New Computer

[jak3676]

As for the Cpu, From researching into Phenom II and the i7, and for me the price difference between them and certain results shown in the link you posted, personally don't justify the extra costs i would have.. I would possibly consider an i7 in a new pc, but as i'm upgrading my current one, for now i'll stick with the Phenom.

Can't say I looked to make sure your mobo can run it - but assuming you can, there is really no reason to go i7 instead of the cheaper upgrade to a phenom II. Anandtech.com just had a nice review on the most recent Phenom II. Short version is that it outperformed the 9650 by a fair bit and was much cheaper. It traded blows back and forth with the i7 920 depending on application. When you concider the price of a i7 mobo vs a Phenom II mobo, then the Phenom II was a fair amount cheaper. If I was only looking at buying new, I'd probably still go i7 because it should have a long future upgrade path, but when money is a concern and you already have a AM2+ mobo, then I wouldn't think twice about going AMD. You won't be loosing anything CPU wise.

I think you already have 8GB of RAM, so you're good there. GPU and amount of video memory will be the next thing to check. For a lot of the northrend stuff and dalaran you'll probably want at least 1GB of video memory. But I;m still running a 8800GT with 512MB of memory and it works - just have to lower settings quite a bit (slaves are all as low as they can go).

I'd suggest something like http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sapphire-RAD...946855&sr=1-22 instead, or http://www.amazon.co.uk/PEAK-RADEON-...947012&sr=1-31 if you want to spend a little more.