While it's not "overkill" for 5 boxing WoW, the price is, at least the ones I Googled up after looking at the HP spec sheet. I'm a very staunch supporter of building your own (or having someone do it) as opposed to most manufactured systems.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16883227084

This product is about half of what the HP system costs, and while I don't see the HD specs, it runs very similar to the stuff I'm using. I'm sure you could actually find a cheaper system if you looked a bit closer.

I agree with Rob on the speed of the hard drive, and if I read the spec sheet right, it's a pair of 250GB drives that are "hot swappable". Get at a bare minimum a 7200RPM drive or a 10000RPM drive. You can save some money by ditching the dual SLI cards in favor of a single card with dual outputs, the GTX280 or GTX295 are good cards. I run 5 clients with keyclone to two monitors and I don't lag, my main runs at full graphics settings at 45 FPS / 30 background FPS, clones mid-graphics at 36 FPS / 20 background FPS.

Processor: AMD Phenom X4 Quad Core at 2.5GHz (stock, no overclocking as of yet) Got it on the 13th (last Friday) for $166 at my MicroCenter store

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 (year or so old, used to be the home for my AMD 5000+ BE processor, since it would take the Phenom I kept it). Probably eBay the board for under $100 now...

Graphics: EVGA GeForce 8800 Ultra (originally purchased in order to run Age of Conan at full graphics). Runs WoW with all the bells and whistles (edge glow, etc) and never slows down. Couldn't find one on newegg.com but the 9800GTX's are running around $150 for a card, which is less than what I paid for my 8800 a little less than a year ago.

Hard Drive: Western Digital 7200RPM SATA drive, 150GB. Probably the next thing to upgrade here. Data transfer rates are fine, but I really think a 10K RPM drive with a decent cache would do just fine. It's the worst item on my Vista Experience score at 5.7.

RAM: 4GB of Crucial or OCZ... Can't remember which, DDR3-1066 speed with blue heat spreaders. Never gets over 50% load even with 4 Chain Lightnings and a Death and Decay all being dropped at the same time. Oh, and iTunes and a web browser open in the background.

Monitors: Sceptre 26" for the 4 clones (4 800x600) client windows, still has room for the icons and "Start" logo on the left side, Sony 20" for the main toon. I sometimes will switch the 26" display to a single 1280x1024 and three small PiP windows to the right of that. You can see some of the setups in the "Screenshots" section of the forums..."Mah Droods" is the title.

I think that's about it. I've been building my own systems since 1997, and I'll never get a "pre-packaged" system again. Too much overhead built in, and a lot of crap that you may or may not ever use. It also depends on your location, as some places may only have access to a larger chain that limits the possibilities from a BYOPC standpoint, but take a look at some of the mom and pop type stores if they are around. Even my dad's hometown with less than 2000 people in it had a store where they would build exactly to your specs.

Hope this helps.