What is the minium hardware setup for a 5 box

[species6729]

Hi Multiboxer
I am thinking about going to a 5 box, I am currently play a dual box setup with 2 locks. This is my current setup
MSI p6n platinum 650i
Intel e2160 1.8 overclock to 2.8
4 GB of OZ 4-4-4-15 Ram
2x MSI 8600GT 512 running in Dual monitor mode expect when I am play a First Person shooter, then I switch to SLI mode
2x WD 500 in Raid 0
2x 19" monitor 1680x1050
Window Vista 64 SP1

Will this setup be powerful enough to run a 5 box
Running Main with 1024x768 (40 fps)and all my alt at 800x600(20fps)
I am using mulitboxer V2 and Octopus to multibox

I also have the option to run Tri box on this system and off load a Dual box on an old system I have lying around
Amd 3200xp
2 g memory
360 gb hd.
Nvidia 7600 GS 512
Window XP SP3
17 in 1280x760 monitor

I also want to know if I will be better off with a Q6600 cpu, a faster Dualcore CPU, or put in 4 more G or RAM, or getting a powerful video card.

I want to get the best bang for my buck :thumbsup:

Thks for any help or suggestion.

[Boylston]

Suggestion #1- Post in the hardware forums.

Suggestion #2- Quadcore CPU for 4-5 boxing (speed of cores is really irrelevant for most bang for the buck, just need more discrete processing units, a Q6600 is great value). 4+ GB. 8800 or better video card.

5-boxing with this setup works great, but can chug a little in towns and heavy BGs. It's a perfect quadbox setup, though.

[David]

Myself, I transfered from 3 and 4 boxing on a single pc with one monitor to 2 computers.

Now I`m 4 or 5 boxing with my slaves on my pc and main on my laptop. No mather what you do I feel the need to recommand to keep atleast your main on a single monitor. Working with split screens is a bitch and everything gets to small.

About your system, I 4boxed with far less. It worked for me but not optimal offcourse. So it`s more then possible.

[violent5]

I'm 5 boxing on my laptop. It's an HP dv6700.

Duo CPU T5450 1.66 ghz
Vista Home Premium 32 bit
4gb ram
Nvidia GeForce 8400M GS

I have all graphic settings in game on low. My alt toons fps are capped at 20 using keyclone. Sound is disabled on all 5 instances. I noticed a big improvement in performance when I switched back to 1 wow folder. When I used mutiple folders follow would break in cities, the game would run choppier in cities, and the load times for stuff like blimp rides was much much longer.

I get some lag in Org but almost never break follow on my toons. I use keyclone with maximizer. I set it up with one large "window" for the main and 4 small "windows" stacked vertically on the right side of my screen for the followers. I autohide my taskbar and use my entire screen but made sure not to overlap my 5 wows on the screen. PIP switches almost instantly. Generally it runs all 5 pretty well but this might be about the minimum hardware setup.

[skarlot]

from my own experience, it seems the CPU is the limiting factor when you go above 1 wow per core (with a e6700 @ 3.33 ghz)... 4 instances on a 1920x1200 screen got me about 30FPS if i recall under Vista 64 with a 8800 gts... pretty lousy.

really I'm only happy with refresh rate FPS so I was dissapointed when I bought a 280 GTX and couldn't even get that for 2 instances, again under Vista64 (main on 1920x1200, 1x alt on 1280x1024). Vista is just shit for FPS, that's my conclusion since even my 7800 GTX got better FPS under XP!

i dunno about those 8600's, but i'd get a quad core!

[species6729]

found this in an old posting

My journey handleveling 5x shamans using RaF and one weak computer ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=11809')

Hardware
2ghz single processor
2gb ram
Nvidia 6600 GT
Two 19" flatscreens
Going into orgrimmar really screws up my shitty comp but I have no troubles questing, going to questhubs, thunderbluff - it runs good enough for me to
have no issue with it. I am now level 56 with all my 5 characters since a week back (I haven't been able to play since last tuesday) and I did 1-56 from friday-tuesday,
long sittings which frankly made me stop for a while to sort other things out. Only about 2 days and a few hours played which is faster then I ever anticipated since this
is my first time around multiboxing.

give me hope my current setup will be good enough for a 5 box.