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I am going to start a new team after trying out a few options with the following setup on Shadowmoon US (horde):

Pally
Priest
Warlock
Warlock
Warlock

Pally is the main character and seems to work well for tanking and buffing purposes. Priest, well because I never leveled one. Locks because they don't need food with a healer on-board.

I installed Windows 7 Ultimate on the Shuttle sx48p to see how it compared to Vista 64. Install of Win 7 is completely smooth and takes about 30mins with almost no interaction. All the hardware is properly identified and other then video drivers which are immediately available via the Windows Update on first restart the system is up with no drama or half a day worth of driver installs when using Vista 64.

pwnboxer works on Windows 7 Ultimate out of the box with no visible issues...

For reference I installed HWMonitor (CPUID) to get a sense of temps while running 5-wows with stock everything and no overclocking.

Here are temps I am seeing.

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 (stock 3GHz clock) - 60-63 C
GeForcce 9800 GTX+ - 60-63 C
OS HDD (WD16000JD) - 45-47 C

Here is a system spec that should be able to run a 5-way setup comfortably:

Requirements:
- small footprint (don't need another huge box under the desk)
- simple, no need for massive overclocking options


Hardware Components:
- 2x - Samsung monitors
- 1x - Shuttle SX48P Deluxe (Newegg.com - Shuttle Prima XPC SX48P2-Deluxe Intel Socket T(LGA775) Intel X48 4 x 240Pin none Black Barebone - Barebone Systems)
- 1x - PNY VCG98GTXPXPB...