Quote Originally Posted by Pycno View Post
Wuho! Finally received my computer =) This thing is amazing, performs way better then I thought it would.

The interesting stuff;
Dalaran CPU Usage (5boxing) - ~75% (stock speeds)
Dalaran Mem Usage (5boxing) - ~75% (4,5gb out of 6gb)
Loading times are near instant, ~1 sec on slaves and 2-3 seconds on main. Dalaran is almost as fast.
Everything has become way more smooth then it was before, no more stutters and fps-drops/spikes, no more invisible characters that has not finished loading yet etc. Dalaran has become like Goldshire, it doesnt even feel like the computer is working hard.

Shadow graphics were turned down two notches or so as fps was rather low with it on max.

Eloxy, I have no idea if it will be worth it for you, and since I have not tried a quad core I cant know if it worth it over a quadcore cpu. The performance is really good and this extreme intel gives much more value then the earlier ones (more bang for the bucks). I did a cinebench rendering test and it finished in almost half the time as a core i7-920
Thanks for the feedback on your setup was great to get an insight into performance for the build you chose, as i am probably going for something similar.

although one question: you have the i7 980X six core? you say that its around twice as good as the i7 920 quad.. although the 980 is over 4 times the price.. yet you state that its much better value? or am i perceiving this wrong? i was intending getting the 920.. do you think it would struggle in dalaran quad boxing? or is it more dependant on the GPU?

Thanks again
Sly