5x WoW and Vista 64

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another thing to do if you have 4 or 8 cores would be to set the cpu affinity to use 2 cores per wow, since wow is optimized for 2 cores, then spread the load evenly across the cores.

let's say you have 5 wows and an i7 (8 cores)... i would set it up like this:

wow1 - cpu0 + cpu1
wow2 - cpu2 + cpu3
wow3 - cpu4 + cpu5
wow4 - cpu6 + cpu7
wow5 - cpu1 + cpu2

note that i avoided using cpu0 more then once. this is due to the OS already being on cpu0, so i wanted to avoid the extra load.

if you have a quad core:

wow1 - cpu0 + cpu1
wow2 - cpu1 + cpu2
wow3 - cpu2 + cpu3
wow4 - cpu0 + cpu1
wow5 - cpu2 + cpu3

A bit off the original poster's message, but I was intrigued by the assigned pairings. I've tried both affinity to 2 cores and no-affinity (I run a i7 920 at 4.0Ghz), and honestly the no-affinity solution seemed to be running better, but perhaps I got lucky. Has anyone done imperical tests of the 2 options? I'd hate to be gimping my setup by mistake.