cheapest vanilla wow machine

[willy]

Hi all,

My laptop from 2011 died last week and I want a new portable device to play vanilla wow on.

It needs to be cheap (sub $300).

What's the best place to buy and what would be my best option?

[Jackyy]

lol. u can buy some used office PC from like 2007/08 for like 20-50 bucks and vanilla would run on it.

vanilla needs like 1 GHz CPU 512 GB RAM and graphics cards not worth mentoning.

just check ebay or second-hand IT shops

[flashback]

Office PC is not the option. iGPU are so shity...
IMHO the best choise is to buy modern Acer or Asus laptop about $350-400 with NVidia-based video. It will be nice for a long time.
In my case I use Acer V3-571G, almost 3 years old laptop. 55-60 fps world fps and 30-50 in cities. With above 50 addons installed.
You can try this model or something simular. Nowadays with "second hand" it might be under $300.

[Jackyy]

Office PC is not the option. iGPU are so shity...
IMHO the best choise is to buy modern Acer or Asus laptop about $350-400 with NVidia-based video. It will be nice for a long time.
In my case I use Acer V3-571G, almost 3 years old laptop. 55-60 fps world fps and 30-50 in cities. With above 50 addons installed.

depends how much money he got.

if the OP needs to starve only to buy a new PC for VANILLA WoW (!!!) I'd buy some crappy shit for 50 bucks.

+ most office PCs of that era had no iGPU, they had an extra graphic card.

+ the OP stated the "cheapest" and i guess it doenst get cheaper then this.

[flashback]

depends how much money he got.

If its really a money problem, the cheapest way is to buy PC on AMD, 2011-2012 years manufactured.

+ most office PCs of that era had no iGPU, they had an extra graphic card.

Most office PC of that era had iGPU. Companies like Intel or AMD used to hybridizing their CPU with GPU. Its cheaper and productivity.
The time when manufacturers built motherboards with discrete GPU was passed away. Since fall 2012 - spring 2013 as I know. Latest true gpu-based motherboard was released in 2014 by Biostar.
I know what Im talking about. Im in IT business over 10 years.

+ the OP stated the "cheapest" and i guess it doenst get cheaper then this.

I see he looks for a best and cheap option. But it doesnt make sence to buy an old PC or laptop for three hundred bucks, which can be passed away in any time. Just get a little more money and buy modern stuff.

[Jackyy]

Most office PC of that era had iGPU. Companies like Intel or AMD used to hybridizing their CPU with GPU. Its cheaper and productivity.
The time when manufacturers built motherboards with discrete GPU was passed away. Since fall 2012 - spring 2013 as I know. Latest true gpu-based motherboard was released in 2014 by Biostar.
I know what Im talking about. Im in IT business over 10 years.

well my company (well not really a "company" since i am working in the IT-depature of a university in germany) used in that era Scenic P320 PCs by Fujitsu-Siemens

we had NOT A SINGLE ONE of them with a iGPU all with an usual graphic card.

and on most of them WoW vanilla works fine. i have tested it *cough*

[flashback]

well my company (well not really a "company" since i am working in the IT-depature of a university in germany) used in that era Scenic P320 PCs by Fujitsu-Siemens

we had NOT A SINGLE ONE of them with a iGPU all with an usual graphic card.

and on most of them WoW vanilla works fine. i have tested it *cough*

Wow... Scenic P320 is an old PC. Its 2008 and earlier.
May be my misunderstanding, I wrote about THIS era, cause mean office PC in THIS era.
In THAT era (in a time of BC, WotLK) FS Scenic was good as for univercity and office.
And this era of desktop and office PC has nothing, but slow iGPU, which not good even for vanilla. I tried to play vanilla on Mac with HD4000 - so slow, you know.
So in THIS era office pc are not prepeared for wow at all, even for vanilla. THAT era must do the thing.

[willy]

Thanks for the replies. I need it to be mobile as I work away in the bush at a remote Minesite for half the week.

I was hoping someone new of a good website for last gen laptops that didn't sell, new old stock.

Anyone know of a website like that?

[Jackyy]

well my company (well not really a "company" since i am working in the IT-depature of a university in germany) used in that era Scenic P320 PCs by Fujitsu-Siemens

we had NOT A SINGLE ONE of them with a iGPU all with an usual graphic card.

and on most of them WoW vanilla works fine. i have tested it *cough*

Wow... Scenic P320 is an old PC. Its 2008 and earlier.
May be my misunderstanding, I wrote about THIS era, cause mean office PC in THIS era.
In THAT era (in a time of BC, WotLK) FS Scenic was good as for univercity and office.
And this era of desktop and office PC has nothing, but slow iGPU, which not good even for vanilla. I tried to play vanilla on Mac with HD4000 - so slow, you know.
So in THIS era office pc are not prepeared for wow at all, even for vanilla. THAT era must do the thing.

totally agree with you^^ on iGPUs from like 2010/2011 you can't play WoW-vanilla properly. a bit ironic when it works on much older hardware, but with a real grpahic card, much better

[Revon Tuli]

You can buy any office pc at least min core 2 duo 2ghz and 4gb ram. Integrated video is a bit crap, so a cheap gtx 200-400 series will do it. Really recommend to buy a good monitor. You want to use your eyes 60 years later as well i guess. With this config you can run it 1080p and even tuning the graphics a bit. ( guide here at the forum)

Edit: You can take away your laptop HD and put it in your next pc(if it did not die), since it has a common sata connector. Cheers.