Got some questions about starting up.

So I'm thinking of starting to 5box (don't wanna go any less so I can do full instance runs by myself), is my setup able to do it?

Hardware:
AMD Phenom II X3 7200 2.8GHz Black Edition (overclocked to 3.1GHz)
Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4 AM2+/AM2
8GB DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500)
640GB 7200rpm SATA
XFX Radeon HD 4870 1GB

Windows Vista 64bit

1 Keyboard
1 Mouse
2 Monitors

If its workable, I was thinking of char setups:
2 mages
2 shamans
1 warlock

(I have a 80 ulduar pally, 80 naxxed druid and 80 naxxed warrior that I can use for tanking later)

Any advise? I did 2 boxing awhile ago on an older computer with 2 melee, and it sucked... hoping having 5 casters would be much better.

Ive read through some of the writeups, but there is just so many of them :love:

looks good to me. it's almost exactly like mine, altho i'm running a quad core and not a tri core.

i 5-box and get 20/42 fps without much of a problem. cpu load stays around 50% (if i remember correctly)

sounds like ur computer is kick butt already... goes ur motherboard support DDR3 memory? if it does spend a couple hundrred to go to that.. and can u have more than 8g in there?

I don't think it does, I bought everything back in Feb not thinking I'd need DDR3 at this point.

Specs from newegg:
Number of Memory Slots 4×240pin Memory Standard DDR2 1200/1066
Whether 1200 MHz memory speed is supported depends on the CPU being used Maximum Memory Supported 16GB

you will be fine with what you have i think.. :thumbup:

Your machine is fine for boxing as long as you stick with low video settings and all sounds off.