Well, I am running the E8400 3.0GHz Dual Core Intel processor. Correct me if I am wrong here but would it make sense to go Quad Core if games aren't even written to take advantage of Quad Core?
Would going Vista x64 bit be a better option? Will this maybe give me better performance?? Will the game even run at 64bit???
Apologies for all the questions, but yes...I am a little worried I have wasted my money. But from what I hear you guys saying, I haven't?
QC wont help WoW and for the moment virtually no other game either (over Dual Core).
Vista (in general, 32 and 64) is likely slower than XP for WoW.
All games will run in x64 (in x86 32bit mode) and some will actually take advantage of the 64bit arch, but this is rare. Generally a new system will be x64 and software will very soon really take advantage of it. Most people use x64 for over 3GB ram support, faster HDD access, faster media encoding and generally an all round better PC. However it doesnt really help games as much as youd like at the moment outside of some rare x64 native games (which show 15% FPS increase, which is very good).