I was looking at these threads today as I was gutted when I went to SW the other day and I got disconnected and had to move each char individually through SW to the stocades. Time for a new PC. My existing setup is a Q6600 as well, with 4G RAM, and just 2 plain installs of wow on 2 bulk 7200 rpm hdd's, with a 9600 GTS passive cooled GPU. Most scenarios are fine, but the slaves are all on the lowest of settings, and Main is on Good.

Had seen the Thuron(?) X6 1100 and thought 6 physical cores could be cool over the i7 2600K 4 cores and 4 virtual cores. Read a rather telling comparison review that made my mind up:
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/artic...-Review/1178/1

I've seen that the i5 is probably suitable for most 5x boxers, but saw some nice rigs coming under £1K with i7's so this is probably what I'll go for...