5 in 1 PC idea for multi boxers

[samuraicow]

Just had an idea.. what if you would asumble some rather cheep\small\weak pc for the purpse of running a secendery wow copy, pc in micro atx form factor, not much larger then cd drive.. then take 4 of this and put them in the same case of a regular pc (total 5), you can have there in\out puts faced inwords the case and have your KVM there doing the job, they could be running striped verion of win xp (thanks to vlite) with the minmal wow settings pushed to the extream:

like after putting the gfx setting to minimum\off use this as a macro to even gimp the setting farther (wonder if negative setting works =p)
/console groundEffectDensity 0
/console groundEffectDist 0
/console horizonfarclip 0
/console farclip 0
/console characterAmbient 0
/console smallcull 0
/console skycloudlod 0
/console detailDoodadAlpha 0

the hardware I was thinking of is:
23$ cpu: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103197 AMD Sempron LE-1100 Sparta 1.9GHz
8$(4$*2) ram: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145528 1gb ddr2
62$ motherbord: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131281R ASUS M3N78-EMH HDMI AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 8200 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
35$ HD http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148253R 80gb notebook hd
13$ psu: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817152019 380w
no screen\mouse\keybord

just need to add a fetting pc case and the boxing hardware, whats your take?


then again it might be more "prety" to put 5 mini mac on top of echader =p
http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/248/2041/1461/store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/macmini/img/product-product.jpg

[Negativ1337]

/console groundEffectDensity 0
/console groundEffectDist 0
/console horizonfarclip 0
/console farclip 0
/console characterAmbient 0
/console smallcull 0
/console skycloudlod 0
/console detailDoodadAlpha 0

Shouldn't make farclip 0, because then when your leveling its like your in smog, you only see mobs/alliance appear from like 30 yards.
I like to see far in the horizon, so i can see whats coming

[samuraicow]

/console groundEffectDensity 0
/console groundEffectDist 0
/console horizonfarclip 0
/console farclip 0
/console characterAmbient 0
/console smallcull 0
/console skycloudlod 0
/console detailDoodadAlpha 0

Shouldn't make farclip 0, because then when your leveling its like your in smog, you only see mobs/alliance appear from like 30 yards.
I like to see far in the horizon, so i can see whats coming

yes man but thats the setting for the other boxes a side of your main, you know.. the one whom's hardware suck and dont have monitor any ways?

[Gomotron]

then again it might be more "prety" to put 5 mini mac on top of echader =p
http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/248/2041/1461/store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/macmini/img/product-product.jpgThe Mac Mini's use the Intel GMA950 graphics chip, which is too weak to run WoW effectively. Of course, it may work if all effects are turned down/off, but then again, I like to see what's going on on each computer and personally I think it would drive me nuts.

[Qlimax]

There are some ITX motherboards that are meant for media center pcs that are quite quite small. Your idea may work with those, or you could get 4 shuttle pcs and stack them next to your main, or go all out and get a rackmount server

[Fizzler]

There are some ITX motherboards that are meant for media center pcs that are quite quite small. Your idea may work with those, or you could get 4 shuttle pcs and stack them next to your main, or go all out and get a rackmount server

I use a few of them ITX media PC boards. One of them I can run 4 clients on with nary an issue. Of course Shatt is a mess but when inst it..

[Ishar]

Unsure if your looking to minimize space, or cost, or both, lol.

Not being able to see my alts windows (when i want to) drives me nuts. and lets face it, sooner or later, your main is gonna die and your gonna have to switch mid-fight. doing that with headless machines would just be yuck...

Maybe im biased (since i went whole hog and built a rack ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&postID=92699#post92699'), lolz) but i'd say aim for minimal, but still capable hardware. (300-350 dollar range per comp). You can stack rackmountable cases without a rack (just put wood in between each case). could do the same thing with towers tho. and a stack of 4-5 comps doesnt take up that much space. Doing something like the guy that built a cluster in an IKEA cabinet ('http://helmer.sfe.se/')is also an option. (kinda like what you were talking about with more than one comp in a case, but on a grander scale).

I hear shuttle pc's are loud, never used one tho. Course, people say that racks fans are really loud, but mine aren't, so who knows. eh. I just cant see building a comp without a 3d card LOL. If your going to run them with settings that low, well, you could probably get all 4 to run on one half decent secondary machine... I've never tried. I can't tolerate any lag whatsoever. lol. Also, this guy ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=13294&') seems to want to get rid of very minimalistic pc's pretty cheap; might be in line with what you are talking about, if you somehow missed that thread.

Just my thoughts, if you do it, let us know how it works out, hehe. I sorta want to do a "Ikea Computer" but can't quite justify it.

[boxblizzard]

man u gotta see from the distance, be slapped otherwise :D

[Basilikos]

There are some ITX motherboards that are meant for media center pcs that are quite quite small. Your idea may work with those, or you could get 4 shuttle pcs and stack them next to your main, or go all out and get a rackmount server

The one main, four shuttles works for me. I've been told that the rack mount servers should be built from deeper cases so that you can put in what you want. But I HAVE been told that the rack mount systems do well in this case.