1) Intel Duo-Core @ 3.0ghz - 8 gigs of ram, 800 or 1000watt power supply (I forget which but the thing is HUGE, I had to modify the case to get it to fit), dual 250gb HD @ 7200RPM and a Geforce 8800 GTS w/ 640 megs of ram video card.

I'm all about getting better performance. Running 3 boxes it works perfectly and I can run all windows on maxed settings. However at 5 I run at minimal settings except distance is maxed (So I can see mobs / enemy players). I want to upgrade the dual core to a quad core - I'd really like to get an i7 quad core but that would require a new motherboard and new license of Vista as they tie the key to the motherboard, bastards.

2) When running 5boxes I'm always at 100% usuage regardless of where I am. 1 box is closer to 50% I think. Hence upgrading to a quad core.

In lightly populated areas I typically get 20-30 FPS on all windows (I haven't yet figured out how to max my main and lower my slaves). In Ironforge it drops down to 10-15fps - I haven't been to Dalaran yet or done any raiding with the 5 box team. They're only L70.

3) Overall it is very playable. Occasionally slaves do drop off from follow which is irritating, usually its from getting stuck behind something in the enviroment such as a tree. Someone posted a mod (here) that flashes the screen when /follow breaks but I can't seem to find it now.

4) 1960/1280 or whatever the standard 22" widescreen resolution is (I'm at work).

5) I'm running them of all cores togather, I'm not aware of how to seperate them. For PVP however I would be interested in reducing my team to 4 and running areas with a partner, if I did that putting each instance of WOW on it's own core may make sense.

6) Nope, I'm still learning Keyclone.

7) Symlinked? Sorry, what does that mean? I run all of my instances out of one WOW folder and all using the same WOW.exe - does it make a difference in performance if they're in seperate folders? I'd do that if it does.

Hope this helps and if anyone can answer my own questions, I'd appreciate it



-Clov



1) what is the rest of your system specs? (i.e. how much RAM, what power supply, HDD and what video card)

2) how much CPU usage are you getting in capitol cities (excluding dalaran because everybody has problems there). what are they in 40 man raids? what are they just running around questing or doing 5 man instances? [just a rough estimation is fine here if you haven't done any tests or anything like that but if somebody were to test a couple of these i would extremely appreciate it!]

3) how playable is it? do you lag and lose /follow on your slaves often?

4) what are your graphic/resolution settings set to?

5) do you have your 5 instances of WoW running on separate cores or all running off both? if you have tested both of these then what showed better performance?

6) do you have your frame rate capped on your main/slaves? if so what is it set to on your slaves/main?

7) are your WoW folders symlinked?

if anybody can answer any of these questions it would be extremely apreciated.

thanks in advance everybody!