Re: new system suggestions
- From: "Techpriest" <techpriest@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 24 Nov 2005 23:31:55 -0800
Short answer, yes. That onboard video will work.
The list of supported video cards is here...
http://www.blizzard.com/support/wow/?id=aww0830p
The onboard video that motherboard has is listed so I would say it will
work. Will it work as well as a 256 meg Geforce card, heck no, but it
will let you play the game until you can afford a good card.
Stay away from Celeron! I would rather save and buy a slower P4 then
get a Celeron.
You will need 1 gig memory to play well, but 512 will work. That MB
has 2 memory slots, get one 512 stick and then buy another later.
What about hard drive? You did not mention that but you don't think
your going to load the whole game into memory are you? Get at least a
7200rpm drive. That MB supports SATA so I would probably go that way.
You don't sound like an experienced tech. Why are you building a PC?
If your doing it for the fun and challenge, go for it. If you like to
work on PCs and think it's fun tracking down bugs then you will learn a
lot in the experience. Some people really enjoy building and modding
their own PCs. It will give you a custom PC and a sense of pride (if
it works when your done). I have built a number of PCs in my time and
I am sure I will build many more.
If your doing it to save money and don't look forward to working out
the bugs as a fun challenge and you can't afford a new one, go to eBay
and find a refurbished name brand PC already built. If not name brand,
at least built and tested. Make sure you get an AGP slot to upgrade
the video card. When it came time for me to get a new PC I went on
eBay and bought a refurbished IBM NetVista. I make my living as a
computer and network tech, I don't want to spend my free time dinking
with my PC. After I got my PC and I got some more money I upgraded the
memory and video card. It is now a P4, 2.4gig with 1.25 gig ram and
256 meg GeForce card. It has a CD, CDRW and 7200rpm 80 gig drive. I
can get ALL my hardware drivers from 2 websites, IBM and Nvidia. The
pile of parts you order from the web might work great once you build
it, or the motherboard might not like the density of the memory you
get, the video card drivers may conflict with the USB port drivers, or
who knows what won't like who knows what else. Then you will be one of
the people I hear from. "You fix computers for a living right? Well I
just built this PC and it keeps locking up." I first tell them, "I am
sorry if this advice is to late, but if your not the kind of person
that can fix a PC without asking somebody else to do it, you should not
be building a PC. I will tell you what I would do if it was mine." At
that point I tell them they need to make sure all their drivers are up
to date, don't use the drivers that came with the hardware, then start
swapping out parts one at a time and see if the problem goes away. "I
would be happy to do it for you at my standard rate of $50 an hour." is
the last thing I normally have to say to get them to leave me alone.
Just check out some of the PC support newsgroups and see how many posts
start with, "I just built this PC and..."
Dell's eBay Store
http://stores.ebay.com/Dell-Financial-Services
All of the PCs I looked at there come with warranty and tech support.
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