DeathWalkers $1300 SUPER system!

[Sam DeathWalker]

CPU Fan $90:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Thermaltake-FrioOCK-CLP0575-Cooling-Fan-Heatsink-/380461532747?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item589546464b

Sabertooth X79 $260:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ASUS-Sabertooth-X79-LGA-2011-Intel-X79-SATA-6Gb-s-USB-3-0-ATX-Intel-Motherboard-/320965814858?pt=Motherboards&hash=item4abb0daa4a


64G Ram $300:

Egghead had some Gskill DDR3 slow rams for $280 (8G X 8) a while ago


CPU Intel I7 3820: $275

http://www.ebay.com/itm/INTEL-i7-3820-3-6-GHZ-QUAD-CORE-10M-Cache-LGA-2011-PROCESSOR-CPU-HYPERTHREADED-/271041081405?pt=CPUs&hash=item3f1b4eb03d

750 Watt PS $100:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/200471648435?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

nVidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2GB $200


So about $1300 with tax and all that for the guts of a super system. Whatever it lacks in video card or cpu speed the 64G ram (and putting all of the wow folder in ram) will make up for it.

I have not seen how many accounts I can run on it yet but I will in a few weeks. I get 60fps (two accounts) on ultra in org at prime time, with a 460 2G video card (I don’t have the 560 yet).

[Starbuck_Jones]

Ram drives are pretty bad ass. My friend built a system around a 64gig ram drive and cut his HD compiling from 2 hours using solid state drives to 15 minutes on the same job using a ram drive. It bench marked around 5,800MB a second. It was the first time we have seen gigabit Ethernet become a bottleneck as well.

[MiRai]

I wouldn't call it a super computer... but it'll be able to multibox.


Whatever it lacks in video card or cpu speed the 64G ram (and putting all of the wow folder in ram) will make up for it.
That's a bold statement.

[Multibocks]

My experience with RAM drives has been terrible. I hope their reliability has gone up, not really interested in paying 1-2k for another brick. :(

[Sam DeathWalker]

The system has 64G of system ram, you set up some of the system ram as a drive, you have to read all the info to it each time you turn on the computer. Its reliability is the same as the reliability of the ram in your system.

And it cost $300.

We will see Ill do some tests in a few weeks.

The 3820 is lacking compared to some cpus but still its a fast cpu, and best bang for da buck.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Good luck with the Sabertooth...and getting anything out of ASUS if it fails.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=13-131-801&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=10&PurchaseMark=&SelectedRating=1&VideoOnlyMark=False&VendorMark=&IsFeedbackTab=true&Keywords=%28keywords%29&Page=1#scrollFullInfo

I'm always leery of a PC part that has 20% 1-star ratings on Newegg.

[Sam DeathWalker]

I bought my motherboard from ebay and it was doa, sent it to asus and got a new one which works perfectly so far.

Took a few weeks and $18 in postage but its working fine now.

[MiRai]

I bought my motherboard from ebay and it was doa, sent it to asus and got a new one which works perfectly so far.

Took a few weeks and $18 in postage but its working fine now.
He's saying that ASUS tech support can be a complete nightmare to work with at times. They don't seem to have an actual US branch and you're dealing with people from Taiwan who, at times, seem to be speaking to you through Google Translate. No offense to anyone who cannot speak English (because it's a ridiculous language), but if you want to sell your product to people who live in a country that don't speak your company's native tongue, then perhaps you should hire at least one person who does so there can be some actual communication.

I would buy ASUS motherboards again in the future, but if another manufacturer like EVGA or Gigabyte offer a competing product that truly tempts me... ASUS will have lost a customer for that sale thanks to their off the wall tech support. If EVGA wouldn't have released 1155 boards late and then skimped on SATAIII ports on top of that, they would've had my business.

[Ñightsham]

I've been using ASUS M/B products for over 7 yrs now and for the most part they are very stable and worry free.
Currently using The Sabretooth X79 w/i7-3930K 3.2Ghz cpu 32Mb ram
Boot drive and wow drive are SSD's
Just added the EVGA 690 so I should be able to 10 box

[JohnGabriel]

I've been using ASUS M/B products for over 7 yrs now and for the most part they are very stable and worry free.
Currently using The Sabretooth X79 w/i7-3930K 3.2Ghz cpu 32Mb ram
Boot drive and wow drive are SSD's
Just added the EVGA 690 so I should be able to 10 box

They say the 680 is a better card for multiboxing, and it saves you $400. Check out MiRai's post here:
http://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/47716-New-system-for-WoW-10-boxing?p=365871&viewfull=1#post365871

[Ñightsham]

They say the 680 is a better card for multiboxing, and it saves you $400. Check out MiRai's post here:
http://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/47716-New-system-for-WoW-10-boxing?p=365871&viewfull=1#post365871

I guess I'll go with the 690 and see how it does. I'll post back here my results just for kicks

[Ñightsham]

One thing to mention is I use 3 monitors....
(1) 24" for main toon
(1) 20" for the other 4 in an 800x600 configuration (until such a time I implement 10 boxing at least)
(1) 20" set "portrait setting" for looking up stuff while boxing

According to Lax in his GPU management section over at ISBoxer, this should not be a problem.... Thus assigning the 2nd GPU to 2nd 20" monitor
....Is this a correct assumption?

[Grail]

Congratulations Sam! I know how long you have wanted to put the whole folder in Ram. Sounds like you are getting great results. I have a 2500K with a Samsung 64 GB SSD , 8 GB ddr3 1600, and an EVGA 460 2 GB vid card and I am getting about 20-30 fps after this first MoP patch. This is while dual-boxing and it was around 60fps last week. What do you think I should do? I would like to get those fps back up. This is at medium settings by the way. Or whatever they call it now.

So glad you got such a good system!

-Grail

[Sam DeathWalker]

Check if its texture lag or gpu/cpu to slow lag.

Spin in place so you have to refresh the screen a lot but new characters dont come into view much, if your fps tanks then its gpu/cpu to slow lag.

If it stays about the same (spinning vs. non spinning) then run through org or sw and makes sure a lot of new character come in and out of your view, if it tanks then its texture lag.


IF its cpu/gpu lag you need a faster gpu (although I use a 460 they are a bit dated, just got a 560 but have not installed yet), in your case. If thats not working then upgrade cpu.

IF its texture lag then your SSD is to slow and you need to get that wow folder into ram! Although I still have not even set up the ram drive (but I have 64 bit win 7 professional and it should be using all my ram as a cache I hope).

I get 23-30fps 2 boxing spinning in org.

Running through org goes from 15 to 60 lol ... hard to get consistent results.

But again I do not have the wow folder in ram I have to rewrite all my macros before I can even play.