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World of Warcraft: Legion is the sixth expansion pack for Blizzard's hugely successful MMORPG. Legion introduces the new Broken Isles continent, as well as increasing the level cap to 110, adding new dungeons, raids, artifacts weapons, demon hunter class, and honor system.

World of Warcraft: Legion System Requirements

19 Apr 2016 - Specs reviewed

Official Minimum Requirements

Intel CPU: Intel Core2 Duo E6600 increased to Intel Core2 Duo E8500
AMD CPU: AMD Phenom X3 8750 increased to AMD Phenom II X3 720
Drive Space: 35 GB increased to 45 GB.
Nvidia GPU: 8800 GT increased to GT 440
AMD GPU: Radeon HD 4850 increased to Radeon HD 5670
Intel GPU: HD Graphics 3000 increased to HD Graphics 5000

Official Recommended Requirements

Operating System: Windows 7, 8, or 10 increased to Windows 10.
Intel CPU: Intel Core i5-2400 increased to Intel Core i5-3330
AMD CPU: AMD FX-4100 increased to AMD FX-6300
Nvidia GPU: GTX 470 increased to GTX 750 Ti
AMD GPU: Radeon HD 5870 increased to R7 260X

PC System Analysis For World of Warcraft: Legion Requirements

The best chance at playing World of Warcraft: Legion at recommended sys specs on a 1920x1080 screen resolution will be if your PC has at least the GeForce GTX 750 Ti/Radeon R7 260X v2 graphics card. The CPU required to meet recommended requirements is either an AMD FX-6300 or Intel Core i5-3330 3.0GHz processor. This type of gaming rig will deliver you around the 60 Frames per second. Another thing to consider is the DirectX capability of your GPU. World of Warcraft: Legion needs a GPU capable of running DirectX 11. To summarise, World of Warcraft: Legion needs around a 7 year old PC to play at recommended settings.

FPS System Benchmark

198 FPS

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GTX 1060

How well optimised is World of Warcraft: Legion for PC? World of Warcraft: Legion is excellently optimized

9.2

Where does World of Warcraft: Legion rank in the list of the most demanding games?

100+

Genres: Online, RPG, Fantasy

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Minimum Requirements

Intel CPU

AMD CPU

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Core 2 Duo E8500 3.16GHz

Phenom II X3 720

GeForce GT 440 v2

Radeon HD 5670 512MB

512 MB

2 GB

Win Xp 32

DX 11

45 GB

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Core i3-550 3.2GHz

Phenom 9650 Quad-Core

GeForce GTX 650 1GB

Radeon R7 250 Gigabyte OC 1GB Editi...

1 GB

4 GB

Win 7 64

DX 11

45 GB

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Core i5-3330 3.0GHz

FX-6300

GeForce GTX 750 Ti

Radeon R7 260X v2

1 GB

4 GB

Win 10 64

DX 11

45 GB

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World of Warcraft: Legion PC Release Date:

30 Aug 2016

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World of Warcraft: Legion vs Avg. AAA Game System Requirements

Avg. AAA Recommended Requirements

CPU

Core I7-5775R 4-Core 3.3GHz

81%

Graphics Card

Radeon RX 480X 4GB

271%

RAM

13GB

225%

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