[Majestic_Clown]

nicey nice!

So whats the costs of what you got and what did you actually get?

[Shogun]

Great stuff, wish my wife was into games/mmo/boxing also, would be fun

[Vyndree]

Quoting Xzin's post since I think everyone's questions are covered in his post... :P

Originally Posted by Xzin

Very impressive Brings back memories. Except mine did not involve a woman putting together my computer parts with latex (edit: cotton) gloves on.

There WAS a woman involved. But more of a "oh hes doing that thing he does" rather than "our acrylic computer parts, let me put them together with you".

Actually, Suvega was very happy with his "death star" cases. He was able to put his 4 boxes together faster than I could put together the 3 acrylic ones. :P But, I've always wanted one of the acrylic cases, so I figure it was worth the effort.

I'd take a photo of my finished boxes, but I'm still working on the spiderweb of cables in the back of my desk. I'm not as organized as Suvega. :P

Originally Posted by Xzin

I would guesstimate about 7 - 10k in parts there, give or take the things I can't see (speed of memory, CPUs, etc). Seems like you went for a good middle ground between performance and cost. Which is probably the best place to be unless you want to go crazy. Call me practical but I see no need to do that for a non main computer box though.

The bill ended up being around 8k. Nice guess.

We ended up purchasing 8 monitors and 7 computers in total.

They run very smooth for WoW, and are BIG upgrades to the temporary boxes we were using before building these. I was using a higher end gaming laptop, my old college comp that just CRAWLS, and a laptop that didn't even have a decent graphics card. I was actually forced to never walk through any major cities due to the amount of lag I'd get on that laptop -- I'd end up losing my 5th toon who'd just stand there running in place.

Suvega was just 3 boxing his mages up until they hit outland, then hooked up his priest and war -- so he needed the 4 boxes. He was using HIS old college comp and his gaming laptop.

Originally Posted by Xzin

Stick those monitors closer together

The gap is actually so I can peek through and watch TV while leveling. It doesn't take much attention to grind through Arathi Highlands. I'm probably going to rearrange once I get to lvl 70 for PvP and all that.

Originally Posted by Xzin

And why Vista? *cringe*

Both Suvega and I work for Microsoft. We get killer discounts on all of their products.

I seriously hate multiboxing with those Vista "Such-and-Such is trying to access your computer. Allow?" windows -- only hardware mice work with those dialogs. It asks for admin access every time I start up fraps, too.

Other than those annoying permissions dialogs, though, Vista's working just fine.



Anyway, sometime after work I'll go dig up the specs for all the boxes for anyone interested.

[Runiat]

Originally Posted by Vyndree

Both Suvega and I work for Microsoft. We get killer discounts on all of their products.

I seriously hate multiboxing with those Vista "Such-and-Such is trying to access your computer. Allow?" windows -- only hardware mice work with those dialogs. It asks for admin access every time I start up fraps, too.

Other than those annoying permissions dialogs, though, Vista's working just fine.

Funny thing, the annoying popups are some of the only things I have been able to remove, which says a lot seeing as I can pick the brains of the students on Computer Science and Engineering line at the Technical University of Denmark (Scandinavian equivalent of MIT if you haven't heard of it).
Of course Linux is far more popular, but still..

Anyway, you're an employee you say? Lets see, Garlic, Silver cross, wooden stakes.. I'll be out in a minute!

[Yeti Detective Agency]

I was saving my first post to do a little write up on my multi-boxing experience and pics of the old desktop, but...

wow! :shock:

Both you and Suvega have an impressive setup.

Just had to come out of lurking and say you guys have an awesome build.

Great Job!

[Vyndree]

Originally Posted by Runiat

Anyway, you're an employee you say? Lets see, Garlic, Silver cross, wooden stakes.. I'll be out in a minute!

Neither of us works in Windows, you're safe.

I'm in Windows Live and Suvega's in Windows Mobile.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Very nice setup. I love when the UPS truck arrives with 'puter parts. It's like Christmas all over again.

[TheStender]

I wish I had a couple thousand dollars to spend so I could take pictures of a UPS truck delivery my goodies. Someday.

[penguini]

When the UPS guy delivered all of them inside your house, you should've said "Oh sorry that's the guy next door", then have your neighbor say the same so he would have to bring them back to your house :lol:

[Vyndree]

Originally Posted by penguini

When the UPS guy delivered all of them inside your house, you should've said "Oh sorry that's the guy next door", then have your neighbor say the same so he would have to bring them back to your house :lol:

Heck no. We were sitting there with giant grins on our faces like it was a second christmas.

Send it to the neighbors? No way, MINE!