Hardware Recommendations
Yes, another what build should I make post (sort of). I don't really do any serious gaming other than WoW, Diablo, Star Craft, LoL and maybe a few others in the same type of game. Rather than burn money and buy the latest fanciest CPU/GPU, I thought I might buy smart. While it is impossible to future proof hardware, I'd like to buy with an option to upgrade down the road. I typically hang on to hardware till it breaks or is near obsolete (usually due my being broke most of the time :)).
WoW is primarily CPU intensive, but that does not mean ignore the GPU. I've read threads where the poster recommends a single core i3 over a multi-core i5 or i7! This community is pretty reasonable and well experienced with WoW and other games, so I'd appreciate thoughts on motherboard/CPU/GPU. I will probably use 16gb of ram and an SSD for all my games (maybe just one SSD for everything). One last question, monitors. What is everyone using? Is a 4k monitor worth it since WoW is not 4k. What about latency? 1ms or is 5ms fine? Oh, I don't raid or really run many instances due to being not being in an active guild. That could change. Thanks as always! |
Here is my build. Most parts were purchased in 2014, with the exception of the monitor that I bought last year. So far I haven't encountered anything that I can't run on high settings with performance issues:
It's probably a bit overkill for most of what I do, but I like it and have no issues with anything I want to accomplish. I've also done some video editing / rendering and that seemed to process pretty quickly compared to how it used to go on my old PC. EDIT: Also, I just noticed you are on Moon Guard. Hello fellow RP'er! I mainly play over on WrA. |
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I'm curious about the two SSD's. One for the OS, one for apps and games? I'm guessing the 3x 1tb drives are for longer term storage or really big files? |
The UI does support 4k resolutions (by way of scaling), but don't get 4k for gaming. It's more problems than it's worth.
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SSD - OS HD1 - Games HD2 - Programs that aren't games HD3 - General storage My games drive was nearing capacity from Steam purchases and random F2P MMOs that I play, and my slight OCD wouldn't allow me to put games on the program or storage drives, so I just bought the second SSD and put my most used games on it. I originally didn't play on an RP server, but I gave it a chance a few months back and got hooked. Dove deep into my Dwarf after finding the Dwarven RP community on WrA. Keep at it, it gets pretty fun! |
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