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[Kekkerer]

6 physical cores are ideal for multiboxing 5 accounts because there is a high level of parallelisation and significant memory access.

The OP, already has a 1366 motherboard and DDR3 ram therefore getting a new motherboard, cpu and memory may not even be cheaper.

Edit: a lot of benchmarks are not designed to take into account multithreaded jobs which is what multiboxing is. Multiboxing has a similar load distribution to video editing, though this is my opinion.

[MiRai]

6 physical cores are ideal for multiboxing 5 accounts because there is a high level of parallelisation and significant memory access.

I don't know what that means.

The OP, already has a 1366 motherboard and DDR3 ram therefore getting a new motherboard, cpu and memory may not even be cheaper.

The 2600K processor, which costs $320, is the most expensive item of the three which would need to be
purchased. As for whether he believes he currently has poor performance or not with his X58 i7 is for him to
decide. I believe he would be able to stick it out until Ivy Bridge is released, though.

[Kekkerer]

Indeed, I would wait for a DDR3 & 6+ core Ivy Bridge as well but if you're looking to upgrade now I wouldn't go down to DDR2.

Parallisation: CPUs are optimized to run a single thread per core therefore they have a lot of cache and are able to perform complex processes such as solving partial differential equations. Wow in essence is a single thread process, yes i know they've patched it so that it can split into multiple threads however the main reason you're seeing performance increases is because load has been taken off your cpu cache not because your cpu was running out of clock cycles. (this is a guess because there seems to be no fps difference between running wow on ultra on 1 core as opposed to deafult settings, i've got a 990x that has 12MB of cache in comparison to 8MB on the 2600k.) Wow is not truly a parallel process and you are also wasting resource on communication when using multiple cores.

Umbaalo, you are looking at benchmarks that do not represent what multiboxing is in reality, be very happy with your 980x.

[Sam DeathWalker]

HT can maybe get you 30percent more CPU speed under ideal conditions. Its far from clear if multiboxing will take advantage of this but Fenril tests seem to say that it will. Multiboxing is a very nich application though and most benchmarks are not going to tell us how we will do. Best to let someone else buy something and report here as to how well it is for multiboxing (lol).

It would appear on its face though that if you have 6 real cores and are 5 boxing on that computer and you can assign 2 cores to your main and 1 core to each alt that you should be doing well, but that is just speculation. Not sure if running an application on a real core and a virtual core is going to help at all.

I would not consider DDR2 at this point prices are falling on DDR3 and are dirt cheap ($10 a G with 4G chips). And DDR2 will go up in price as more manufacturing facilities move from making DDR2 to DDR3.


The new chip sets will be better but if you only use one video card nothing earth shaking.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4318/i...r-point-ssds/2