In the first post:

You have a powerful video card, probably overkill as far as wow goes. If you play other games as well, it might be more worthwhile. On a budget, I'd go with a much weaker card, since it will cost far less and still play wow smoothly. You don't need DX11 for wow.

An AMD processor will cost less then an equivalent Intel processor. If you live outside of the tropics, there probably isn't a huge difference between the two. AMD runs hotter and will overheat sooner, but that's not much of a concern for those of us in Canada/US/Europe or who have air conditioning.


In the second post:

The video card again is in the $550(CDN $) range.
An Nvidia GTX 275 will run for around $250 (CDN $) and play wow just as smoothly.
You could probably go with a video option far below the rest of your system and not have it as the "bottleneck" for your wow performance.

I prefer the Intel processor to the AMD processors. But that is a preference thing. Intel will cost more for the same performance. Or will be less powerful for the same price. At least that was true, the last two times I have bought systems.




I suppose you don't really need an 850 watt power supply for either system, a 650 watt power supply will work fine (especially if you're not planning on using SLI/Crossfire in the future); not sure on the price difference between the two.

6GB of ram is the minimum you'd want for 5-boxing, and as long as you don't have a lot of other applications open, it will run 5x wow just fine.

The 1TB hard drive is a decent choice. In Canada they run for $100-110; you could get a 500GB drive (half the size) for $60 or so. Not a lot of savings; I'd stick with the 1TB drive myself.

You could probably go with a cheap case, nothing fancy. As long as you have enough fans for cooling, a cheap and functional case is probably the way to go on a budget.