How does the Core 2 Quad do with 5 clients?

[Oatboat]

Title says it mostly. Just looking for people with experience using C2Quad. I can either just upgrade my processor or buy a new board/processor/memory with i5 or i7 chip.

But if C2Quad can work pretty well then i would rather save some cash and just upgrade it.

What i'm interested in is Wintersgrasp and AV not really Dalaran because i hate that place.

Thanks.

[alcattle]

I have a Q6600 and it works fine. Put in 8 gigs and a decent Video card and you;ll be fine

[Svpernova09]

I have an 8400 and it's fine. If you have the cash to upgrade to an i7, i'd probably go that route, I went with the 8400 because I had recently rebuilt everything and was just waiting on a CPU upgrade.

[rfuilrez]

I use a Q9550 and run 4 clients, but on a Hackintosh. I don't see any reason why it would be slow with an extra one. My bottle neck is my Video Card. Just a 256mb GeForce 8600. And I only have 4GB of RAM at the moment.

[VonHenry]

I have a Q6600 and it works fine. Put in 8 gigs and a decent Video card and you;ll be fine

/QFT

I have the Q6600 too. While my processors are working at 68 to 75% most of the time I think it's mainly due to the fact I'm capped at 4GB RAM. :mad:

That said, I have yet to get my team to Dalaran or Icecrown dailies yet. I'm scared there....but I'm pretty sure it's RAM that'll be my issue NOT the processor.

One word of note, and others may have more experience I'm sure, I DO find that I have to be careful of the FPS settings on my alts, or my CPU starts to peg. I'm not sure if that's because of my lack of RAM, or the way WoW utilizes the processors.
(My Video Card is an 8800GT 512-MB, so I don't think it's my card).

[Ualaa]

I was running a Q6600, with 8GB of ram.
Dalaran and Wintergrasp were far from smooth, somewhat annoying actually.
Unmounted, follow did not break here.

Aside from that, the game was playable everywhere.
I'd occasionally lose follow in AV's, if everyone was mounted and there were 35 other toons rushing forward.
But the game was definitely playable, anywhere a 5-man team would go.
Instances were never an issue, at least on the computer side of things.

Having upgraded to an i7 system..
12gb of faster ram, faster processor, ssd drive etc.
It's smooth everywhere.

The Quad Core system will work absolutely.
But an i7 based is preferable, if you can afford it.

[irun3mages]

Im running 3 clients on my single comp/monitor and its ok, no upgrades straight out of the box.

dalaran and AV are okish but not great, my graphic settings are down to minimum i will prob upgrade vid and ram soon to smooth things out and if i add more clients in future

[Trick]

I run up to 5 clients using Windows 7 64-bit, Q9450, 8GB RAM, and ATI 4850. Runs smooth as silk.

Only issues I ever encounted with follow breaking in AV while mounted was due to one or more toons getting out of range of Crusader Aura while the main was still in range.

[Cesare]

I have a Q6600 and it works fine. Put in 8 gigs and a decent Video card and you;ll be fine

Same for me, works like a charm.

Mounted through Dalaran --> no problem.

[RobinGBrown]

Q6600, WinXP,3gig RAM, 512mb graphics works fine for 5 boxing too - just have to turn the settings down in WoW

[lordmythic]

Q6600 with 8gigs of ram runs 5 fine but the main is running at 60fps while the slaves are at 15. Dalaran is ok and usually around 25-40fps on my main and Icecrown is normal

[Tofino]

Q6600, WinXP,3gig RAM, 512mb graphics works fine for 5 boxing too - just have to turn the settings down in WoW

Yeah, from my experience the CPU is the bottleneck for multiboxing, since the WoW graphics engines are sufficiently old to run with no sweat on up-to-date video hardware. My E6600 (dual core) with 4G runs 3 clients fine with plenty of free memory and graphics card relatively cool, but the CPU gets pinned often. 4 clients turns it into a bad experience, and 5 clients is unplayable. I can turn the 3 clients video settings up without any effect, though. Looking forward to getting my i7...

[merujo]

I had a q6600 that i used to run my 4 slaves, and i had my main on my C2D. On TBC it was flawless, and even when WotLK came out i played without problems till i met Dalaran and Wintergrasp. It's impossible.
Having only 4GB doesn't help, but i think one of the major factors is also the HDD. Upgraded recently to Win7 and came to the conclusion the HDD i run my copies from is kinda slow, even being a SATA drive with 7.500rpm.
I just couldn't continue like that, so i grabbed an extra LCD, put it on my main pc and run 2 clients, my quad now handles just 2 clients and my MacBook Pro handles the 5th client.
It could be all sorted with 8GB on the quad? Probably. But the HDD takes a major roll as well, perhaps a WD Raptor may also help a bit or a SSD.

[ciscokid454]

Using a q9400 with 8gb and gtx280.
Works fine with 5 clients on two screens