My Long Amount of Questions.

[TheoneJuggernaut]

Alright. I am really keen on being able to multi-box (3 - 5) Within 3-4 months

Now the problem Is my main computer.. It is a year and 1/2 old Dell XPS (Since my family had a struggle financially and I needed a computer for school , we were only able to afford to finance... so ended up paying HECK of a lot more for this crap then i wanted...)

The Stats Are -

Cpu - Intel Pent D 820 2.8 GHZ
Motherboard - Dell - Nforce 4 Sli intel edition - Nforce mcp
Ram - 2gig of ddr2
200gb - 7200rpm Hard drive.
Video Card (original was a 6200, I got the new one for my Birthday) - 8800 gts 768mb..

As most will notice and most have told me that my video card is bottlenecked cause of my cpu... and also I have been told I can not upgrade my cpu without upgrading my motherboard.. and this week I am calling DELL to get a new harddrive, since they never fixed the "blue screen of death" lock ups that happened oh so many times.

Now Since I wanted to start Multiboxing I was thinking of

Upgrading my main machine to be able to get some bulky amd cpu's and switch to xp pro or 64bit xp anything that can allow me to address little we bit more mem.

I will be starting work again (next week) and clearing around 1200-1400 a month then 300$ a month for my internet/electric etc (I am a helpfull child :P) so I am aiming to spend around 500-750$ on computer parts a month at the max.

But since I am totally lost on what I should do and usually buy the most expensive stuff I can find if i have the money for it, I am asking for help on what to get.

-- Also I could sell my current computer to my parents, 1/2 what I paid on it already in the last 1-2 years (will be around 750-1k$ sale) and I keep the Video card.


Basically Totally lost atm on what to do. But all I know is I want to have a main "power house" of a computer or one able to become a power house..

If anyone can help me or explain to me what I should do to my current machine and what upgrades I could get (mobo - cpu) that would be great.

and I live in canada so any websites posted - need to ship to canada (but most I see do ship)

Thanks :D and I am totally happy I tripped over this website :D

[Djarid]

Looks like just a CPU upgrade from where I am sitting.

the rest of your system should handle at least 3 instances.

[beyond-tec]

Cpu - Intel Pent D 820 2.8 GHZ
Motherboard - Dell - Nforce 4 Sli intel edition - Nforce mcp
Ram - 2gig of ddr2
200gb - 7200rpm Hard drive.
Video Card (original was a 6200, I got the new one for my Birthday) - 8800 gts 768mb..


you need more performance than my main pc:

AMD 6000 X2 WINDSOR (2MB Cache) BOXED
ASUS M2A-VM HDMI
RAM: 3GB DDR2 PC800
HD 320GB 16MB Cache
GFX: EVGA e-GeForce 8600GT Superclocked 256MB

because my system is close to a crash when I 5-box.

your gfx card is perfect. Try to get a quad-core processor and 3 GB of RAM. It should work perfectly.

[Lost Ninja]

64 bit will handle more ram! :)

But driver issues could ruin your game! :(

[Djarid]

I am running 3 chars atm on this setup

Athlon x2 4600 (dual core at 2.4Ghz)
2 Gb DDR2
Radeon 1950XT

I also have a radeon 2400 pro in the machine but that is to drive non-wow monitors

[TheoneJuggernaut]

Should I just make a new box with upgrades (like pull out the 8800 etc) and use my current machine as another slave so I can run more games easier.

And for upgrading my CPU i do need a new motherboard right?

[Xzin]

You REALLY should not need a new motherboard to upgrade your CPU. AS LONG as it is the same socket, it should work. But some sockets are limited in upgrade paths. Now there are SOME quirks with that (and Dell can sometimes screw you here) but in general that holds true.