What looks promising is the scalability of ROF from 4 to 6 cores.
Since SOW is newer than ROF probably ( no guarantee) it will benefits from 6 core CPU?
(just wild guessing,of course)

I've always been in the camp of holding off major upgrades untill you really need them. After getting the A-10 Beta I decided to upgrade from my e8500(@3.6Ghz) to a q9400 CPU. (Don't know why I didn't go for a quad core when I bult my PC???)

Now with my new quad core purring along at 3.6Ghz there is a noticable improvement with ROF and A10 seems to have a few less stutters.

Hopefully this will keep me happy till SOW gets released. Then I'll get a more modern graphics card and see what the performance is like before upgrading further.

Cheers!

He he... I haven't bought a new PC in at least four years because I've been waiting for the specs for SoW...

+1
two and a half years here...

I had an o/c, stable under stress and tested for temp etc until it started blue-screening when the hot weather came along in Aug. I actually had to bump *up* the memory clock to get it going again. Maybe your o/c will work again now it's cooler? Its odd it crashes under Win7 and not XP although Win7 does probably put more strain on the machine.

dduff

I've only been waiting 12 months to upgrade!

My PC is now 3 years old...yikes....

Even my wife said last week don't you need to upgrade by now?...I almost fell over!

The only thing i'm sure of for a new PC is spending about £1200 with a 24 inch screen..

I have updated my bios recently and have now tried the oc again. So far working ok, but will see how things go in the next week or so.