Quote Originally Posted by fleaplus View Post
The SR-2 is a waste for WoW. The game is not NUMA aware so after about thirty minutes to an hour the performance drops to below what it would be on a cheaper i7 machine. Go with the 980x (or 990x?) and get a high end single video card like the gtx480 or hd5870.
Read the thread before posting. We're discussing a system for running 25 clients on a single system, not some normal five-boxing rig.

Not sure if the SR-2 will work, yes its 48G ram but I dont think either of the CPU can get to the others ram:
I'm unsure of how that would work or which CPUs get what, I was just assuming you'd get 48GB of ram( assuming 24 per CPU) of system ram available. How would you differentiate between the two banks within the OS anyways?




Here's an idea sam. Buy me a SR-2, 48GB of ram and two hex Xeons and I'll test it out.

For now I'll sit behind my idea of maximum performance for a 25 boxing rig accounting for the (undoubted) increase in graphics for cataclysm stands at:
SR-2
Dual Hexes (also for shits n giggles)
48GB ram (20GB RAMdisk for wow, rest for the system)
Either 6 single slots mono-gpu cards or three dual-gpu cards.

Keep in mind I like to be able to switch between any client at any given point in time. But then, rendering power required could be reduced by reducing the size and resolution of windows. As mentioned previously, requirements could be lessened further by eliminating windows swapping.


oh this is so much fun! Now I want to compare parallel computing of wow instances with nvidia's newer lineup vs amds.