Is The Processor Everything / Good For Gaming ? Is it the best thing for gaming?

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warcraft needsIs The Processor Everything / Good For Gaming ?

We have 3 playing wow here. Some on new computers and some on older ones as one of us is multi boxing(playing multiple accounts at one time).Warcraft doesn't need a lot of power. One gig of ram at least.  More is always better. A video card that is seperate and has it's own ram.  At least 256. And 512 would be better.  I know my son runs one copy of wow on a 6 year old computer with 1 gig of ram and a nvid card with 256 ram.   When he had 1/2 gig of ram, it was very slow.

 It also depends on what you will be doing. If you raid and will be amoung a lot of players and action, you will probably want at least 2 gig ram and a computer/processor made in the last 3-4 years.Vid card with min of 512 ram.  PvP battle grounds is also  going to need more power, tho not as much as raiding.   However no one wants to loose to the enemy due to computer lag.   

I use an  Intel Core  2 Duo-2.4GHz-1066Mhz with 4 gig ram and vid card is nvid with 1 gig ram (I can't remember which one, I'm not at home).  That computer is less than a year, I believe. I can log on 4 warcraft accounts and play 4 characters at once.   But again, warcraft does not demand a lot of power.

 I think they do this for a reason; most familes have their older computers and may pass them down to kids. This allows more people to play wow, ( entire family) and blizz sells more copies. WotLK ex pac did tweek the graphics up a tad and they may continue this in the future.  I don't think they will ever change their policy of keeping it fairly simple so that more people can play/BUY warcraft.

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