Quote Originally Posted by 'not5150',index.php?page=Thread&postID=150558#post 150558
But, you'll soon find a point of diminishing returns and the Core i7 won't be the silver bullet that you are looking for. I know, I'm staring at a few Core i7 cpus/mobos at work and a shiny new Falcon Northwest machine. Great for video rendering, but guess what folks still laggy in Shatt because of ... you got it ... a hard drive.

Good chip, yup. But multiboxing WoW isn't CPU limited, especially with regular quad-core. You may get a few frames per second increase. If this justifies spending the thousands of bucks on a new machine, then more power to you.
Good advice. People pay too much attention to the adjectives when they read reviews (blinding speed! blistering improvement!) and not enough to the test details. The result is that they end up spending 100% extra for 15% more actual, visible performance on the applications that they use. It makes no sense.

I think it's better to buy stuff at the sweet spot. Spend maybe $1000-1500 for a system. Then you can afford to upgrade three times as often as the guy who spends three or four thou. I'm looking forward to owning an i7 but I'm probably going to build a Wolfdale next month. The price premium for i7 just isn't worth it at today's prices. It doesn't buy enough extra performance.