Quote Originally Posted by 'Chorizotarian',index.php?page=Thread&postID=63794 #post63794


Quote Originally Posted by 'Bovidae',index.php?page=Thread&postID=63777#post6 3777
If at all possible, do no cross the gap of this dual dual-core chip. Remember, the Q6600 is basicly 2 core2duos on 1 die. There is a bus between cores#0/1 and cores#2/3, but the link between these two chips is considerably weaker.
Can you explain this more? How do we avoid "crossing the gap"?
Setting a processes affinity to cores#0/2 or 1/2 or 1/3 (one core from each of the chips) would be theoretically lower performance than selecting cores#0/1 or cores#2/3. This would apply to any application capable of utilizing two cores.

Since WoW has such crappy dual core utilization to begin with, I suspect it's not that big of a deal, especially if you play with the sound off.

Main With Sound - Core 1/2
Alt1 - Core 3
Alt2 - Core 3
Alt3 - Core 4
Alt4 - Core 4

would probably be the best split for 5 boxing. To get a little more anal, you can force all your peripheral programs to the second core, because the Main WoW utilizes the first core A LOT MORE than the second core. Because of this, I force Ventrilo, Firefox, VLC onto the second core which is only running the MainWoW Sound.

ps/fyi: Intel/Windows starts counting cores at 0, so your quad core processor has cores 0, 1, 2, and 3