WoW Gaming PC

Bonechillin

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Approximate Purchase Date: June 2011

Budget Range: $1200-$1600

System Usage from Most to Least Important: School work, watching movies, surfing the web, playing WoW

Parts Not Required: Keyboard, monitor, mouse and speakers

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: http://www.newegg.ca/

Country of Origin: Canada

Parts Preferences: ASUS MoBo, and a black (preferably steel) case with blue LED lights

Overclocking: Maybe

SLI or Crossfire: No

Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080

Additional Comments: I don't need anything too flashy, but I'm kind of aiming for a black mid-tower case with blue LED lights like the Antec 600 or Antec 902 V3, and the PC *has* to be able to run WoW on the highest settings with no lag
 

ge8ff

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A great (blue) build for right now:

CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge
Mobo: ASUS P8P67 PRO (REV 3.0)
GPU: EVGA 015-P3-1580-AR GeForce GTX 580
HDD: SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
PSU: CORSAIR HX Series CMPSU-750HX 750W
Case: COOLER MASTER HAF 922 BLUE
Optical Drive: ASUS Black 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit
CPU Cooler: COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus

Total: 1518.90

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A nice build featuring a blue color scheme (might as well utilize the HAF 922's window).

If you are buying in June, then wait until June because something better could come out by then.

Also, I'd wait for some pros to post.
 

nvranka

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if all you plan on playing is WoW...you could build something that would play it on ultra for much less cash. It's not exactly a demanding game, even with everything maxed out.
 
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norleras

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I would get the essential 2500k. WoW is incredibly CPU dependent and the 2500k tears it up. You could skimp on the GPU a bit. WoW does tend to favor Nvidia, so I would go 550/560 ti if it's the only thing you're playing. I'm running 2500k/570 and it just destroys everything I throw at it.
 

diellur

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Speaking as an engineer, I doubt that you'll find a requirement for any software at university that will exceed that of a gaming machine. And if you did, you'd not be able to afford a copy of it anyway, so I'd not get hung up on that when building your rig. The most you'll be using at university is Word, Excel, Powerpoint with possibly a bit of MathCAD and Matlab thrown in for flavour. ;)

I'd echo the i5-2500K / GTX 560 build. Equally, an ATI 6950. WoW Cataclysm would run on my Acer 6930G on reasonable settings, and it's a heck of a lot inferior to that.