which gfx card to choose

[Spudgun]

I'm still running five wow's on a single 8800GT with two monitors, each at 1920x1200 with no slow down at all on my main wow. The other four wow's are throttled to 10fps.
If money is your biggest concern you cant do better for bang to buck than the 8800GT standard edition. However the HD4870 is wowing alot of people like the 8800GT did when it was released so I may be changing when the 4870x2 becomes more widely available.

[puppychow]

I found that my cpu and ram were a bigger problem when running 5 clients. I lag every once in a while in big cities when approaching large crowded areas. It's still not enough to knock my clones off follow.

I went from core 2 duo e6850 to a core 2 quad q9450 and have been in love with my pc since.

Do you still lag with the core2quad or was that with the duo? Did you notice a big FPS boost when moving to quad? I've got 5 clients on 3 monitors running off a core2duo E6400 and 8800GT, I get 20-30fps when all 5 running on my main window which isn't bad, but I'd like to boost it up some more and wondering if upgrading the processor or the video card would get me the most bang for my buck.