How does the Core 2 Quad do with 5 clients?

[lordmythic]

Q6600 with 8gigs of ram runs 5 fine but the main is running at 60fps while the slaves are at 15. Dalaran is ok and usually around 25-40fps on my main and Icecrown is normal

[Tofino]

Q6600, WinXP,3gig RAM, 512mb graphics works fine for 5 boxing too - just have to turn the settings down in WoW

Yeah, from my experience the CPU is the bottleneck for multiboxing, since the WoW graphics engines are sufficiently old to run with no sweat on up-to-date video hardware. My E6600 (dual core) with 4G runs 3 clients fine with plenty of free memory and graphics card relatively cool, but the CPU gets pinned often. 4 clients turns it into a bad experience, and 5 clients is unplayable. I can turn the 3 clients video settings up without any effect, though. Looking forward to getting my i7...

[merujo]

I had a q6600 that i used to run my 4 slaves, and i had my main on my C2D. On TBC it was flawless, and even when WotLK came out i played without problems till i met Dalaran and Wintergrasp. It's impossible.
Having only 4GB doesn't help, but i think one of the major factors is also the HDD. Upgraded recently to Win7 and came to the conclusion the HDD i run my copies from is kinda slow, even being a SATA drive with 7.500rpm.
I just couldn't continue like that, so i grabbed an extra LCD, put it on my main pc and run 2 clients, my quad now handles just 2 clients and my MacBook Pro handles the 5th client.
It could be all sorted with 8GB on the quad? Probably. But the HDD takes a major roll as well, perhaps a WD Raptor may also help a bit or a SSD.

[ciscokid454]

Using a q9400 with 8gb and gtx280.
Works fine with 5 clients on two screens