Quote Originally Posted by 'zanthor',index.php?page=Thread&postID=45621#post4 5621
Thats the thing...

I've got ram, I'm not capping it.
I've got an 8800gt, it's no where near pushing the limits.
I've got fast hard drives, they aren't being pushed.
I've got a solid network connection, it's not being pushed.
I've got a dual core X2 6000 (3ghz)... it sits with both cores between 85% and 100% when I five box, my sound crackles and pops on both the game and ventrilo, if I move to the old world (Barrens, Durotar, etc) the CPU drops significantly and I run just fine... but since my primary 5 box team is 70th and working their way through Karazhan raids... I need to juice it up.

The CPU is definitely the bottleneck, the PCI-Express 1.0 slot that my 8800gt (PCI-Express 2.0) is sitting in could be a bottleneck as well... replacing the Dual 3ghz with a quad 2.4ghz should end in a net gain, and if by some wierd chance it doesn't, I just swap back, and throw that in my DVR system.
Zanthor I clicked on one of your team doublemint links and it opened up a shit ton of pages. I powered down my laptop quickly. I sure hope there is no trojans in that link.