noob shizz this look ok...+question

[bob]

first post /wave

hi to all

i have looked over the forums over the past week after seeing Aelli's shammy vid, that was just crazy and i am trying to absorb all the info on offer.

conveniently i am due for a new comp, just wanting to get some opinions on what i am looking at doing (5xwow on the 1 pc).

what i was looking at:
XFX GeForce 8800GT 512MB XXX 670MHz
Quad Q6600
Corsair Micro 4GB PC-6400 (800MHz) DDR2 RAM
GIGABYTE, GA-P35-DS3R, P35, ATX, FSB1333, PCIEx16, DDR2 motherboard
running on vista 64bit

i also have a 26in and a 17in monitor, i was thinking i could have 4xwow on the 17in and the main on the 26in.

question time
Q1) in order of importance is it gpu then ram or the other way around?
Q2) 4gb or 8gb, or up the ram MHz?
from what i have read it sounds like a helpful and easy going community looking forward to becoming part of it

thanks

[Wilbur]

Thats a good spec for a 5-box machine, it'll work fine.

The most important thing with WoW is the Graphics card.

The new 8800GTS is great and well worth buying in my oppinion.

You'll do fine on PC6400 RAM, but if you want to make it PC8500 or so, then do it because you'll notice the diffrence for other stuff :-D

Best of luck.

[bob]

thanks Wilbur thats what i was looking for

[Zseth]

first post /wave

hi to all

i have looked over the forums over the past week after seeing Aelli's shammy vid, that was just crazy and i am trying to absorb all the info on offer.

conveniently i am due for a new comp, just wanting to get some opinions on what i am looking at doing (5xwow on the 1 pc).

what i was looking at:
XFX GeForce 8800GT 512MB XXX 670MHz
Quad Q6600
Corsair Micro 4GB PC-6400 (800MHz) DDR2 RAM
GIGABYTE, GA-P35-DS3R, P35, ATX, FSB1333, PCIEx16, DDR2 motherboard
running on vista 64bit

i also have a 26in and a 17in monitor, i was thinking i could have 4xwow on the 17in and the main on the 26in.

question time
Q1) in order of importance is it gpu then ram or the other way around?
Q2) 4gb or 8gb, or up the ram MHz?
from what i have read it sounds like a helpful and easy going community looking forward to becoming part of it

thanks

From what I see here everything should be fine with running the game. 4 gb of RAM is more than enough for 5 wows, internet explorer, windows media player and watching dvd movies in the background. I do see the Q6600 in there though and I have to say nay on that. Go the true Quad-Core route with the Phenom's and I can say you won't be dissappointed.

The extra money you save by buying (in my opinion) a better quad-core can be spent on upping your GPU to the 8800 GTS 640MB

[Wilbur]

Phenoms? Are you joking?

Phenoms fail, they simply aren't as good as the Core 2 Quads.

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=10427&page=9

Observe the Benchmarks. AMD Fail.

[unit187]

this is good computer for 5-box, but there is a weakest link - vista. Since vista does not suppot horizontal span you will get significant fps drop.

[Wilbur]

No you wont.

The DirectX Bug is fixed in Vista, you will only suffer a minor FPS drop from the extra resources Vista uses. However you do get nice sized Windows on one screen only :-)

[Zseth]

The Phenom= Win
Intel = Fail

Intel can say it has 3 GHz quad core processing because of the architecture. Intel has an L1 cache that goes to two L2 Caches and then those go to two L3 caches. So it's two DUAL cores smacked together and linked by an L1 cache. It will back up, things get jammed in there, and it slows it down. AMD avoided that problem by actually creating an L1 cache that went to 4 L2 caches. It creates less back up, they go directly to the cores which goes for more reliability, and more speed.

Therefore your silly benchmarks are worthless because when handling multiple applications the Intels fail because of their little traffic jam for information. I'll take my four completely independent processors that work together over the 2 crap dual cores from Intel anyday.

More so, I'd rather spend $200 on a chip that I can easily upgrade in a year when the 8 core chips come out rather than be stuck with an outdated architecture that will be burnt out once Intel realized it can't keep overclocking old chips and getting inferior results. My Phenom(9500) slightly overclocked to 2.4 GHz a core got a 3750 3D Mark Score compared to the Q6700 which costs almost twice as much which scored a 3800. So for $200 more I can get 50 more points with something that can't handle different affinity? AMD > Intel anyday of the week.

[Contents]

Ohhh, this looks like it could get heated.

/grabs popcorn and a drink

Round 1... FIGHT!


...I'm an AMD fanboy but I don't really have an opinion in this argument, as I have not worked with either of the quad core chips.

[MortimerDuke]

bob, that computer is more than enough to 5box on one comp.