Quote Originally Posted by jnorland View Post
I know that step one is fixing or replacing my SSD. A few months ago I started having some issues with it completely locking up the computer and then failing to reboot.
That drive uses a SandForce controller which has had nothing but firmware issues.
You should look to see if Corsair's site has a firmware upgrade for you to fix the
issue.

Quote Originally Posted by jnorland View Post
I built this config about a year ago so it's a little datedand it was never top of the line.
Could it have been more than a year ago? Intel's i7 2500/2600 were out 13 months
ago and the i7 920 came out in like Q4 '08 and it hit it's EOL cycle almost 2 years
ago in early 2010. Unless it was in a pre-built system that was still hanging out in
stock, you would have had to look hard for an i7 920 chip a year back. 920's were
replaced with 930's and eventually 960's (if I'm remembering this correctly).

With that being said, I know Kicksome (member on this forum) 10 boxed using a
stock clocked i7 920 and said it became much smoother after his upgrade to GTX
580 and 24GB of RAM (from 12GB). He took a break from boxing months back so,
we can't ask him what settings he was running in game.

At the moment it's difficult to recommend a video card since the new AMD cards
just came out and the new nVidia cards in April are rumored to be super awesome
(and very expensive). Also, your motherboard doesn't have any PCIe 3.0 slots to
fully take advantage of the new cards; although, I'm not sure multiboxing World of
Warcraft would fully saturate PCIe 3.0.

That card in your system is only 1GB and 5 clients using DX11 can easily exceed
1GB, let alone, 10 clients on the same system. If you're running DX11 the obvious
suggestion would be to try DX9 and see if it improves.

Crucial M4 (want one), Samsung 830, Corsair Performance Pro (own one), and Intel
510 (own two) all get my vote for SSD.