Does CPU architecture and number of cores (past minimum of 4) really make a big difference, or do we have any indication that it will in cataclysm? I got my best performance in WOTLK with high amounts of RAM and paging disabled entirely, plus a solid state drive. Given a good amount of RAM where swapping never happens anda video card with enough power and RAM to hold all the textures, and a solid state drive to load them near instant, how much is left for the CPU to process? I may be wrong but I never thought WoW to be that dependent on just the CPU... can remember reading a lot of stories of people with top end i7s not being able to get the performance they were hoping for.... I never went past my Q6600...