Don't bother with WoW, although there is nothing wrong with the game, it's gotten more challenging over Woltk, but the same old problem exists, unless you can find 10 to 20 reliable players, you will get bored pretty fast as it's impossible to play on your own and even more impossible to play with idiots (which made me quit).

Damn consoles ruining the industry

It's a shame but it is all about the money I'm afraid. I still get the hump every time I see the games' console versions priced higher than it's PC counterpart. I'd vote with my feet, but I'm a gamerholic and PC phobic at the same time unfortunately!
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That's one of the reasons I never understand why people continuously say console gaming is cheaper. If you buy a lot of games in a year, the savings from each game can pay for enough upgrades to keep your PC at a high enough spec to play most things well. Especially if you wait for a month or two after releases.

Well, as long as you are competent enough to do the upgrading I guess. My current rig is 2 years old, cost 650 (which was high because I replaced everything) and is more than powerful enough to run everything I've thrown at it, and will do for another 2-3 years before I will need to be upgrading the CPU/GFX. But maybe that's thanks to the poor quality of consoles

I can work on it to, and it has a decent control system

Consoles are more convenient, sure, but not as cheap as people seem to think.

I could probably manage to build it. I built one ten years ago and loved every minute of it. But then along came the family and put paid to the very little time I had spare anyway. Now I would be too lazy to upgrade anything!

I don't mind when they are working, it's the crashing and fixing I can't be bothered with.
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Seriously, I can't remember the last crash I had, probably some dodgy memory in XP 8+ years ago!

OSs have come a helluva long way in the last ten years, takes a lot to break em these days

Well all the bits have arrived the day along with the wifes hissy fit when she saw the cost of it all and pointing out it was done on the cheap didnae help matters

Buy her the sims and that should keep her happy .

Good luck with the build

And lol@FF, true though!