Hardware for Wrath

[Concillian]

Probably cheaper and certainly easier to just build a whole new system if you're gonna replace the mobo<_<

You will not get cheaper for something worthwhile. It's easier, but definitely not cheaper.

He expressed interest in $2-300. Please show me your $2-300 whole computer purchase. What I outlined is around $250 before OS. If you consider that he'll probably have to purchase an OS too, it's around $350. Show me a $350 computer and I'll show you a computer that doesn't have an adequate video card to run WoW well. It'll probably also have 2GB RAM instead of 4, it may or may not have a dual core. Pre-builts tend to charge up the butt for a halfway decent video card and for RAM upgrades. At Dell, they charge double what you can get 4GB brand new to upgrade from 2GB to 4GB.

Please feel free to prove me wrong by linking an actual computer comparable to what I suggested less than double the $350 (That is, dual core / 4GB / video card comparable to a 4670 or 9600GT). I don't think you can.

I started this thread in order to help people who got a little blindsided by Wrath taking significantly more hardware in order to run well. Many of these people are on an extreme budget or are in a situation where they really didn't want to make a computer purchase at this time, so are trying to get into a workable situation as cheap as possible.
It provides very specific information about what options are good performance at a good value for the money. Where's your specific information? Without a supporting link of where to buy your imaginary cheap computer statement isn't really all that helpful.