Quote Originally Posted by bob
Thanks ppl you’re all giving good and helpful info much appreciated
Didn’t they recall a bunch of the top of the line Phenoms?
Also
Would running the 5xwow’s all on different hard drives increase performance? eg 5x 80gb vs 1 400gb

Thanks again
Intel>AMD anywho back on topic

5 seperate hard drives is overkill, I currently have 3, 1 for my solo play wow and operating system and the other two have the 5 multibox clients spread out between them. The biggest factor in running multiple WoWs on one box are graphics/CPU and memory. 4gb of ram is plenty. the 8800GT cards are excellent and the mid range or greater C2Ds or quads are plenty. PC6400 is enough speed for WoW, wow is just a hog for memory it doesnt really care what speed it is. SLI is definately not needed for this but it wouldnt hurt to get a board capable of doing it for a bit of future proofing.

Vista is fine but if you are going vista make sure to get the 64bit edition, no point wasting that last gig of RAM, if you want a 32bit OS just use XP instead, its cheaper.