This setup good for 5-boxing?

[Coke]

I might get the extra HD then =D

But duo or quad....hmm.

[spannah]

On the duo or quad questions let me give you an example here:

In one side of town you have Acme pizza place. You have two dudes working there . Each can make a pizza in about 2 minutes.

On the other side of town you have a second Acme pizza place. Here we have four dudes making pizza, but they a bit of slackers, so it takes them 3 minutes each to make the same pizza as in the first location.

Fact is, if you have an order for 4 pizzas, the slackers would be faster:

At first location, each dude has to make two pizzas which will take 4 minutes in total for all 4 pizzas.

At the second location, each dude only has to make one pizza, but with them all making pizzas at the same time it only takes 3 minutes for all 4 pizzas.

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Now, WoW came out almost 4 years ago, so the difference between a slower quad core versus a speedier dual core may not be much, with graphics settings turned down and minimal max FPS. Crank the graphic settings up and you will be likely to notice a difference.

Move to a game such as Age of Conan, and both processors are likely to choke on multi-boxing, however the quad processor probably wouldn't choke as much.

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A note on dual HDs, even if you don't use Raid 0, they are still a better option. Fact is as long as the computer is on, the Operating System is always doing something in the background and many of these tasks involve disk access. Putting WoW on a second drive will free up the first for OS tasks, and you will have the second HD for WoW access.

Lets look at the pizza joint example:

At either place lets say the cashier, who also does paperwork and answers the phone, doesn't have his own desk, so he has to borrow a corner from the pizza making counter. Wouldn't it be better if this person had his own desk?

[Freddie]

I just made a list on newegg on a PC I might get, should it work and be fine for 5 boxing?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131225
Intel 2 Core QuadQ9450 2.66ghz
EVGA 8800gts
8g (4x2g) RAM
WD 640gig HD
750 watt power supply (Corsair)
Thanks

Definitely get a quad. Duo's may be better for playing a single game, but you're playing five games at a time.

The 8800GTS became obsolete yesterday when AMD released the HD4850. I would get that instead. I bought an 8800GTS myself last month, so I don't say this cheefully. You picked a good brand.

I just bought a Western Digital hard drive today myself, except I got the 750 GB model (AAKS) instead of the 640. At today's prices I think the 750 is the sweet spot. Newegg is selling it today with free shipping. Edit: My math was wrong, the 640 is cheaper per GB than the 750.

Corsair makes good power supplies (and you need a good one) but 750 watts is overkill for these components.

[Coke]

Okay, I'll get the extra HD, what is Raid 0 though?
I'm going with quad.

I also found this coolermaster case and it had a combo with a 1k watt powersupply, guess I should take that out then >.<

[Coke]

Would I need a mobo with PCI Express 2.0 slots for the 4850?
Or will PCI Express x 16 work?

[Freddie]

PCI-E 2.0 is forward and backward compatible with 1.x, so it should work. If you look at customer reviews on Newegg for various HD4850s, you might be able to find one that says, "I put this card in my XYZ motherboard and it works," and that would confirm it.

More news: Nvidia dropped the price of the 9800GTX to make it competitive with the HD4850 so that's another choice. But the HD4850 is already selling at a discount (Best Buy had some in stores yesterday at $150!) plus the HD4850 is probably going to get faster when its drivers mature, so I'd still go with the AMD.

[Coke]

Yeah I saw they had the 9800gtx for 199.99, do I need a AMD processor with the 4850?

[Freddie]

No.

[Coke]

Okay sweet, I found a combo deal with the 4850 and a good mobo, saved like 50 bucks too.
How big of a 2nd HD should I get to play the WoW's off of?

[Freddie]

I don't have all the WoW expansions so I don't know how much room it needs. You can see by right-clicking "properties" on your WoW install folder. Multiply by however many copies you're planning to install separately. Double that or even triple it to leave room for formatting losses, future expansions, etc.

Are you thinking of getting an unusually small drive? Most drives today are more than big enough.