Upgrading Processor / Motherboard (and new ram, since new MB is DDR3)

[JoeWunsch]

Thanks I appreciate everyone's comments, I don't know much about hardware besides how to go to newegg, sort by price, and pick one by a good company with good reviews

So I really appreciate and will use all the help. I agree I am not going to put so much money into it, if in 6 months a new architecture is coming out.

I am going to re-evaluate tonight and I will post what I come up with.

I am also running a Asus 8800 GTX graphic card, and at 4 WoW clients my PC starts bottlenecking at 90+%, with 5 it is almost always at 98%/100%.
And my FPS starts taking a nosedove with around 20'ish in Shatt, and low 30's in Battlegrounds. When alliance AV zerg first approaches sometimes it takes 10-15 seconds before they show up, until then everyone is invisible i can see the shadows and target though.

My goal is to get my main char fps to around 50, with the 4 slaves maxfpsbk set to 25.

Anyway thanks again everyone and I will post up tonight the parts I am switching to.

I'm running a 8800 GT, Shatt will always be a lag pit from hell, but a bg should not get you fps down that much, have you tried putting your alt's settings down to either medium or low?

This is actually with all my settings on low man, with 4 wows open im using 1/4 my ram, and im already at 90-100% cpu usage.

the 5th one pretty much makes me stay at 98/100%, but the 4th already kills my FPS. With an 8800 I was expecting much higher FPS than I am getting.

Thanks for the help everyone I really appreciate it, you guys saved me a lot of money. Also thanks for the heads up on the new chip coming out in 6 months (not sure if chip is the correct word, but you know what I mean).

I am going to look that up now just because I am curious, and I will def be getting one when they are released and around 400 dollars / or something reasonable.