Quote Originally Posted by Brandish View Post
How important are available cpu threads when running all clients on one box? I'm thinking of adding more clients, and someone is telling me for 20+ I should go with dual hex-core xeons...which is nice and all, but quadruples (at least) the price of the build. Anyone running that many clients that can share some perspective?

I'd wind up at 16 to 18 clients if and when I pull that trigger.
Errr... WTF? It's highly unlikely that you need multiple Xeon processors. Shadowandlight shows off running 14 clients (while recording 1080p video) on an OC'd 3770K (which is a quad-core processor). Since then, I'm almost positive that he's upgraded to a 6-core Intel CPU and added a few accounts to his fleet.