Anyone 10 boxing with one computer?

[blast3r]

I'm curious if anyone is doing it. I am wondering if an i7 (maybe the extreme version) and 24 GB of memory could pull this off.

[Rin]

You could run 10+ on one i7 (though, admittedly, the most I've ever ran on the i7 was 8 at once). I'm running five now and most of my i7 cores barely even do anything. I'm sitting on 8 GBs of RAM, Windows 7, nvidia 280, 2 monitors, and a SSD just for WoW, all of which seems to be overkill. You probably wouldn't even need 24 GBs of RAM (I barely get above 4 GBs RAM usage with 5 active + windows + 5-8 internet explorer windows open + youtube in the background streaming music). If my other five accounts were still active, I'd try this out for you tonight and get back to you with some numbers.



Cheers

[Nisch]

I'm curious if anyone is doing it. I am wondering if an i7 (maybe the extreme version) and 24 GB of memory could pull this off.

I would imagine you could run a dual-quad core motherboard with 24GB of DDR2, and that would not be quite as spendy as an i7 with DDR3. Maybe then a raid 0 setup with multiple drives, and finally a good couple video cards.

With 8 cores, you could have quite a bit of legroom, and 24GB should be more than enough. The video card would probably be the biggest hurdle.

[Zaelar]

24GB is completely overkill. 12GB would be my starting suggestion, but you can probably get away with less outside of dal. Then again memory is cheap and if you're going this far you may as well go for more just in case you want to visit dal during primetime after a new content patch.

[Enndo]

I would try it with an i7 (planning on it when my build is finished anyway lol) I'm going to have 12 gigs of ram and a gtx 285, but I will probly get a second gtx285 if i decide its worth running a 10 team. Just make sure you have a decent power supply.

[Turenn]

I 10 boxed ZG on my q6700 with 8 gigs of cheap ass ram. Worked just fine. Shatt was a bit laggy but it was playable.

[Coltimar]

I've 8 boxed most of Kara, at 70. I'll try 10 later and report!

Edit: Quad core 2.5ghz, 8gig RAM, ATI 3850 video card.

[Phanes]

Just to see how much it could handle I had 20 accounts going on my system at once. I use

I7 Extreme
BFG 285x1
12 Gigs PC 1066 DDR3 RAM
MSI Eclipse Motherboard
Dual 30" Samsungs
Antec 800 Case with the dual 1 KW power supplies

At 20 accounts I was running high on RAM in dalaran about 87% usage and my CPUs were at 23%. My main screen with all settings on high and shadows turned off was running 80FPS the others were set to run 10FPS and they were all very small 800x600 with in game video settings set to low.

So yeah the I7 Extreme just eats the game up and asks for more the only bottleneck I could see was RAM. If you build a good I7 system you can 10 box it.

[Enndo]

Lol for the $1000 price tag that extreme better cook and clean too ;)

[gitcho]

I'm curious if anyone is doing it. I am wondering if an i7 (maybe the extreme version) and 24 GB of memory could pull this off.

I would imagine you could run a dual-quad core motherboard with 24GB of DDR2, and that would not be quite as spendy as an i7 with DDR3. Maybe then a raid 0 setup with multiple drives, and finally a good couple video cards.

With 8 cores, you could have quite a bit of legroom, and 24GB should be more than enough. The video card would probably be the biggest hurdle.I agree ... 24GB RAM is way overkill, and the video card is the bottleneck ... here's my specs:

- core i7 920
- 12GB corsair 1600 RAM
- 640GB HD 32mb cache
- Asus 4850 video card
- single dell 24" LCD
- asus p6t deluxe mobo

CPU and RAM are never the issue - I run 5 copies of WOW, firefox with 12-16 tabs open, 3-4 windows explorer sessions, and photoshop CS2 with 2-3 images open, and still have 3-4GB of RAM left -the i7 processor is amazing! I haven't been able to push it past 30% across the 8 cores (4 + hyperthreading) on normal apps unless I'm running hard core multi-threaded video encoding. I don't know why anyone would buy the extreme, as you can overclock the 920 by more than 1GHZ on air! My 640GB HD is a partial bottleneck when loading zones or instances, but not bad at all.

Video is a problem tho ... I run one main window with the other 4 down the right side... I'm forced to set all 4 toons on the right side to lowest settings, and can almost max all the settings on my main window, EXCEPT for view distance - which is set to lowest as well (or 1-stop up from lowest). As soon as I turn up the view distance on my main window, I drop to 5-7 FPS in northrend (in the countryside), and 10-12 in outlands (worse in shatt) and CPU + RAM don't change much.

[Mercurio]

You go, Sham!

Get that 10-boxing set up going and we'll invite a third (a lowly 5-boxer) and we can trio 25 man Naxx!

[Sam DeathWalker]

I see no technical reason that a I7 wont do 10, I do 6 every day on a way way worse computer (well 3.2g clock rate helps) with 3.5G usable ram.

I'm always full screen not tiled so for my playstyle (fliping a lot) video card would not be a problem. I think that you would want a video card with 1G or more ram.

Was a thread where some said that you cant get 24G to run reliably on most I7 motherboards yet, even though they are speced for 24G. At 24G you can put the whole wow folder in ram and that is going to allow you unreal framerates.

[blast3r]

thanks guys. think i may upgrade one stick of ram and try out 12 gigs.

[Hairball]

Check out this thread: Ma low Rig ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=21352')

[blast3r]

Check out this thread: Ma low Rig ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=21352')

cool. think i'm going to work on mine this weekend. :)