[Solved] Comparing pcs for playing wow

my gf and me play wow, surf the web and download the occasional movie..we are buying new pcs and i see 2 that im intrested in on budget builds but there are slight differences, we currently use laptops with 2.2ghz dual cores,2 gig of ram and 120 gig hard drives with 7150m vid cards

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Comb [...] mbo.815893

or

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applica [...] u=B69-1370

Core i3

Neither is an awesome performance machine, but I would go with the Newegg model because of the processor. Remember that these dont come with Windows which is an extra $80.

However, if you are building your own -- just buy parts that are on sale independently -- you should be able to make a better build than either of these.

Lots of people on Tom's do this:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/333625-31-gaming

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] ming-buget

There are also some published articles on building a budget PC at Tom's and Anandtech.

This is a good one: http://www.tomshardware.com/system [...] on-55.html

I actually disagree with the i3 on this one. The AMD build has a more powerful graphics card although neither are very good.

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts [...] 5231%5D=on

Also the i3 build come with a Thermaltake power supply. Generally not something you want in your computer.

so the 4 gigs and 8 gigs don't matter in terms of us playing wow? and hard drive space doesn't bother me, i just want the better one

yeah i did look at it, but overall its out of my price range. im currently using a NVIDIA GeForce Go 7150M on my laptop are the vid cards in those better than that? cause with that settings on low i get 20-30 fps and works awesome for me raiding.

that i can afford! that is 76 dollars under my budget, so that combo will work better then both of the other ones for wow?

also should i just just invest the extra 76 and buy 4 4 gig sticks of the same ram and make both comps 8 gigs?

yeah i have 2 copys of windows 7 64 home premium 64 bit so save the money or spend it on the ram, cause i priced it and its only 20 dollars over my limit to make both comps 8 gigs

i dont mind oc, if the price is good. the psu i can replace later. trying to get our comps on the 1st our laptops are on their last legs.

if i can overclock can u reccommend a fan for ocing under the 76 price? and maybe show a website that can show me how to over clock

so 2 of these will turn out better then the extra 4 gigs of ram for each computer..sounds good to me

okay thanks very much for all your info.

thanks everyone!

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