How good computer for 10 toons

[MiRai]

i7 w/ 12g ram.

save yourself any problems or meaningless speculation.

I'm going to speculate...

Saying 12GB of RAM I'm assuming you are talking about socket 1366 i7's... which are over 2 years old at this point. Instead
of spending money on, at this point, a dying CPU/RAM combo he could spend about $100 more and and pickup a nice Sandy
Bridge 2600 CPU and a total of 16GB of RAM.

[Ualaa]

The trial account route is not as stressful as a pvp intense situation.
But it is an indication, and doesn't cost you anything except a bit of time.

Still, when you go to the Stormwind auction house on a Saturday afternoon.
And stand there with ninety three players, each doing their thing.
It is an indication, of what your system might handle or be lacking on (with the Perfmon tool).

[Shania]

Im getting closer to my upgrade.

cards we looking at are: Gigabyte 1536M GTX580 PCI-E VGA Card
cpu i think we are going for Intel Core i7-950 3.06Ghz LGA1366 CPU, not even sure what is the new or old ones, fiance has a better understanding then myself.

With ram, all I know is, its ddr3 and think 12 gigs, Im not sure if anything special about ram is needed to be known ?

I want to run 5-7 clients in cities without 3fps and hoping to have vid settings on at least good or next one up.

[MiRai]

cpu i think we are going for Intel Core i7-950 3.06Ghz LGA1366 CPU, not even sure what is the new or old ones, fiance has a better understanding then myself.

I'm curious as to why he has chosen a 1366 processor over an 1155 processor? It's something I like to ask people... kinda like
a survey.

[Bollwerk]

I'm curious as to why he has chosen a 1366 processor over an 1155 processor? It's something I like to ask people... kinda like
a survey.

Wondering that myself. Why get an older, slower processor?
I suppose if you already have the motherboard and don't want to buy a new one, I can understand.

[coglistings]

I'm curious as to why he has chosen a 1366 processor over an 1155 processor? It's something I like to ask people... kinda like
a survey.

no known issue with a 950, plus you can nab them at a cool 200 bucks. 1366 was considered the enthusiast chipset, while the 1155's have won out in the end, didn't mean there was something wrong with the chipset, nor that 1155's can always outperform a 1366 though the instances where this is true do not appear to be in a wow client case. also, with the 1366 chipset, you can achieve 12 gig's on a single channel 4*3 where you have to use both channels on the 1155 to get pass 8 gig's. not certain if it applies to 1155's chipset, but I could have sworn I saw a post regarding a slight performance in running just one channel instead of using all channels on the 1366 side.

[lightstriker]

Get 12 cores

[EaTCarbS]

Get 12 cores

Waste money on Apple products

[MiRai]

no known issue with a 950,

Anyone building a PC should know exactly what happened with 1155 months ago. The only way you're going to get your hands
on a non-B3 revision board is if you actively seek one out.

plus you can nab them at a cool 200 bucks.

1366 Core i7 950 - $270
1155 Core i7 2600 - $300

1366 was considered the enthusiast chipset, while the 1155's have won out in the end, didn't mean there was something wrong with the chipset, nor that 1155's can always outperform a 1366 though the instances where this is true do not appear to be in a wow client case.

This benchmark was taken at 1024x768 resolution so that the GPU would not be the bottleneck and the CPUs could flex
whatever it is that CPUs flex [in this case, FPS]. Source: Anandtech

also, with the 1366 chipset, you can achieve 12 gig's on a single channel 4*3 where you have to use both channels on the 1155 to get pass 8 gig's. not certain if it applies to 1155's chipset, but I could have sworn I saw a post regarding a slight performance in running just one channel instead of using all channels on the 1366 side.

You're absolutely correct that filling up more banks increases the time that it takes the CPU/Chipset to access the memory.
However, the increase of access time is quite negligible. The only people who care about filling up RAM banks are those
trying to break overclocking records where milliseconds may actually mean something.

As Kicksome stated, he had to upgrade to 24GB of RAM (from 12GB) when he switched from 5 to 10 boxing on his 1366
setup. My 1155 board currently has 16GB in it and I use less than 12GB with very nice settings on all my windows. And...
when 8GB (non-ECC) DIMMs come out I can upgrade to 32GB if I think I might ever use that much. Which also means
that you'll be able to fill up 2 out of the 4 banks on an 1155 board and have 16GB and not worry about those extra
milliseconds of access time by filling up all 4 banks.

Get 12 cores

Here are some 8 and 10 core Intel processors.

[coglistings]

haha, don't buy CPU's from newegg!

http://www.microcenter.com/single_pr...ct_id=0346210\

appears its onsale for $179.99. If you have a microcenter intown though, you can pick up an i5 2500k for exactly same price. no such limitation on the i7 950. mail order as you please

(there was also a bundle deal where you can get a high end asus mb with 1tb hitatchi for almost 300 but can find link)

the other things will need more research to answer without me just running my keyboard, but lets not forget that if you ever go for an intel extreme processor, you will be on the 1336 chipset, not the 1156. IDk about you, but I do enjoy hyperthreading that i-7's offer.

from this point, its really all just academic. the test that really matters is to actually get everything up and running and then report what you find to the community!