I went all YOLO with some upgrades...

[Ashley]

I threw some money at my machine.

So some of you know I 10 box and have been for almost 2 years and today I thought it was time to upgrade my machine a little so I went balls deep.

My old specs:
i7-2600k @ stock settings
12GB RAM (3x4GB)
128GB SSD
2GB ATI 6970

My new specs:
i7-2600k @ stock settings
32GB RAM (4x8GB)
128GB SSD
6GB ATI 7970

Now, the problems we face as 10 boxers are the fact, 10 times everything. 10 times more gold, 10 times more fanboys, 10 times more quests and, 10 times the memory usage.

Running into the field of strife at the start of an AV will grind my computer down to a halt for a few seconds while all the models are loaded and I know MoP made a whole bunch of improvements to the game engine, it really started getting me down.

Hopefully the new hardware will solve some problems, especially all the extra VRAM (3 times more!)

I could also use the extra (20GB) RAM I have now to create a RAM disk for a few of the data files accessed the most.

Could anyone shed some light on other performance gains or speculate what sort of experience I will now get? My stuff gets delivered tomorrow ready for the weekend :)

Ash

[Multibocks]

When did we start moderating language? This a religious establishment now? Anyways, I'm sorry to report that 10 boxing on one machine isn't a good idea. I'm swapping to 2 machines even though my machine should be over kill. 4.6ghz i7, 248 gb plextor m5 pro, gtx 680 oc'd. Running two 24" monitors i do ok in AV. Just ok, i turned all the graphics to low settings and on the main i had out atty medium. Howling blast spam can grind my machine to 5 fps if there are a lot if on screen enemies, 8-10+

Edit: forgive the spelling mistakes thus site + Swype = poopy. Hope that was pc enough language.

[Acidburning]

Ashley, glad you are back. Could you post that method of which your hunters turned slightly and all your traps when out in different directions?

[Multibocks]

That would be awesome, considering I'm leveling my 9 hunter one druid team :)

[Ashley]

Ashley, glad you are back. Could you post that method of which your hunters turned slightly and all your traps when out in different directions?

Don't ask, don't get!
http://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/45136-10-Boxing-ten-pin-bowling-formation-macro-ISboxer

[MiRai]

Don't ask, don't get!
http://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/45136-10-Boxing-ten-pin-bowling-formation-macro-ISboxer
He wants traps, not bowling pins...

[Ashley]

He wants traps, not bowling pins...

Woops.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEPw8LJEbXE

Can't embed for some reason, anyway...

I've got a set view macro on all my characters but each hunter faces a different direction.

Go into your keybinds and look under camera settings and there should be a hotkey to SaveView, get all your hunters in the position and then do this to save it. Don't forget to save a view reset back to normal also.

Now make a macro to make them turn to that view and pass next click. When you use set view you notice the camera will slowly glide to the view, but if you call it twice in the same macro it will snap instantly:

/script SetView(1); SetView(1);

Have fun :)

[Ualaa]

So some of you know I 10 box and have been for almost 2 years and today I thought it was time to upgrade my machine a little so I went balls deep.

My old specs:
i7-2600k @ stock settings
12GB RAM (3x4GB)
128GB SSD
2GB ATI 6970

My new specs:
i7-2600k @ stock settings
32GB RAM (4x8GB)
128GB SSD
6GB ATI 7970

With DX9, a 5-box uses close to 1GB of video ram.
Chance are a 10-box uses close to 2GB of video ram, with DX9.

With DX11, that same 5-box uses close to 1.5GB of video ram.
I'll assume the 10-box uses close to 3GB of video ram with DX11.

Your old video card was close to the limit, for DX9.
Meaning it quite possibly was a bottleneck.
Your new video card, with 6GB of video ram, won't be a bottleneck in terms of available memory.
Depending on your settings, it could still push the card in rending spell effects, shadows, water reflections, weather effects etc...
But you can control all of these, either via Video Settings or with /slash commands and/or the config.wtf file.

I don't think Ram was a limiting factor, previously.
However a ram drive is going to blow away the access time on your SSD.
Which should reduce the stuttering, when entering Field of Strife or any location where a large number of textures are loaded at once.
There was a thread on RamDrives fairly recently: http://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/47886-RAM-Drive-%28SDW-Bait%29
Naturally 32GB of Ram is going to be better than 12GB for using a Ram Drive.

[heyaz]

When did we start moderating language? .

why wasn't the word "YOLO"edited out? That's filthy talk and offends me more than any other word.

[Multibocks]

Yes! If YOLO was left in... What could possibly be worse that needed taken out before YOLO?!!!

[Acidburning]

Woops.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEPw8LJEbXE

Can't embed for some reason, anyway...

I've got a set view macro on all my characters but each hunter faces a different direction.

Go into your keybinds and look under camera settings and there should be a hotkey to SaveView, get all your hunters in the position and then do this to save it. Don't forget to save a view reset back to normal also.

Now make a macro to make them turn to that view and pass next click. When you use set view you notice the camera will slowly glide to the view, but if you call it twice in the same macro it will snap instantly:

/script SetView(1); SetView(1);

Have fun :)

thank you :]