So with a fresh expansion around the corner and with no doubt even more stress on your machine in some areas than a busy day in Shatt I have decided that I am going to do an upgrade to my PC just before the expansion arrives. I am not a hardware guru and I don't stay up to date with current trends, however when its time to upgrade I always by the pieces and do it myself.

The objective of this thread is to get some input from those that are up to date on current hardware and can advise me what I should be looking at buying to increase the performance of my 5 xWoW on 1 box solution. I don't really have a budget, however I don't like throwing money away on pointless upgrades either, thus the creation of this thread.

*I know there are significant advantages of a hardware solution, but I don't really have the space and I like my software solution.

My current setup is:

CPU - Intel Quad Core 2.4GHZ
Ram - 4gig ( cant recall type speed but its good stuff from memory)
Video- NVidia 8800 Ultra 512meg ram
Hard Drive - 10K Sata not running any raid config
OS - Vista x64

WoW is running at 1900 x 1200 on my main screen and the 4 others on secondary screen split up with maximizer sharing a 1900 x 1200 space. Main WoW running from one Dir on seperate hardrive to the 4 others that share a folder on a different drive.

Current performance is generally good. Next to no lag anywhere except for Shat and the AH areas of IF and SW and maybe just a little lag on the starting are of the Isle.

So my question. What components can I upgrade to see a significant increase in performance?

Is there a new CPU I can throw some money at?
Would I see a large improvement with more ram? 8gig and what type?
Surely its time to upgrade my Video card, I hear that Radeon are performing well again, or should I just get the latest Nvidia?
I know my hard drives has room for improvement, or is it really worth it if I ensure I have enough RAM? if its only load times I can live with that.

With prices always dropping and better gear always coming out, I'll probably put this off until a month before the actual release of WOLTK, so I still have a few months up my sleave.

Thanks for reading and I look forward to recieving some good advice from the resident hardware gurus.

Thanks Fire.