Best CPU upgrade for 5 boxing?

[MiRai]

I'm going to jump into this late and say that I highly recommend hyper-threading because you can see the difference in the Multiboxing Hardware Science sticky. Now that MoP is upon us with some slight updates I plan to redo these tests, but I can only assume the results will be the same. If you like eye candy and some higher FPS, hyper-threading is the way to go.

The thing that impresses me the most though is the ssd. This is my first one, and wow. I know it will probably die in a year, so I'll back it up every few weeks.

Why do people say this? SSDs do not die in a year, and if they do, they're under warranty. If you bought an SSD with a 1 year warranty, you can expect it to break because the manufacturer doesn't even believe it's going to work past the 1 year mark. Most SSDs have a 3-5 year warranty anyway.

Here's a 256GB Samsung 830 that's had 4 PETABYTES (Pic / Wikipedia) of data written to it as of today. Can anyone here even fathom 4 petabytes of data in a non-server environment?

IMO go with the ivy bridge, the sandy bridge has a chance of stuttering depending on your HDD/SSD setup, it's primarily due to the way the SATA bus interfaces with the PCIE lanes that are available, Ivy bridge is a lot more futrure proof as well.

I have never ever heard this mentioned before, but he should​ be looking at Ivy Bridge CPUs anyway as they're the bigger, slightly hotter, brother of Sandy Bridge.

[Alge]

Can anyone here even fathom 4 petabytes of data in a non-server environment?

Yes, that's 4x10^15 bytes. It's 1MB/s for 4x10^9 seconds, which is, of course, just shy of 127 years. Isn't Maths fun?

[MiRai]

Yes, that's 4x10^15 bytes. It's 1MB/s for 4x10^9 seconds, which is, of course, just shy of 127 years. Isn't Maths fun?

[alcattle]

I find that hyper-threading matters more in Videos than playing WoW. I am talking you-tube, twitch and embedded video. I guess Hulu and stuff from Fox or TNT also count. I changed to Chrome and it helps some (from Firefox) but my i5-750 is still working it's data to the bin.

[Blubber]

IMO go with the ivy bridge, the sandy bridge has a chance of stuttering depending on your HDD/SSD setup, it's primarily due to the way the SATA bus interfaces with the PCIE lanes that are available, Ivy bridge is a lot more futrure proof as well.

Can you substantiate this claim? I'm using a i7-2600 which is a sandy bridge cpu, never had any problem with stuttering.

[Jafula]

Thanks for the discussions everyone. I went with an i5-3570K o/c to about 4.2Ghz , ASUS P8Z77-V PRO, 16GB Ram and from the money I saved by not buying an i7 I got an 64GB Samsung 830 Series SSD.

The machine is amazing compared to my old one, the SSD makes everything fly and I can run around Orgrimmar with my main on high gfx and 4 slaves on low gfx with about 25fps! Yay!

[Multibocks]

Congrats!