Running a 6 headed hydra as an experiment on the i7 920 rig I built this year. ATI 5870 video card (which is overkill for this game, GPU is not the limiting factor). CPU is oc'd to 4.2ghz, hyperthreading on.

Currently I have 6gigs of memory and running all 6 toons pushes the limit. I think I can run all sessions with higher settings when I get to 12 gigs, which I should know tomorrow when the extra memory shows up.

Other performance issues:

- The recommendation to set CPU affinity in ISBoxer actually hurt my performance significantly. As soon as I took these off, performance went back up.
- Disk thrashing. With 6 toons (main with most visual settings dialed up), I actually get pretty good performance until I hit a moment of heavy texture loading. Then it bottoms out. Even an SSD drive that runs the game doesn't fix this. I'm hoping the extra 6 gigs of memory will help, but this is probably EQ's biggest speed killer.

ISBoxer has been a champ.