5 box hardware boxing, question about Keyclone/Synergy

[bryce]

I'm going to get back into WoW multiboxing and figured why not give hardware boxing a try. So, I'm building four cheap $500 computers for my alts and use my beast pc for my main. I'll have two 22" for the main pc and 1 19" for each of the alts. My question though is does Keyclone work for multiple computers to pass the keystrokes or no? If it doesn't, what could I use to control all my accounts like I would with Keyclone on one PC. I know about synergy, which I'll have that to use one keyboard/mouse for the computers, but does that work inside of WoW to?

Here's the build list for the 4 PCs that will run my alts. Anyone know of parts I could substitute to bring the price down?

case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129042
hdd: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136320
gfx card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130419
psu: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139008
ram: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231172
mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131369
cpu: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115037
monitors (alts): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009148 x3, already have a 19" to go with it
monitor (main): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009145 (to go with the other 22" acer i've got lol)
monitor stands: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824995006 x3, for the two 19" on both sides (vertically), and 22" lcds in the middle (vertical)
and the fabled wow battlechest: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832127004 x5

total: $3,218.42 not including account fees

[bryce]

Anyone got an answer for the Keyclone question?

[thinus]

You need 5x KeyClone licenses, one for each machine.

[Dorffo]

My question though is does Keyclone work for multiple computers to pass the keystrokes or no?yes

[spannah]

Keyclone works for multiple machines, but like was stated before you need a license per machine. Option are hotkeynet ('http://www.hotkeynet.com/') or another software ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/index.php/Software')

As for the hardware, here are some suggestions:
Case and 400 Watt power supply = $110. I think you can do better by buying a case which comes with a PSU. You could also get more bang for your buck. Example:
Antec Sonata III ('http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129024')

You can do well with a CPU about 1/2 the price: Intel E5200 Wolfdale ('http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116072')
But I strongly recommend a better video card then the 7200GS. As an example for $12 more you can get a EVGA 8600GT ('http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130297') which would be way way better

And for $50 less per monitor, I would make the extra room for the widescreen 19 inch Acers ('http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009151')

[Catamer]

that graphics card looks pretty weak to me, I know you don't need nearly as much on a single box playing wow but i think you would be better off with any of the 9800 cards or an equivalent ATI card.

[Nisch]

Yeah if you're going to dump 3k into a system, you might as well drop $300 to get the Vetra box.

I absolutely love mine.

[Sam DeathWalker]

I use keyclone and it does pass to multiple computers, but if you are only running one account per computer then what Fur and the others said is right.

I run 6 accounts on each slave computer, 31 accounts total.

I use amd casue its cheaper.

Do not get the 7200.

[Ishar]

Hope this is not too little, too late, but my 2cents

Fur is right; buy a vetra, you wont regret it.

why don't you go with an amd dual core?

anyway, the general spill if your building slave machines....aim to spend about 50 bucks a component(maybe a bit more on a cpu), and get the best component you can for that 50 bucks. For 50 bucks you should be able to get a better 3d card...(I've heard that you should always buy mid range + card (eg, for example, 8500+) I have no complaints about my 8500's...but then I never tried a 7200. /shrug. anyway, 50 dollars a component should comeout to about 400 bucks a comp...(not counting a monitor) Also, do you really need a 500gb drive in each of theslaves? I bought a big box of 40 gig hard drives pretty cheap awihle back....(I don't remember the exact price, but i think i got them for 25 dollars apeice or something similar.) at any rate, a 40 gig will hold windows xp + wow. tho this might not be true for vista or windows 7...but 500 gigs is definatley overkill unless youplan to do sometihng with the machines other than play wow as a slave...

it might be cheaper to just sit the monitors on boxes...rather than buy stands. I personalyl got a 200 dollar triple monitor arm, but in retrospect I think I would try building a stand...if stand is the appropraite word for sometihng made out of MDF or wood that you mount monitors to =0.

add in 300 dollars for a vetra, and your in business.

When I went from 3 comps to 6 comps i think it cost me about 3k....but that got me 6 LCDs, 3 new comps from nothing, a vetra KVM and multiplexer, a coupla x-keys gadgets, and a ergotron triple arm.