Need Advice,new "dream" PC,no limits

[Freddie]

here is the dilemma in the i5 vs i7 debate, i5 removes hyperthreaded which takes away your 4 "logical cores" ...

I shouldn't have written i5. I was thinking "Lynnfields" and forgot that some of them will be called i5 and others will be called i7. I should have written i860 and i870.

[Freddie]

How much RAM will the i5's support? I know so little about the subject, but I'm curious if it will be multiples of 2 or 3, which could make a big difference for multiboxers.

The new Lynnfield CPUs use dual-channel memory, i.e., multiples of two, so I imagine most Lynnfield motherboards will have four RAM slots. But Gigabyte has announced at least one motherboard with six slots, the P55-UD6.

Off topic I'm curious what the projections (purely guesses at this point) are for the expansion and multiboxing... I wonder if these current i7 920 systems, like the one I have, will be able to handle the ever increasing demands.

I don't imagine Blizzard will increase WoW's hardware requirements for a long time, and hardware requirements of new games are being held back somewhat by the publisher's desire to develop simultaneously for consoles and PCs. So I think you're probably safe for a while.

But a year or two from now, new PCs will probably be able to run more WoWs than your machine can. CPUs with 8 cores/16 threads are on the way.

[Multibocks]

I think Cataclysm will up the hardware requirements. Not much, but Im pretty sure it will make multiboxing a little bit harder on one PC.

[alcattle]

I think Cataclysm will up the hardware requirements. Not much, but Im pretty sure it will make multiboxing a little bit harder on one PC.

They mentioned re-doing some basic graphics like gear and toons besides all the new areas. I feel if your computer handles Dalaran, it will be fine

[Fizzler]

If you buy something today it will be subpar to what you can get next year. what you buy next year will be subpar to something after that. heck a year from now we could be all hardwired into the matrix for all we know.

[rocnroll]

If you buy something today it will be subpar to what you can get next year. what you buy next year will be subpar to something after that. heck a year from now we could be all hardwired into the matrix for all we know.

What? Were not hardwired right now? I knew I took the wrong pill!