New System - Multiboxing Limits(single system setup)

[Wolframium]

Recently bought a new rig was hoping for some wisdom on the subject of how many versions of WoW I can run with these specs without a whole lot of performance loss(Just looking to stay 30fps~ and not kill my PC aswell)

Power Supply: 750 Watt Multi-GPU Approved Power Supply
Graphics Processor: 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8800 GT
Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz 8MB Cache 1066MHz FSB
Memory: 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz - 4 x 1024MB
Motherboard: NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI Motherboard
Operating System: Windows Vista® Home Premium
System Drive: 250GB SATA 3Gb/s 7,200RPM 16MB Cache
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi™

I'm very new to this so I wouldnt mind any other suggestions aswell :)

I highly apprechaite comments made to this matter looking forward to being part of the multiboxing community :D

-Wolframium
-Emerald Dream

[Wilbur]

You can run 4 WoWs on that fairly easily.

You should get decent FPS :-)

I'm buying a similarly specced system soon ;-)

[kalih]

Five.

I run a similar set-up. You'll handle five quite nicely.

[bbelge]

Hello,

I have a similar configuration (the only difference si that I have a 8800 GTX).

Currently I am 4-boxing chamans without problem and FPS is quite good ;-) (~= 30 fps) using horizontal spam (the main on a 20" screen and 3 toons on a 19" screen).
It can also be used for 5-boxing (already done with an account with a chamy 40+ waiting for its colleague :-) ).

ps: ding first message :o) Hello everybody :-)

[Kyudo]

I'm running 5 on one screen with very similar specs except an 8600 gfx card. Averaging around 32fps on all sessions.

[Wolframium]

I currently am using Samsung 19" SyncMaster 940n and this is my only moniter.. My question is do I have to have a moniter for each character?

I'm kinda broke after buying this PC :?

[Gallo]

If you're 5 boxing on 1 PC, usually people like to have 2 Monitors. 1 for a 2x2 grid of 4 characters, and the other for your "main".

[Wolframium]

I thank you all for the informative comments made.

Cant wait to head over to mag with some of you in "The Zerg"

My friend said he would let me use his 17" CTR until I could find a good deal on a secondary monitor(Anyone have suggestions for 2x2 Monitor specs?) The 19" Samsung would remain my main..

I noticed some of you posted FPS quotes with your system is this with the video settings lowered alot or?

Thanks ahead of time,

-Wolf

[kalih]

I noticed some of you posted FPS quotes with your system is this with the video settings lowered alot or?


I run with the alts all at minimum settings, and the main with lots of eye-candy turned on. In instances and places like that, I get max framerates on all 5 (75 for alts, 100 for main).

In ogr and other places, I rarely drop below 40.

I have a very similar system to yours (Q6660, 4gb ram, XP-32, 8800GT)

[Bravo]

That seems to be a standard system people are putting together for using 4-5 accouts on 1 pc, myself included, I think you might wanna use 2 monitors though. Also I found running 5 accounts on 1 hdd really bogging down when you fly into a city or take the zep overseas. The final straw was finnially getting all 5 accounts off of the loading screen when the zeplin was pulling away from the undercity and 2 of my chars had to jump off over brill and died. I moved them all onto seperate smaller drives and it works so much better.