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Haven't played since March. But plan on coming back to warcraft for the next xpac. I used to have a 670 4gig but I sold my card after I stopped playing so I need a GPU for sure. I plan on boxing ten but can accept 8 if I have to. I use one monitor. What needs to be upgraded 10 without problems or bottleneck.
Current PC:
I7 2700k (not overclocked)
asrock z77 extreme4
16 gig (1600)
2 tb hard drive 7200 rpm (would like to add ssd)
(insert GPU here)
750w 80bronze
You can just open 10 trial accounts and test it out yourself. Better than second guessing.
I really couldn't imagine 10 boxing on just one monitor, let alone 5 boxing. But I may be biased since I use 4 monitors at work and 6 at home... It's easy to get 9 wows on a second monitor in a 3x3 configuration, leaving the existing monitor for your main. I'd definitely look into a second monitor, even if it's a smaller/cheaper one.
For the GPU, definitely get as much RAM on the card as you can find, it helps a lot. I noticed a big difference going from a GTX 570 1.2GB card to a GTX 680 4GB card
You may want to look into overclocking, as the K series CPU makes it easy for basic overclocks. That said, 10 wows will use a LOT of CPU power, it wouldn't hurt to get a haswell chip, or maybe even go Ivy Bridge-E and get a 6 core, even 5 boxing moving to 6 cores helped a lot for me.
16GB of ram is plenty as most wow.exe instances take around 1GB each, leaving 6GB for the OS. Having more never hurts though :)
SSD is a must IMO. Just about any SATA 3 6Gb/s drive at 240-256GB is $200 or less and will load windows and games quickly.
I wouldn't seriously try to run 10 clients on a quad-core cpu unless you are ok with running at the lowest possible graphics setting.