I went all YOLO with some upgrades...

[Ashley]

I threw some money at my machine.

So some of you know I 10 box and have been for almost 2 years and today I thought it was time to upgrade my machine a little so I went balls deep.

My old specs:
i7-2600k @ stock settings
12GB RAM (3x4GB)
128GB SSD
2GB ATI 6970

My new specs:
i7-2600k @ stock settings
32GB RAM (4x8GB)
128GB SSD
6GB ATI 7970

Now, the problems we face as 10 boxers are the fact, 10 times everything. 10 times more gold, 10 times more fanboys, 10 times more quests and, 10 times the memory usage.

Running into the field of strife at the start of an AV will grind my computer down to a halt for a few seconds while all the models are loaded and I know MoP made a whole bunch of improvements to the game engine, it really started getting me down.

Hopefully the new hardware will solve some problems, especially all the extra VRAM (3 times more!)

I could also use the extra (20GB) RAM I have now to create a RAM disk for a few of the data files accessed the most.

Could anyone shed some light on other performance gains or speculate what sort of experience I will now get? My stuff gets delivered tomorrow ready for the weekend

Ash