How does the Core 2 Quad do with 5 clients?

[Oatboat]

Title says it mostly. Just looking for people with experience using C2Quad. I can either just upgrade my processor or buy a new board/processor/memory with i5 or i7 chip.

But if C2Quad can work pretty well then i would rather save some cash and just upgrade it.

What i'm interested in is Wintersgrasp and AV not really Dalaran because i hate that place.

Thanks.

[alcattle]

I have a Q6600 and it works fine. Put in 8 gigs and a decent Video card and you;ll be fine

[Svpernova09]

I have an 8400 and it's fine. If you have the cash to upgrade to an i7, i'd probably go that route, I went with the 8400 because I had recently rebuilt everything and was just waiting on a CPU upgrade.

[VonHenry]

I have a Q6600 and it works fine. Put in 8 gigs and a decent Video card and you;ll be fine

/QFT

I have the Q6600 too. While my processors are working at 68 to 75% most of the time I think it's mainly due to the fact I'm capped at 4GB RAM.

That said, I have yet to get my team to Dalaran or Icecrown dailies yet. I'm scared there....but I'm pretty sure it's RAM that'll be my issue NOT the processor.

One word of note, and others may have more experience I'm sure, I DO find that I have to be careful of the FPS settings on my alts, or my CPU starts to peg. I'm not sure if that's because of my lack of RAM, or the way WoW utilizes the processors.
(My Video Card is an 8800GT 512-MB, so I don't think it's my card).

[Cesare]

I have a Q6600 and it works fine. Put in 8 gigs and a decent Video card and you;ll be fine

Same for me, works like a charm.

Mounted through Dalaran --> no problem.

[rfuilrez]

I use a Q9550 and run 4 clients, but on a Hackintosh. I don't see any reason why it would be slow with an extra one. My bottle neck is my Video Card. Just a 256mb GeForce 8600. And I only have 4GB of RAM at the moment.

[Ualaa]

I was running a Q6600, with 8GB of ram.
Dalaran and Wintergrasp were far from smooth, somewhat annoying actually.
Unmounted, follow did not break here.

Aside from that, the game was playable everywhere.
I'd occasionally lose follow in AV's, if everyone was mounted and there were 35 other toons rushing forward.
But the game was definitely playable, anywhere a 5-man team would go.
Instances were never an issue, at least on the computer side of things.

Having upgraded to an i7 system..
12gb of faster ram, faster processor, ssd drive etc.
It's smooth everywhere.

The Quad Core system will work absolutely.
But an i7 based is preferable, if you can afford it.

[irun3mages]

Im running 3 clients on my single comp/monitor and its ok, no upgrades straight out of the box.

dalaran and AV are okish but not great, my graphic settings are down to minimum i will prob upgrade vid and ram soon to smooth things out and if i add more clients in future

[Trick]

I run up to 5 clients using Windows 7 64-bit, Q9450, 8GB RAM, and ATI 4850. Runs smooth as silk.

Only issues I ever encounted with follow breaking in AV while mounted was due to one or more toons getting out of range of Crusader Aura while the main was still in range.

[RobinGBrown]

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