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.

Quote Originally Posted by 3box View Post
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?

Quote Originally Posted by jstanthr View Post
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.