IMO if you are looking at 2 9800GTX cards you shouldn't be saying you can't afford the monthly fees.


That said, you don't need much video horsepower to run wow, it's not that graphically intensive. CPU power and RAM is all you need to boost. Your video card will run 2 monitors very well, with either a 4x1 setup for 5 boxing, or whatever you want.

You can try it out free with trial accounts (do the recruit a friend trick) up to at least lvl 20 for 10 days. That should be ample time to see if you computer can handle it, and get some basic macros and groups going. If you decide to continue, buy retail copies of the game ($40 battlechest) and transfer your toons, (if you want to jump right in with your 3 toons). You can also continue to level up your trial toons, if you want to keep em as a group.