with the World of Warcraft movie and a new World of Warcraft expansion now the
original World of Warcraft came out in 2004 that got me thinking can a computer
from 2004 still run modern-day world Warcraft now obviously I need a computer
from 2004 and after a lot of testing if it's all hardware from 2004 the answer
appears to be no however if you have a motherboard from 2004 you can max it out
and these are the results first I had to acquire a computer from 2004 since this
is over 12 years ago it needs a lot of work first we need to clean it out
here's me using an air compressor to get over 12 years of dust out of the
computer
now I'm not going to change the CPU on this computer it does have a Pentium 4 3
gigahertz however I am going to upgrade the video card and max out the RAM it
originally had 512 RAM it now has four gigs
next I'm going to go ahead and pull some cards that are no longer used this
includes the 56k modem and the parallel port card the card I chose was an AMD
Radeon 8490 while we're loading this up just a couple things to keep in mind the
motherboard is from 2004 that year is actually very important for computers as
the socket 775 just came out and PCI Express just came out so this board I
was lucky enough that it had a 775 socket and that it was also PCI Express
and here is world of warcraft on a near 12 year old computer
now keep in mind this is on the very lowest settings and the lowest
resolution for the game however it's pretty smooth as far as playability now
I apologize that I'm not able to get better quality running this game Windows
7 and running recording software it just is not enough there's just not enough
RAM not enough anything for this machine to do it
some dude is literally following me
Note: I had no idea it was an NPC
who is this guy? Darnell? Go away Darnell stop killing all my guys so I'm
going to go ahead and hit ctrl R and get a readout on the actual frames per
second here okay I was hoping it would be a little bit better than that right
now it's anywhere between 35 and 45
isn't too too bad
so that's it World of Warcraft on a 2004 computer if you have any questions
comments or concerns please feel free to put them below I'd be more than happy to