Hi, Anyone with experience know if an AMD 560 can 5-box?

Hello,
First post here. Used to check in here a few years back when a lot of people ran with the venerable Q6600. I also remember that even then, when some quad core users were struggling, there were some reports of people running five accounts well just with a dual core. It was probably the early Wolfdale chips.

My question is does anyone who has actually tried it know how a good dual core chip of today like the AMD 560 will fair? I should also be able to overclock it upwards of 4.0 Ghz.

I can run it with either Win XP 32 bit, or Win 7 32 or 64 bit. I can use either 4 or 8 gigs ddr3 1600 ram. The video card will be at the low end an 8800GT 512, and at the high end a 560 Ti 1 GB. All components already on hand; only the chip hasn't been purchased. Just not sure what configuration I would use because of other computer projects across multiple machines as well.

If the consensus is, "sadly, sorry, no. Tried it, didn't work. Couldn't keep above 30 fps on my main...Had great components all around but two cores couldn't keep up." Then, does anyone have experience with a tri-core? And if it simply must be a quad, how should an AMD 955 BE hold up?

Thanks extra for any helpful comments, not sure if I will ever fully make the plunge into Multi-boxing, but want to square away a good machine for when and if I do. God knows, I've always wanted to try it.

Which game?

Here I thought I had cover all relevant stats:

WoW.

Thanks ;)

I run 7 clients on a X2 3.2ghz athalon. But I play full screen not tiled.

Clock speed (but your ram and buss needs to keep up ...) is more important then cores in my opinion, but my opinion is that the cpu dosn't do much in wow and there are others who do not belive that.

Get a video card with 2G on it which can be in the $300 range, right now I think thats the most important thing anyone can do for their system, although I could be wrong.

A better gpu will let you run with more effects but 2G ram will help with texture lag.

For sure you need 8G (thats what I have), 16G would be better if win7 caches wow data which I assume it does, and use win7 64bit.

Thanks Sam DeathWalker,

I really appreciate the input. I have read a number of your posts and understand that you sometimes have a contrarian view. I like your thinking. It gives good pause to consider, "what is really taking place here?" And, how best to address it through hardware solutions; even if, as I have discovered to date through my reading, the resulting approach is different from 'everything' almost everyone else is doing.

In other words, focusing on all the parts, yes, but really - Processor, Processor, Processor. Number of cores, hyper-threading.
Don’t get me wrong, ultimately I have my eye on the 2500K for 3rd or 4th quarter 2011 (1st quarter isn't working out too well), but meanwhile I have all of these parts … And a hundred dollars gets it rip roaring with the AMD 560. Or does it?

Thanks again to any and all who can lend advice or experience.

Grail

p.s. My questions regarding the 560 are geared to a standard 560 without the probability of getting extra cores unlocked factored in. Yes, that would be cool. Yes again, I understand I can't count on it.