Core i7 Affinity

[Freddie]

I am currently boxing 5 wow accounts with 1 main account and 4 slaves on 1 account on a single raptor HD.

I am running them symlinked. My questions is that with the new Core i7 920 what is the best affinity to set the two different accounts to?

My current affinity is 5 on the main and 10 on the slaves... At least that was what worked best for me with my q6600 but now with this new processor does it even matter. What should I do.

Also I am getting about a 57% load on core 0 and on cores 1-3 i am getting about 20-28% load when boxing.

Thanks for the help.

If Blizzard still restricts the client to two cores then it might matter a lot, especially if you have hyperthreading on. I suggest testing by setting the affinities manually after your WoWs are running. You can do this with the operating system or (more conveniently) with a third-party program like HotkeyNet. You could compare these two schemes as well as the default scheme and see which of the three gives best results.

Both schemes assume hyperthreading is on.

WoW 1 on cores 0 and 4
WoW 2 on cores 1 and 5
WoW 3 on cores 2 and 6
WoW 4 on cores 3 and 7
WoW 5 on cores 3 and 7

-- or --

Every WoW on all eight cores

Microsoft article about setting affinity on hyperthreaded cpu's:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc300701.aspx