well, I'll give it a shot with the FX, since Eta on the order is Tues next week. If results are disappointing, I can always return it and say it's a bad cpu/board. I'm really curious as to how itll perform as a multibox rig. I just cant see how an i5 would be superior running 2 wow instances per core vs. the FX running only 1 instance per core, even if the intel proc has obviously higher IPC. there are other popular sites that have benched the FX 8core cpu using highly threaded software and the FX came out ahead in performance vs the 2500k. So, if 8 instances of Wow are assigned one core affinity each, then it should get full utilization of all cores! I'll post results once I finish setting the new rig up.