I am tired of pasting this into every topic, so here is a temp sticky for you! Small parts are offloaded, and quad vs dual leaves more room for your background apps to run.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...d=1&pageNo=1#1WoW on the PTR utilizes up to 3 cores if available. I would say it would be more beneficial for the quad at this point, but you want to make sure it is higher clocked. I don't have any figures to tell you if a 3.0GHz dual core would be faster than a 2.6GHz Quad utilizing 3 cores. =P
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...52627&sid=1#25It's there somewhere? It's currently not true as of 3.2.0 and 3.3.0. We're about to do some restricting in the next patch but that's somewhere down the line.wow supports 3 cores i found this information via blizzard support site
WoW is multithreaded. You have your main game thread that's quite hefty, a smaller but decent thread for some video-related stuff, then a bunch of small ones. They can all run on a single core processor if you wanted to. Dual cores work fine. If you wanted a quad core, more power to you. I built my siblings two dual core systems this Christmas and they're having a blast on it. Anything is better from my old college systems back from 2001-2002.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...378122&sid=1#3World of Warcraft will offload some secondary tasks to the other cores so there may be some minor advantages.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...88377&sid=1#17WoW uses 2 cores by default. There isn't an official third core thing where it just uses it. It *can* run additional work on other cores if you tell it to, and under certain conditions when that extra work is needed. I'm not sure if you'll get some performance gains by doing that but nothing is stopping you from trying.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...390131&sid=1#1The game is pretty heavy on one thread (its main one). You'll see a ton of load being put on one. ProcessAffinityMask basically just lets the operating system knows that it can toss other game threads on other cores if it wants to. Stuff like networking and sound don't take a whole lot of CPU power to process so they won't show up too visually.