First upgrade and build, please help!

[Deleted]

Hello I was wondering whether people could help me with upgrading my computer. Any help is much appreciated, as my hardware knowledge and computer building skills are not that good

Budget

• Around £1000 including an OS, but not every part needs to be upgraded.

Resolution

• 1680 X 1050

Games / Settings Desired

• Im looking to run WoW on high settings, with the potential to run other newer games on medium settings. Games such as Rome Total War 2, the new Civ etc

Country

• England

Current hardware

• AMD 64x2 Dual Core Processor 6000 ~3.1ghz
• 4GB Ram
• ATI Radeon HD 4800
• Windows Vista
• 500GB HD (does not need to be upgraded)
• Periphereals are not needed

Okay thanks for reading the bullet points and any help is much appreciated.

Thanks guys

[jmacphee9]

i would plan on getting a new monitor as well if it was me, this has one included for under 1000 usd, im not sure what the price difference for you will be though but this includes a case, not sure if you are planning on reusing that. also using your disc drive and HD.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($189.99 @ Microcenter)
Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme4 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($134.99 @ Microcenter)
Memory: Corsair XMS3 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($42.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon HD 7850 2GB Video Card ($246.97 @ Newegg)
Case: Cooler Master HAF 912 ATX Mid Tower Case ($49.49 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: Antec 550W ATX12V Power Supply ($57.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Monitor: Acer G235HAbd 23.0" Monitor ($148.98 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (64-bit) ($90.61 @ Amazon)
Total: $962.01
(Prices include shipping and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2012-08-16 03:28 EDT-0400)

[Nekrosislol]

Hello and welcome new poster! Looks like Jmacphee9 has set you up with a pretty good setup.

One thing i recommend is finding a friend that is good with computer building to help you set it up when you buy your parts or read a lot of guides on how to do it.

Hope everything turns out great!

[Deleted]

Hello thanks for the welcome, Ive been reading this site without actually making an account before MLG purchased it

Thank you very much for the build and im looking to read all of the pc build guides in the stickies when I have all the components.

Thanks guys.

[inux94]

MLG purchased mmo-champion?

I thought it was Curse.

[Evil Inside]

It's curse lol.

OT: jmcphee has set you up with a pretty good build that'll pull its weight in most modern games.

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

MLG purchased mmo-champion?

I thought it was Curse.

I think MMO-C was owned by MLG before beign bought by the Curse Network. Might be mistaken though.


I would maybe look at other cases, the Fractal 3000, bitfenix shinobi (you can get a window version for 10 dollar extra) are both around the same price.