New PC Is finally built - What can it handle?

[Alcsaar]

8800 GT
Core 2 Duo 2.66 ghz
10,000 RPM HD
2 Gigs DDR2

How many wows can i safely run non-minimized on this?

[opt]

5 over 2 monitors fine.

[Wilbur]

With 2 Gigs of RAM?

I'd say 3 at a comfortable frame rate.

[TerminatriX]

need some help.
i have:
9800 gtx
2x 160gb HDD
Core 2 Duo 2.66 ghz
4 GB Ram
ASUS P5KC

so is this fine 4 5x wows appl ??

[opt]

i ran 5 copies of wow on a XP4200 with 1x7900 and 1xHDD with 2 gigs of ram. It wasnt the most glorious graphics on my other screen but i never had a problem with it my main screen and 1 client was pulling 30-40fps

[zanthor]

3 will be fine, 4 will start paging memory to disk. You need 3.2gb of ram for 5 clients.

[Alcsaar]

Thanks guys, so If I go ahead and hit 4 gigs of ddr2 i can run 5 no prob?

[Wilbur]

Grab a Q6600 as well.

[OzPhoenix]

Before getting my new beasty I was running 2.5gb RAM in XP32.

Definitely not a lot of fun in cities, frame rates down to 5-10FPS, but usually ok for most questing/instancing. That said, if you want good frame rates, 2.5gb won't cut it.

[Noids99]

Yeah double the memory and you should be good. A quad core would be nice I guess, but I run 5 instances easily on a mobile dual core and don't tend to exceed 60-70% CPU usage 99% of the time. Ram is definitely the limiting factor in your build.



Cheers