1 gb is pretty a pretty bad vRAM. In addition, I didn't see any GPU listed in the specs which could be why it doesn't run too well. You're not missing anything. You could build one at around the same price that will run WoW well.

Update: It runs on the nVidia GT610, which isn't a graphics card that is too good. The CPU is also not that good, and from my experience in WoW, it is a CPU heavy game. Building a PC with an i3 and a lower end GPU should be able to run WoW at medium with high frames.
 
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Yes, but it would be fairly difficult. Trust me, returning it and building one will save you a lot of trouble.
 
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That will be viable, but trust me, please just return it and purchase the parts to build. You could get a intel-based desktop that will do much better than AMD.
 
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The FX 8350 is a very power hungry CPU and requires a motherboard with pretty robust VRMs to avoid throttling. Given how bargain basement the rest of the system is, I'd imagine the motherboard is a cheap piece of crap with an uncooled 4+1 phase VRM if you're lucky. If you can return the system, I would do so, upgrading is possible, but you'd likely be replacing so much stuff that you might as well be rebuilding from scratch anyway.
 
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