Computer Specs capability and advices

[sash]

Hello,

I am a totally new to multiboxing after watching my friend multiboxing, it really got me interested!

Firstly, I am curious whether my laptop(notebook) is capable to run 10box(though for now I am looking at 5boxing but if it goes well, 10 boxing :))

Definitely, I will get another monitor for 10boxing which would be 1 notebook + 2monitors.

Btw, I have tried opening 5 WoWs capped at 60fps and it runs very smoothly, i am just unsure whether 10 is overworking my notebook too much. lol




ASUS G73JW-A1 Specifications:

17.3-inch 1080p (1920x1080) display with LED backlighting
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Intel Core i7-740QM processor (1.73GHz/2.93GHz Turbo Mode, 6MB L3 cache)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M with 1.5GB GDDR5 Memory
8GB DDR3-1066 RAM (4x2GB)
Two 500GB 7200RPM hard drives (Seagate Momentus 7200.4/ST9500420AS) (Non-RAID)



Secondly, I am interested to start most likely a 4shamans + 1 paladin toon or a combination of pally tank, retpally, resto shammy, lock + mage. I should be getting ISBoxer or Keyclone? Not sure on that atm.

Are there any guides for shaman multiboxing that is up to date? I am not familiar with shamans and totems but for the rest I should be alright ;). Guides like macros, configurations for softwares(ISBoxer/Keyclone) are welcome~!

Thank you so much in advance! :p

[Sajuuk]

Wet your feet with five boxing first, and learn as you go. Your current system should be fine. Search the site for macro help.

[Bollwerk]

Test yourself with some guest/trial accounts, since they are free and pretty easy to get.

[Sam DeathWalker]

IF its on a X58 or P55 chipset motherboard I can't really see any reason offhand why you can't run 10 with that set up, but you will have to turn down the effects a lot I would think.

If you tile with ISboxer you might have to run the slaves in reduced video mode as I am fairly sure you won't be able to render 10 clients at 1920 X 1080. Well I am sure you can't. This will effect swap speed but ... You are trying to do a lot with minimal equipment for the job.

Just don't expect 60 fps and you might get some lag following but I see no reason not to give it a go, you might be a bit short on ram and you will get texture lag with the HDD, probably in this case you should raid them or get a 3rd drive for the OS (I would NEVER raid the OS) and run wow from a raid but SSD is best.