4 or 6 cores?

[Sam DeathWalker]

alcattle is correct. Once you get the wow folder into ram you are gold.

its not the I7 its the X58 that is the benifit.

I run 7 clients on amd X2 (30 fps in the field and 10fps in daralan (oh well ....) and under 100ms ping all the time) cpu isnt the problem.

All the lag is from moving textures from the hard drive to the gpu.

Although all my computers are AMD the only logical advise at this point is X58 and 920 (bang for the buck).

Get X58 and 24G ram end of story, once you have those two you don't need much of anything else to be of the highest quality for no lag play.

Buy in this order:

X58 MB with ability to go to 24G ram
24G ram
920
best video card you can afford (but again not needing top price stuff if you have other 3 items).

If you have 24G ram you dont need SSD ....