Quote Originally Posted by Owltoid View Post
I'm surprised how many are suggesting two SSDs. I run 5 on my machine with the cheapo RiData 32GB MLC version and everything is smooth. The ONLY time there is a bit of lag is when WG is coming to the very end and everything is going nuts... that could definitely be lag other than my harddrive (note: it's still very playable, but there can be a couple seconds of small stuttering).

Peeps are going overboard with the expensive SSDs, RAID configs, etc.
What's considered overboard for you is considered quality of play for me.

When I hearth into dalaran at peak time, I'm still expecting a load delay of about 1-2 sec max for all 5 instances to.
Is it over kill to do 2 x GTX 285, 12 gigs of ram, Intel x-25 (G1) in raid 0 and 3 monitors?
Mind you, when fully loaded down, both cards have their 896MB used up with textures, 8 gigs of system memory used.
Both cards are being loaded down memory wise, GPU utilization at 40-50% (1 powering main screen and 1 for 2 side monitor).

Maybe but to me it's again, quality of playing time.