10 boxing idea need pc help

[Eldi]

ok stats first

amd 6000+ x2
780a sli msi board
8gigs ddr2 800 ram
2 msi 9800gt oc 512mb cards
one 360gb hardrive
650watt psu
windows xp home 32bit

yes i know xp only supports 3gig ram

first 5 boxing i cant go into any town nor wintergrasp. what would u guys recomend? windows7 and then keyclone i know my pc will suport 5 wows but also should i make 5 coppies of wow be folder or pull my viedo card out of sli? i can run 10 accounts 15 fps each in undead starting area but not in any city. should i use vista ultimate 64bit (ew i hate it)? plz help im frastrated with my computer and dont know what to do.

[Enndo]

That setup can handle 5 wows ok with windows 7 or vista 64 to be able to use all your ram, but with that cpu dont expect much. Also as far as 10 boxing on that machine, There is no way to get that processor to handle it, even 5 is pushing it on that. For now id say download the free windows 7 64 so you can use all your ram.

[Eldi]

ok what prossesor should i get for my board to handle 10 boxing or even 5 and ill just run 2 comps

[Enndo]

It depends on your budget, you can build a second machine to run 5 more wows "decently" for about $500 and run 2 machines, 5 on each. Or you can build a machine for 800-1000 to run all 10 on failry smoothly. With the lower costs of everything lately I definately would go with a quad core, most likely amd as they are best for price to performance ratio. Somewhere on here someone had a post about running 20 WoWs on a single AMD quad core phenom 3.0 with like 24 gigs of ram lol.

[Eldi]

looked at my board specs and came up with this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103471 what ya think would that be enough and to pull it out of sli and keep the rest of my components? for 10

[Enndo]

Thats a sweet chip if your board can run AM3 you should double check. Also WoW cant properly use SLI anyway.

[Eldi]

hmmm i almost ordered it ill check real quick

[Coltimar]

XP 64bit can handle 8GB of RAM. My XP system can run 7 WoWs ok, but it is well under your specs.

[Eldi]

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-motherboard-sli,1927-6.html my board

[Eldi]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103471 is an am2+ socket there for should work with my board right?

[Enndo]

Im at work so i dont really have time to research it but i didnt see anything on there saying which socket that board is, in order to run the 940 deneb chicp you need a board with am2 support capabale of up to 125w chips.

[Eldi]

ah ok well i went to msi and its a am2+/am2 with am3 ready and has the zip file for the chip on msi site for it lol wow i make no sence all in all it should work according to msi.com the board is a k9n2 diamond

[Enndo]

Ok well as long as the board supports 125w chips your all set.

[Eldi]

i cant wait for this windows 7 iso to me done lol 70 percent done grrr but reinstallin wow sucks

[Eldi]

i would and all but it gets costly and im cheap. i have child support and a morgage and well ya not rilly alot of money to throw around lol but ill try one for now and 2 if need be after that i quit lol /wowquit j/k

[Eldi]

i fail epicly at makeing an iso disc im using nero 7 essentials can that do isos?

[Enndo]

I havent used nero in like 2 years, it should if you set the disc to data dvd i think than burn the .iso directly to it.

[Eldi]

tryed it and i restarted and blah all to hell no boot from cd

[Enndo]

when booting mash the f12 key a couple times than select boot from cd

[Eldi]

it is lol i found out it didnt copy right grrrr

[Enndo]

lol, let me know how you like windows 7, im using vista 64 bit and have no problems with it, but I am interested in windows 7 features

[Khemikal]

You need to burn the ISO as an image, not as a data disk. As a data disk the disk will not be bootable, and is well, just the ISO on a disk.

[Eldi]

i still cant find a iso burner program










i think my dumb a$$ figured it out lol

[Eldi]

well my new processor in processed and verified and according to newegg CS i should have it tomorrow :)

[Enndo]

Nice, your gonna notice a huge improvement going to 4 cores

But also you really need a 64 bit OS, having 8 gigs and only getting to use 3.5 of it sux

[Eldi]

new os is windows 7 64bit i like it so far and i know down the road ill have 10 pcs but for now im being cheap lol now for the dreaded wow install here goes 4 hours of my life

[Eldi]

new problem how do i get keyclone on windows 7 i tryed to unzip and it failed

[skwert]

How important would you folks rate the speed of Phenom CPUs for just 5-boxing? Sure it's best to go as high as they make 'em, but I'm cheap too. I just got an email that ChiefValue (Newegg's sister site) has quite a sale going on. A 2.3Ghz (http://www.chiefvalue.com/product-_-productdetails.cv_-_item--CE00153784010060) is only $90, to 2.6GHz (http://www.chiefvalue.com/product-_-productdetails.cv_-_item--CE00154895010060) for $130, and 2.8GHz (http://www.chiefvalue.com/product-_-productdetails.cv_-_item--CE00155413010060) is $150.

Currently I have the same CPU as the original poster, X2 3.0 GHz. It's done just great at 2-boxing, even in Dalaran. Upgrading the CPU should be my last piece before I activate the other accounts to start 5-box RAFing. Can one get by at just 2.3GHz?

[Eldi]

thanks for all the help my new processor the amd phenom 11 x4 3.0 ghz black edidtion came today and i put it in and first thing loaded all my chars in dalaran and same thing fps lagg. so i pulled up task manage and realized it was only using core 1 and 2 not 3 an 4. so i closed out my wows and went into keyclone and assinged each char to all 4 cores after trying multipule core configureations and im using 50% cpu in dala now. wooot