Hey all. I've been lurking here on and off for a short while. I'm currently 4-boxing on one machine and it works well for the most part. I don't get very good FPS but good enough to 4-box with all screens showing. I get crashes here and there; mostly when flying but ocassionally in instances and just running around.

I saw a thread not long ago where someone mentioned single-pc bottlenecks often being ram and HDD access. I found some ram cheap and bought a second SATA HDD but I haven't gotten the results I expected yet because of 2 problems.

First, I went from 2GB to 3GB Ram but only 2.5 is showing. I Googled a bit and couldn't figure out the problem. May have something to do with a /3GB switch but I had no clue on how to use it.

My second problem was that I have tried multiple WoW directories before on the same drive and all I had to do was copy the original. I never noticed a benefit to doing it so I stopped using multiple folders. I see the potential in using multiple folders with multiple drives but when I did a simple copy, no workie. I can launch the game but when the launcher comes up, it does not connect to Blizzard and when I ignore that and hit play and attempt to logon, I am stuck at "Connecting". For some reason, this copied folder won't work on the second drive. Is there something I can do besides reinstalling the game there and patching it to get it to work?

Additionally, I'd also appreciate any tweaking ideas (not hardware upgrades) for a 3GB, 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo (hoping to upgrade to Quad Core soon), dual Sata HDD (not looking to set up in a raid)), 2-22" monitors and 2 19" monitors, an NVIDIA 7950 GT OC and 7600 GS.

Thanks for anyone who has time to respond.