New computer build, AMD or Intel?

So I am looking to use all the accounts I got from Best Buy during the black friday sale but at the moment my computer cannot handle more than 5 at a time.

I have a Core 2 Duo 3.16ghz running 8gb ram and a 512 mb video card. I run 5 with no real issues but the problem is that I noticed HB/GB2 seems to stutter every so often and HB thinks that the character is stuck for a split second and then WoW unsticks and HB works fine. It does this more often than not and seems to happen when doing anything from shape shifting into cat form to autolooting an herb/ore.

I am trying to fix this problem by building a new pc that is much much stronger.

Would I be better served going with AMD or Intel for this application? I would like to run at least 20 bots on 1 computer on low settings etc.

Intel I7 980x Extreme 3.33ghz or AMD Phenom II 1090T x6 ??

Also putting an SLI setup for the video cards or crossfire setup, would that make any difference in the amount of bots that I would be able to run?

 

Intel Core i7-970 Gulftown 3.2GHz 6-core or Intel Core i7-990X Extreme Edition Gulftown 3.46GHz 6-core?

There is a $400 price difference but if it is going to get me an extra 5 bots or something big like that I would do it. I do like the 6 cores and hyperthreading but would I have to assign like 4 bots per core or something? Does windows 7 ultimate use all 6 cores effectively and all I would have to do is just open up 25 bots? Could I get more than 25 bots out of this processor?

 

Would look into a sandy bridge Core i7-2600K. There's some sort of defect in regards to the chipset's sata controllers which should be fixed sometime. Don't think you need a super powerful gpu, but 24GB ram would be good and a ssd or two. But a new generation of ssd's are also coming out pretty soon.

There's a couple of threads about people running that many bots on a single machine.

 

for amd, it's generally safe to do:

1 core for os
5 bots per core thereafter

 

http://www.thebuddyforum.com/success-stories/21472-margaux37-@-26-bots-now.html

26 bots right here. but he overclocked his 920. super easy to do on a i7-2600k as well, but mobos are sorta hard to come by atm.

 

amd for gaming

intel for everything else

 

intel all the way!