Any good for wow 25 man raids ? £500 and will upgrade some parts if needed

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Processor Intel® Core™ i5-650 Processor
- 3.2 GHz
- 2.5 GT/s
- 4 MB Smart Cache
Operating System Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit
RAM - 4 GB RAM
- DDR3
- 8 GB maximum RAM capacity
Graphics card NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 340
- 1 GB dedicated memory
Screen type None
Hard drive 500 GB SATA hard drive 7200 rpm
Optical disk drive DVD-RW (Write speed: CDR: 52x / CDRW: 12x / DVD+/-R: 8x / DVD+/-RW: 4x)
Memory card reader Yes
USB 10 (4 in front, 6 in rear)
FireWire No
Modem/Ethernet Gigabit Ethernet
WiFi No
Bluetooth No
Video interface 1 x VGA
1 x HDMI
Audio interface 1 x headphone/speaker line-out jack
1 x microphone-in jack
1 x line-in jack
TV output HDMI
Expansion card slot 1 x PCI Express® 2.0 x16 slot
2 x PCI Express® 2.0 x1 slots
1 x PCI™ 2.3 slot (5 V)
Sound 7.1 channel on-board sound card
Webcam No
Keyboard & Mouse Yes
Accessories included Keyboard and mouse
Size 459 x 190 x 524 mm (H x W x D)
Weight 12 kg

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previous generation processor, 2 generations old non-gaming gpu. Simply put ignore it and move on with your search.

[Arslay]

Check out something like a GTX460 Gcard. That seems to be your biggest issue. Also, you CPU is non-optimal but it will do. Or an ever better and quite power gtx 560 TI. Both of them can handle wow ultra 60 fps raiding if they are backed by a good CPU.

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That is a terrible system by any standards.

If it's a Laptop, you'll get better performance out of a "Llano" APU.

If it's a Desktop, 500 pounds can easily buy you a decent gaming PC, especially if you build it yourself (or at least customize it).

[vesseblah]

12kg laptop? Not in this decade.

Anyway, it's waste of £500. You need too many upgrades to make it 25-man viable.

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That is a terrible system by any standards.

It's way better than mine and I can run 25m just fine. No, you don't need ultra settings to raid.

[vesseblah]

http://www.cyberpowersystem.co.uk/sy...ity_apollo_se/

- change cooler to the stock option (-£23)
- add graphics card Nvidia GTS450 (+£66)
For a total of £610

That is the baseline if you want to raid 25-mans at higher than medium settings, and it's still fairly upgradeable.

---------- Post added 2011-08-13 at 08:26 PM ----------

I remember the days when a 700mhz with 128mb ram was more than enough for 40 man raids.

Now we need a computer equivilent to a small nuclear poewrhouse to raid with 25 men.......................

Strange how technology "progresses".

You missed the 8 years of patches perhaps?

Also you most likely played on a crappy 800x600 monitor back in 2004, 1920x1080 has 4.3 times the pixels, meaning it requires 4.3 times the raw computing power to keep up at the same speed.

---------- Post added 2011-08-13 at 08:27 PM ----------

It's way better than mine and I can run 25m just fine. No, you don't need ultra settings to raid.

I like my WoW to look like the original Doom from 1993 too...
Not.

[llandrywyn]

I remember the days when a 700mhz with 128mb ram was more than enough for 40 man raids.


Now we need a computer equivilent to a small nuclear poewrhouse to raid with 25 men.......................



Strange how technology "progresses".

The requirements have nothing to do with technology "progressing". It has everything to do with a 7 year old game engine being flogged to death to do things it was never designed to.

[Deleted]

http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/Other+products/Gladiator+Storm+Intel+Core+i3+2100+%40+3.10GHz+DDR3+Gaming+PC+?productId=45758

Still need to buy Win 7 ect but this is not bad for your budget and will do what you want it to.