Intel Core i7 Quads!!!!!!!!!!!

[puppychow]

Noids,
OCZ Core V2 60GB, 2 in raid0 (i.e. the cheaper stuff). This is my only storage on the pc, used for OS and other media.

You put your OS on the OCZ Core2? That seemed like a bad idea to me. I have the same drive ($100 newegg deal, even got the rebate already!) and I only put my WoW data folder on it. If the Intel SSDs drop below $300 I'll definitely buy one to put Vista64 on it, but until then the OCZ SSDs seem to be best-suited for read-only data files.

When you are playing WoW, if you have enough ram there really should be minimal hard drive write-access going on. Maybe some minor OS background stuff, any browser stuff (cache, cookies, etc) you have going on. WoW itself should be doing virtually no hard drive writing -- the only folders it ever writes to are WTF (upon logout), cache (logout), errors, and logs.

imo the biggest and greatest bang for the buck you can make for WoW multiboxing is more and more and more memory. Once you get past the 6 (or 8?) gigs mark you basically have Vista64 not needing to ever page, Wow being loaded completely in memory and not having to page, and Vista will cache all your data folders as they are randomly accessed. A SSD is a nice little bonus for slight speedups of reading the data\ folder, but compared to having a ton of memory its the difference between a bike and a car.

It really sucks running XP, as I do now, since you are limited to 3GB and you are pretty much guaranteed to be swapping when in high-texture areas like dalaran, etc. Thats one place too where stuff like the i7 will help out a lot, since there will be a lot of texture map movement between the GPU, hard drive, and memory.

[turbonapkin]

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[quote='turbonapkin',index.php?page=Thread&postID=1 53832#post153832]Noids,
OCZ Core V2 60GB, 2 in raid0 (i.e. the cheaper stuff). This is my only storage on the pc, used for OS and other media.
[/quote]You put your OS on the OCZ Core2? That seemed like a bad idea to me. [/quote]With Intel's writeback cache enabled, it runs like a dream.

Getting back on topic, some [url='http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10707&It emid=1']new info[/url] on i7 regarding TLB - this could be a major downfall for the first revision of chips, much like the TLB issue seen on specific revisions of the Phenom. If anyone has more info please post.

edit: Looks like much ado about nothing - worth keeping an eye on this though!