5 toons on 3 computers, with either 3 or 5 monitors

[candypants]

Ok well im currently dual boxing on a really old pc, and am planning my upgrade to quin boxing, i was thinking it would be cheaper to run 5 accounts over 3 computers rather then 5, and faster then running 5 on one. The thing is, is this actually possiable? did some trolling and cant seem to see anyone running a similar setup (unless im being very, very stupid). Any ideas on making this realtivly easy to set up, or issues i might face would be greatly appreciated, and if its a stupid idea and i should just go and build 5 computers let me know now before i start buying stuff. :)


Cheers

Numbnuts / Candypants

[keyclone]

Hi CandyPants and welcome to the forums!

yes.. you can do 5 wows on 3 machines. this is my typical setup (2 laptops and a desktop).

you can use keyclone, one per machine, and connect the machines together using keyclone

ie:
http://solidice.com/keyclone/tutorial/connection_diagram.jpg

[Vos]

My advice would be to figure out how you want to display your characters (monitor setup) and work backwards from there.

[Tnarg]

I plan on running 5 accounts on 1 new kick arse computer with 2 screens (main char on 1 screen and 4 alts on the other) to start with.

But I want to move over to 3 screens (main char on one screen in the middle and 2 alts on each of the screen on each side with the screen rotated 90deg to have them in portrait)
To do this I might run one of the screens on my old computer OR I might try to add a second graphics card on my new computer and run 3 screens from this, this should make the keyboard sharing easy.

[candypants]

But I want to move over to 3 screens (main char on one screen in the middle and 2 alts on each of the screen on each side with the screen rotated 90deg to have them in portrait)
To do this I might run one of the screens on my old computer OR I might try to add a second graphics card on my new computer and run 3 screens from this, this should make the keyboard sharing easy.
This is almost exactly what i want to do

Having thought about it alot (and trawling various component websites, i have come to the conclusion that maybe one, much better computer is the way i want to go, still set on 3 moniters at least tho.... damn this is hard. lol