Can it play WoW?

[Supportsneedlove]

Hi 

The specs are Amd athlon x4 640, hd 6850 and 4 gigs of ram. I'm going to upgrade the ram to 6 or 8 gigs. Will it run WoW?

Cheers

[williamcll]

6 is enough, WoW isn't resource intensive.

[Supportsneedlove]

Just now, williamcll said:

6 is enough, WoW isn't resource intensive.

What settings would that be?

[williamcll]

11 minutes ago, Supportsneedlove said:

What settings would that be?

On WoW's webpage, it says the recommend RAM requirements is only 4GB, and an upgrade to 6GB would be enough.

[Supportsneedlove]

Just now, williamcll said:

On WoW's webpage, it says the recommend RAM requirements is only 4GB, and an upgrade to 6GB would be enough.

What about the rest of the system?

[Christophe Corazza]

WoW is more CPU reliant than anything else. However, overall, the game does not require a very fancy setup to be playable.

Apparently, the upcoming seventh expansion 'World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth' requires a much beefier computer, even recommending 8 GB of RAM.

That being said, I don't play WOW either, so I'm not the best source of information in this regard.

[plsno]

Yeah, it will run it. However, you're going to have low framerates(extremely low during raids). The new expansion is coming out in august so you're going to probably have even worse framerates then. 

[Xwano]

Hey man, I think you'll be fine to run WoW on some pretty decent settings. Personally, I recommend just downloading the game and seeing what FPS and what settings your rig can handle. I believe WoW is free up to level 20, so it will let you at least see how the game runs without having to pay for anything.

[Nocte]

It will be fine if you don't expect to do raiding. Battlegrounds, dungeons, and arena should be fine though.

 

EDIT: I used to raid fine with a laptop sporting a NVIDIA GT 650M (pretty much similar to the one you have) and a i7-3360QM CPU (I believe it is a bit faster, I couldn't find benchmarks for it) and 8G of DDR3 1600Mhz RAM. You might be able to raid.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Xwano said:

Hey man, I think you'll be fine to run WoW on some pretty decent settings. Personally, I recommend just downloading the game and seeing what FPS and what settings your rig can handle. I believe WoW is free up to level 20, so it will let you at least see how the game runs without having to pay for anything.

Your premium account with expired membership still works as long as you use characters at or below level 20. They just don’t gain experience after they reach level 20.