Upgrades to your video card can get you better frame rates and larger resolutions, however, you still can get good performance from older hardware. We have WoW cataclysm Gold tested Burning Crusade Burning Crusade on 14 different video cards.

It's a great game. Burning Legion is very CPU friendly. It will play the game with an old two- or three-year CPU, however, an upgrade to your processor could increase your frame rate.

WoW Cataclysm Classic still loves memory. If you only plan to purchase one upgrade to Burning Crusade, make it one that adds 1GB in RAM.

WoW Cataclysm Classic: The Burning Crusade looks good. It might not include all the latest graphics features however it looks fantastic thanks to its gorgeous artwork and a unified design theme. It should be possible to go through all the settings without much difficulty on the majority of mid-range systems. We took out an older model that we tested, the GeForce 6600 GT to test how each setting affected performance.

Draw distance slowed performance the most, cutting nearly 30 percent off the system's frame rate average. By disabling the shader settings, you will result in a number of frames but it will reduce image quality. If you want to get back some speed it is best to go about it the traditional method, which is to simply turn on setting for resolution as well as antialiasing.

Burning Crusade likes bigger and more powerful video cards, however you may not have to upgrade to play the game. In the event that you're considering playing with smaller resolutions, then you can use cheaper components with no issues whatsoever. The only video cards that made us nervous were older budget models such as GeForce 6200, or those like the Radeon X300 SE.

Burning Crusade isn't a huge resource hog, however you'll certainly need more than 500MB of RAM. Our test system froze heavily when loading areas that were populated, with just 500MB of memory. The issues disappeared after we increased the memory of our system to 1GB. Upgrade to 2GB RAM may not be required however, it is worth considering in the event that you are planning to upgrade to Windows Vista. Microsoft's new OS comes with buy WoW cataclysm Gold a massive memory footprint.