Out of horse power????

[Thulos]

CPU: My Q6600 has been stable at 3.2 on air for two years, Ive heard claims of higher. OC THAT SHIT. If you've got an extra $220 burning a hole in your pocket, the Q9550 would be a hell of an upgrade.

I had my q6600 at 3.6 for a while on air but dropped it back down to 3.4 because I was no longer 5 boxing on one machine. Even with a stock cooler you should be able to push 3ghz without any trouble. I've been running stable at 3.4 for at least 8 months.

Core Affinity: As stated above, WoW does have limited multicore utilization built in, but this is limited to running sound on the second (#1) core. Assuming you have an audio card, this is unnecessary. If not, allowing your main instance (or the one that runs with sound on) access to a second core, would be beneficial. Your affinity should be ok.

Are you sure it has limited multicore settings? I run with my affinity to all 4 cores and it gets utilization across the board. There is even a setting in the config for having affinity to all 4 cores. Now if I misread and you are just stating the only limit of multicore utilization is sound then I stand corrected. Hopefully all multiboxers use a hardware soundcard, its such a cheap solution to ofload processing from your cpu.