Rough gaming performance estimates on x2 5200/radeon 3650 system I'm selling?

[moro310]

I'm selling a system I built about a year ago to a friend who wants to game on it. I never ran a single game on it, and haven't really played anything since the original unreal tournament many years ago.

So, could anyone help me give him a rough estimate of what to expect in a few popular games (he specifically asked about world of warcraft) on a machine with the following specs? I know every install is different, but give it a stab if you would:

Athlon x2 5200+
Asus M2nE nforce 570 ultra
2gb crucial ballistix ddr2-800
Sapphire Radeon 3650 w/ 512mb
WD 320gb sata 7200rpm

He has fios so internet speed isn't an issue. I posted here as I assume the GPU is the biggest limiter. I tried doing some searches but all the 3650 reviews I found were on Core2Duo or higher systems. Any help is appreciated, thanks

 

[Denithor]

Actually WoW likes CPU & RAM at least as much as it does GPU muscle. That's a fine low-end build you've got there. Pretty well balanced on all three points, should play WoW ok, maybe with some details turned down a bit.

 

[cusideabelincoln]

The GPU is the limiting factor, but it should handle WoW just fine. For reference, I built my brother a similar PC as yours about a year ago - Athlon X2 @ 2.7 GHz, Geforce 8600GT - and it can play TF2 maxed out, barely handle Crysis on all medium settings, and can play CoD4 smoothly on a mix of high/medium settings. So it's certainly capable of playing a lot of popular games if he turns down the settings, but upgrading the GPU would definitely give him a huge boost if he ever decides to do so.