Intel Core i7 Quads!!!!!!!!!!!

The only reason I wouldn't buy the "extreme edition" is that in 1 year there will be new i7s that are 30-50% faster and cost 50% less. The shelf life for top-end CPUs is horribly short, unless you are writing it off as a business expense it usually is not a great bang for the buck.

Also keep in mind there are persistent rumors that Intel may release a new LGA pin config next year - i7 is 1366, they may release a 1066 or something slightly smaller. imo future proofing is never a good idea, I'd rather buy a new case/PS/mobo/memory/video card every 16-24 months (and sell/donate your old one) than try and jam new CPUs into old motherboards every 12 months. The $500 I'd save between a 920 and 940 right now I could use into buying a new i7 in 18 months.

The things I've read on OCP about the 920 i7 make me pretty happy, people are OCing it to near 4ghz on air and its performing great. Now of course the only real hardcore things I do on my PC are play 5 WoWs and watch blurays, both of which are fine on a core2duo and so the low end i7 will be fine for me. I probably will go that route over the q9550, since for just $400 more you get a CPU that is much better.

Multiboxed WoW is not CPU limited. I've never seen my Q9550@3.6GHz loaded higher than 80%, usually it is around 50-60%. I'm running 5 box with 2560x1600 res on main screen and 1280x1024 secondary screen, and the ONLY thing that raises my fps is lowering graphic settings. I have 4870 1Gb and even though my slaves are running at lowest possible res with lowest details (slightly lowered high settings for main), GPU load is always at 100%. I'd say that getting more GPU power is more important.

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Originally Posted by 'weeep',index.php?page=Thread&postID=150394#post15 0394

Multiboxed WoW is not CPU limited. I've never seen my Q9550@3.6GHz loaded higher than 80%, usually it is around 50-60%. I'm running 5 box with 2560x1600 res on main screen and 1280x1024 secondary screen, and the ONLY thing that raises my fps is lowering graphic settings. I have 4870 1Gb and even though my slaves are running at lowest possible res with lowest details (slightly lowered high settings for main), GPU load is always at 100%. I'd say that getting more GPU power is more important.

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A Q9550 is a great cpu, you need a good balance of CPU/GPU. Downgrade your cpu to a Q6600 and tell me how that goes.
are you using dualview? spanned? vista?

im currently using 8800GTS 640MB/9600GT 512MB/Q6600 to quadbox, using both videocards give me a small boost in fps but not huge.
Places with high mob/people concentration is more of a cpu limitation than gpu.

I'm still waiting for vigorgaming to introduce a new setup with more options. I was told by the end of this week we should see more stuff up there, I'm having trouble waiting. You can buy this rig on Cyberpower for about 700 less... but that's cyberpower and I really haven't had a good experience with them.

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Originally Posted by 'Multibocks',index.php?page=Thread&postID=150466#p ost150466

I'm still waiting for vigorgaming to introduce a new setup with more options. I was told by the end of this week we should see more stuff up there, I'm having trouble waiting. You can buy this rig on Cyberpower for about 700 less... but that's cyberpower and I really haven't had a good experience with them.

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build it your self. :thumbsup:

Cyberpower is fail, that is all.

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Originally Posted by 'weeep',index.php?page=Thread&postID=150394#post15 0394

Multiboxed WoW is not CPU limited. I've never seen my Q9550@3.6GHz loaded higher than 80%, usually it is around 50-60%. I'm running 5 box with 2560x1600 res on main screen and 1280x1024 secondary screen, and the ONLY thing that raises my fps is lowering graphic settings. I have 4870 1Gb and even though my slaves are running at lowest possible res with lowest details (slightly lowered high settings for main), GPU load is always at 100%. I'd say that getting more GPU power is more important.

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A Q9550 is a great cpu, you need a good balance of CPU/GPU. Downgrade your cpu to a Q6600 and tell me how that goes.
are you using dualview? spaned? vista?

im currently using 8800GTS 640MB/9600GT 512MB/Q6600 to quadbox, using both videocards give me a small boost in fps but not huge.
Places with high mob/people concentration is more of a cpu limitation then gpu.

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I've been upgrading all kinds of stuff trying to reduce heavy city lag. Even purchased a GTX 280 SSC and saw no real gains, Just about the only thing left for me to upgrade is my Q6700

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Originally Posted by 'algol',index.php?page=Thread&postID=150483#post15 0483

Cyberpower is fail, that is all.

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yes, I've read of people asking for a oc'd cpu on their setup and receiving it stock... my computer crashes about once a day (first and last cyberpower purchase).

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Originally Posted by 'Multibocks',index.php?page=Thread&postID=150466#p ost150466

I'm still waiting for vigorgaming to introduce a new setup with more options. I was told by the end of this week we should see more stuff up there, I'm having trouble waiting. You can buy this rig on Cyberpower for about 700 less... but that's cyberpower and I really haven't had a good experience with them.

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build it your self. :thumbsup:

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after working on my current computer for 100+hours I am officially tired. I just want someone to make it work right from the start, and I'm willing to pay for that.

The current crop of Core i7 are 4 physical cores with hyperthreading to make it look like 8 logical cores.

And previous posters are correct in that multiboxing is not cpu limited. Your current quad-core LGA775 Core 2's are more than adequate for the job. If you're experiencing slow downs, it's your graphics card and i/o.