Adding a 6th

[Twiz]

As fate would have it, Frys is running an awesome sale right now:

Intel Core i5 @ 2.6GHZ (Newegg price = $200)
Gigabyte P55 UD3R (Newegg price = $140)

= $220ish for both!

I picked up this bundle + ram for $330ish.

Just a heads up for anyone who might be in the market for an upgrade. They had signs posted saying they were sold out. Find the ad in store and grab the item #; I believe it was on the top of the 2nd or 3rd page. Hand the # to a salesmen to check stock. They had plenty at the Renton store here near Seattle.

[Lokked]

If you don't mind ordering from EBay Corporations, The Ram Man (I think, some variation of this) sells Mushkin low-latency modules and is VERY cheap. At the time, I purchased 2GB x2 for approx 60% of market retail value in my area.

Also, I'm curious to hear how your networking issues have turned out.

[victor]

sorry to hear about your isp's in Aust Noxxy. in this day and age they should remove caps or make them a bit more realistic because downloading 2 video games, a couple of albums and a movie or two would completely knock you over the 16gbite cap. Sounds like gauging to me!

yeah Twiz hardware is getting cheaper no doubt. Some good deal around leading up to christmas. I'm going to update my main system but not until around february next year as Christmas is coming up and i don't want to over spend (haha). been looking at getting an i7 hyper threaded chip, an evga x58 board, 12 gigs of ddr3 ram and... i will review graphic cards closer to the time of purchase. maybe sli a couple of 275's or something. Best purchase i made recently was an intel SSD. Without a doubt the best upgrade i ever made in my life. I use that as my boot partition and run eq2 off it too. Everything else goes to the raided 1t drives for capacity not performance.

anyway, i hope that ghosting problem has gone for you.

[Twiz]

I finallly had a chance to run the team though CK and the lag was non-existent. I rebooted the router/modem and it seemed to fix whatever issue it was having.

So, everything is back to normal for the time being, just with an upgraded computer. Thanks for all the help and suggestions.