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[Mosg2]

CPU: (Quad-Core)Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4GHz 1066FSB 8MB L2 Cache 64-bit
MOTHERBOARD: MSI P7N SLI-FI 750i SLI Chipset LGA775 Supports LGA775 FSB1333 DDR2/800 Mainboard w/GbLAN, USB2.0, &7.1Audio
MEMORY: (Req.DDR2 MainBoard)4GB (4x1GB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory (Corsair or Major Brand)
VIDEO CARD: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 1GB 16X PCI Express (Major Brand Powered by NVIDIA)
HARD DRIVE: Single Hard Drive (320GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD)
Data Hard Drive: 32 GB 2.5 inch SATA Gaming MLC Solid State Disk (Nearly Instant Data Access Technology)

This is for 5 boxing. After reading Silencer's review of the SSD I figured I'd throw one in there. It comes to ~$950 for cyberpowerpc.com to put it together after rebates and without shipping. Is this fair? I could put it together myself but a little extra cash is worth it for me to not have to do all the work and troubleshooting if it doesn't go together properly. Also, is this pretty decent? I'm running an Athlon Dual Core 4800+, 4 gigs of DDR, 8800GT 512mb and I do ok but still get a lot of lag in Shatt and AV.

[Fef]

I would not get an SSD, but a pair off decent drives in RAID 0 instead.
Also, I would get more RAM.

[-silencer-]

I would not get an SSD, but a pair off decent drives in RAID 0 instead.
Also, I would get more RAM.

You need to read the performance difference I have with my SSD over my RAID0 Raptors. *Nothing* (short of a RAM-drive) is better than SSDs for hosting the WoW/Data directory, which is a major source of lag in player-busy areas like cities (Shatt) and battlegrounds (AV). If money is an issue and you demand performance when 5-boxing, you're better off with one HDD for your OS/installs and an SSD for hosting WoW/Data than you are with RAID0 drives, Raptors or not. I've tested this by loading 4 instances of WoW from a basic 7200rpm drive and my SSD hosting the WoW/Data directory, compared to just having WoW being all loaded from my RAID0 Raptors. There's no comparison - the basic 7200rpm drive with SSD is MUCH smoother in busy areas, and there's little difference in load times for the game or maps.

Compared to the 0.3ms access times of the OCZ Core SSD, RAID0 of standard hard drives (4.2ms or worse) does *much worse* in reading thousands of pieces of random data. That's the point of using an SSD for multiboxing (or WoW in general) for the /Data directory.

[Kaynin]

I agree, if you're willing to put down the money for it, SSD is quite an improvement.

That said, raid0 is sufficient in most cases though. Or even S-ata. But SSD still has the best performance by far.

[Griznah]

I'm running a 150gig raptor and I'm amazed by that speed. SSD would be fun to try out some time in the future tho, as I'm running
3 WoW(slaves) on a 7200RPM Samsung F1.