Originally Posted by
demonicpanda
For WoW, mostly, I was curious how important core clock speed is. The processors listed for both minimum and recommended system reqs are running at 3.0GHz, but I'm having to shell out some cash for a new comp in a somewhat emergency (I mean in the grand scheme of things it's not, I could stop playing for a month or so, save some more, and watch netflix on my tablet, but that's less than ideal) and am looking at a i5-6400 instead of the i5-6600 I wanted to get.
The problem is the 6400 runs at 2.7GHz, while the others listed run at 3.0GHz, without any listing from Blizzard what core clock speed minimums should be.
Am I going to have performance degradation or be unplayable if I go with the 6400? Or is 2.7GHz going to be "good enough"?