5 boxing on a budget

[Grondir]

Hey guys,

Been playing WoW for about 4 years now and at most I’ve boxed 3 toons. Looking at starting 5boxing but my old pc is unable to handle this (Athlon64 2400, 256mb Radeon 9800XT and only 1GD RAM :confused:).

Looking to upgrade to a new pc, don’t have much cash to spend so basically I’m just wondering what is the minimum spec cpu and graphics I need to successfully multibox. Doesn’t have to be able to run max graphics or anything (my current pc runs everything on low)….

Thanks in advance

[Slats]

How much do you want to spend? And do you only want to buy a box and its internals or are you after a new mouse/keyb/monitors as well?

[Grondir]

Will just be buying motherboard, cpu, ram and graphics card. Will salvage everything else from my other pc. Looking to spend as little as possible, upto £500

[deadguyfred]

I just purchases an i7 (read 4 core) Tower from dell (studio xps) w/ 6 gigs of ddr3 for <$930 US. I 5 box my shammies/pally tank w/ no issue at medium vid settings. I have a crappy vid card holding me from running max settings (soon to be rectified) but overall im very pleased.

Deadguy

[alcattle]

looks like you are just under what you need for an I7 setup, but my currency rate is fuzzy.

For $500 you could get a Q6600, 8 gigs and a mid-range GPU. I think the P45 is the highest chipset for an old Quad. Figuring 500 pounds or Quid is closer to $700 you can get a I5 with a P55 board. They offer different RAM I think (Dual, Triple) but it is all DDR3 RAM which is little pricier. Still looking at a decent Vid card like a 260 or 48xx series. Price it out at your local/mail order source and report back.

[Grondir]

looks like you are just under what you need for an I7 setup, but my currency rate is fuzzy.

For $500 you could get a Q6600, 8 gigs and a mid-range GPU. I think the P45 is the highest chipset for an old Quad. Figuring 500 pounds or Quid is closer to $700 you can get a I5 with a P55 board. They offer different RAM I think (Dual, Triple) but it is all DDR3 RAM which is little pricier. Still looking at a decent Vid card like a 260 or 48xx series. Price it out at your local/mail order source and report back.


At my local supplier I can get an i5-750 + mobo, an HD4890 1GB and 8GB ram for £500 or with an HD4890 2GB for £550.

This should be fine for 5 boxing shouldn't it....?