[?]Building Rig for Dedicated HB Sessions

[xmdsx]

Hello everyone. The purpose of this thread is to discuss my intentions and ideas and get feedback from the community.

I'm currently working with 2 farmers, 1 shuffler, and one auction account running 4 different battle.net's and wow instances.
Hardware setup is:
AMD Phenom 9100e 1.80ghz quad core
4gb ddr2 1066 ram
geforce 440 gt

I can barely have these 4 wow instances running at the same time, unless all the settings are on minimal, all windows are resized to a very small window, and im not running any other programs. I currently have made well over a million gold since I began using HB and the profiles and ideas the community has given, of which I've sold some to recover the cost of the game, the accounts, the game time, and honorbuddy costs. Ontop of that, i've made a bit of cash on the side. Now things get fun.

I've recently come into a bit of money, and have a brand new budget of roughly +/-$1000. Now I was thinking of getting:
AMD FX-8150 3.6ghz 8-core (OC to 4.5)
1600 16gb ram
geforce gtx 560 ti

the price is roughly $300-400 for all of this, and it seems like a powerful setup for the amount of money, including all of the other parts like case, hard drive, etc, I threw together a rig in newegg and came up with a $700 water cooled powerhouse. The reasoning behind this choice, besides the price-to-power cost, was that with 8 cores running over 4ghz I would be able to handle many wow instances running at once, alongside this was getting a higher memory clock RAM aswell as a higher memory bandwidth for the graphics card. I was hoping this machine could power 8-10 instances of wow at the same time comfortably, even if all settings were minimal and all windows were resized tiny.

To the community, any thoughts at all? Why I should get part B instead of part A? Why farming on realm A is better then farming on realm B? Is getting into wow gold farming even worth my time? Before I make any decision I could use your opinion.

Edit: Another question and thought, if duping is still around, and alot of the items from the cleared AH are still being withheld, is farming gold in wow even viable anymore, unless one has a dupe themselves?

[Cecu]

I used to be big AMD fanboy, but since I obtained Intel systems few years ago, I will never think about returning to AMD again in the near future.

First of all, dont compare cores and GHzs etc, simply because that does not bring you the real performance you seek.

For wow botting farm you need only few stable things:
1. CPU with stable performance, which is able to handle 10-15 instances - Any kind of 4/6 core i7 should work, depend of the budged ofc.
2. Alot of RAM! The common formula here is 1GB per client, but with some tweaks, you could run even more.
3. 64bit operating system (obvious reason, 32bit are capped of handling no more tran 3.5GB RAM)
4. Good quality Powersupply - usually 650W+ - you buiding machine, cappable of running 24/7 without breaks for years!

Anything beside above are not important enough
- Any kind of midquality VGA, you can stay with your 440GT, its not great, but the bots performance is not directly related to it, so you can save cash off it, and get something really important.
- Watercooling is not recommended, you are running Intel after all, they could get OC on air fair enough!
- Having good case with working airflow is always a plus! Installing few 120mm coolfans inside could help too!

[xmdsx]

I thinking about the following:
FX-8350 4.0 ghz 8core (watercooled and OC'ed w/ high quality compound to 4.8ghz)
kingston hyper x 1600 7 latency 4 x 4gb RAM
msi 760g series mobo

I think i'll use the other parts from my old rig to save. The total cost of the above parts would be $179+$129+$69=$377

The reasoning behind the 8 core was because of the multitasking ability of being able to do more if needed then simply have 10 instances of wow and 10 HB sessions open.
Also was going with a new 750w psu. New Case comes with 6 120mm ports and 3 fans come with it, also getting 3 extra to fill for a total of 6.

My vision is a machine that could run 10 instances of wow and hb, with minimal settings and all windows resized tiny, and still be able to do things in the background without disrupting the wow instances or the hb sessions.

edit: would the core i5 3350 be superior to the fx 8350? benchmarks say otherwise, they are the same price.