Vanquish II Potential Purchase Advice

Greetings Digital Storm forums, I hope I can find some advice here in my PC endeavors.

Let me preface my post by saying I'm computer illiterate, literally the most complicated thing I know how to do is take off the side of the case and clean it out with some canned air and even that makes me nervous.

That out of the way onto my question.

I'm looking to get a new computer and I've heard good things about Digital Storm and Vanquish II.

What I'd like to do with this computer is play World of Warcraft at high/Ultra settings and not drop below 30 FPS in a raiding environment and hopefully maintain better out in the world.

I'm not really a PC gamer, I won't be playing anything cutting edge. The only other games that will likely grace this PC will be D3, L4D2, Hearthstone and perhaps Minecraft.

That's what I'm looking to do with it.

The Vanquish II Level 3 breaks my admittedly limited budget by a couple hundred bucks after shipping so I'd like to ask if the Vanquish II Level 2 would accomplish what I'm looking for. The Level 2 just barely doesn't bust my budget. Heh.

Mostly I'm concerned about being able to play WoW on the higher settings and have this PC last another two expansions without having to drop below medium settings at least.

My only concern with the Level 2, aside from the already mentioned questions, is that I've heard AMD isn't exactly great. And by heard I mean I've read it on a few tech forums, again not computer savy myself.

That's all I suppose, that and any other advice you all may have.

Thank you very much for you time.

Originally posted by Ariktu AMD does not perform as well with their CPU's in Wow so I would not suggest getting a system with one for raiding in Wow. Really an Intel CPU is what you want for Wow. If the level 3 is out of your price range you could buy the level 2 and just reduce settings to try and get decent FPS in raids. Even with the Level 3 you likely would need to drop shadows down a step or two in 20+ man raids.

I'm already running with a computer that I have to drop the settings on in raids to get decent FPS, if the level 2 can't handle at least the High setting in WoW then it's probably not worth it.

And yeah most people with great rigs have to drop shadows down in raids, that's not really a worry.

So sounds like level 2 may not be worth it.

If anyone else has any input I'd appreciate it.

Originally posted by Nav You're going to want the level 3 or 4 if you are looking for a strict WoW machine that will handle raiding.

Well level 4 is out of the question.

We'll see then I guess, thanks for the info.