Hardware What graphics card should I get if I want to play WoW?

[Anon10W1z]

Thank you both so much! But are those compatible with my computer? Because I have no idea how to know that.

Yep, it should work.

 

[naved.islam14]

just wondering how you going to put the card into your CPU if you can't open it?

that's mini case, HP Built probably no more than 350w PSU

just go with Low profile HD 5650/5670 or this http://www.newegg.co...N82E16814127611 well somthing low profile like that to make sure it will fit with your case.

if you want technical compare look here: http://www.techpower...e_GT_520/7.html

I'm not going to interfere any further, I already give best advice for you. Good luck.

edit: is this computer from your office? it's quite rare a person buying built in computer for personal use, it's the only thing concern me that you won't or probably prohibited from opening the case.

Actually, my father got it from his office at a discount. And there's a good computer store near me so I would go there and see if they could do it for me.

 

[Daemauroa]

just wondering how you going to put the card into your CPU if you can't open it?

that's mini case, HP Built probably no more than 350w PSU

just go with Low profile HD 5650/5670 or this http://www.newegg.co...N82E16814127611 well somthing low profile like that to make sure it will fit with your case.

if you want technical compare look here: http://www.techpower...e_GT_520/7.html

I'm not going to interfere any further, I already give best advice for you. Good luck.

edit: is this computer from your office? it's quite rare a person buying built in computer for personal use, it's the only thing concern me that you won't or probably prohibited from opening the case.

Actually, my father got it from his office at a discount. And there's a good computer store near me so I would go there and see if they could do it for me.

gt430 is probably good enough to play wow with. but you should look on the internet for the price of it because it happens sometimes that small retail stores sells them for quite high. btw, if you are not confident with opening up your case by yourself, you should let someone else handle it.

 

[Hells Malice]

you could get a brick and it'd probably power WoW.
My, now, 11 year old PC could run WoW and it was the epitome of a PoS. It's so old it was on Windows 98 at one point in its life.
EDIT: Wait, nevermind math fail. 13 year old.

WoW has like no requirements, it's ancient.

 

[naved.islam14]

I don't mean to revive an old thread but, is this any good?

 

[Originality]

For WoW, it's fine. For anything more modern, it sucks. It is the lowest of its range, which translates to cheapest and weakest. If I remember, it's even weaker than the HD3200 I mentioned at the beginning of the thread.
It's also 4 generations old.

I would not buy one unless its an upgrade for a very old pc playing very old games. And WoW is old.

 

[Chhotu uttam]

well I see that you're from Sri Lanka so keep that in mind that the prices of GPU might/will differ from what people get in NA/Europe.

 

[Psionic Roshambo]

I don't mean to revive an old thread but, is this any good?

I would say for your machine it is perfect. It fits the power envelope and to be honest unless your going to upgrade your power supply you cant really put much more in it...

For those curious about the exact parts in his computer.

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/en/WF06a/12454-12454-64287-321860-3328898-3784892.html?dnr=1

Has a 365 watt active PFC power supply, rated at 85% efficiency (this is nice since it means it will run cooler than some generic POS that is lucky to hit 65% on a good day.)

 

[naved.islam14]

I would say for your machine it is perfect. It fits the power envelope and to be honest unless your going to upgrade your power supply you cant really put much more in it...

For those curious about the exact parts in his computer.

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/en/WF06a/12454-12454-64287-321860-3328898-3784892.html?dnr=1

Has a 365 watt active PFC power supply, rated at 85% efficiency (this is nice since it means it will run cooler than some generic POS that is lucky to hit 65% on a good day.)

OK, thanks!