10box, 2 computer thoughts, any suggestions/ideas are most welcome!

Ive allways wante to 10 box now with the new RAF i might actually do it, so ive been thinking abitt on what i need, my main PC right now can handel 5 with almost no lagg(except for Orgrimmar i guess).

My rig i have now:

I7 930, 8 gigs of RAM, 5870 x2 in xfire a small OC on the 930 to 4.2 GHz nothing huge.

if i would want to 10 box i feel i need to add a machine, and maby i could Fraps and all that fun stuff, so i went online and made a "semi" budget computer to run 8 clients or so, so i can have the "main" ones on the main rig so it all looks good and i can fraps and what not, now i would like to ask you 10 boxers or you who have expeiance with 10 boxing to see if this setup can run 8-9 clients on low with 10 FPS limit or so

second rig ideas:

I5 2500k(will OC to atleast 4.something), 16 gigs of "standard" 1600mhz RAM, ATI 6870 1gig cost is about 600 euro

i will probably only run one or maby 2 screens for the alts(im not made of money!)

Any suggestions/ideas are most welcome !

What are you using now?

Computer? the first one i poste "my rig i have now" is the one i use now for 5 boxing

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=44292

Lots of good discussion on machine builds in that thread, you might have read it already though.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by ZooljinX

Ive allways wante to 10 box now with the new RAF i might actually do it, so ive been thinking abitt on what i need, my main PC right now can handel 5 with almost no lagg(except for Orgrimmar i guess).

My rig i have now:

I7 930, 8 gigs of RAM, 5870 x2 in xfire a small OC on the 930 to 4.2 GHz nothing huge.

---

I know Kicksome successfully 10 boxes in heavy PvP situations using an old i7 920 stock with 24GB of RAM and
a GTX 580 1.5GB GPU. I believe all of his clients are at 1900x1200 and he has been FRAPS'ing as well. The
beta version of MSI Afterburner (which is completely free) has a new built-in game capture feature which is
supposed to be better than FRAPS as far as having less of an impact on the system while recording yet
achieving the same, if not better, quality.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by ZooljinX

if i would want to 10 box i feel i need to add a machine, and maby i could Fraps and all that fun stuff, so i went online and made a "semi" budget computer to run 8 clients or so, so i can have the "main" ones on the main rig so it all looks good and i can fraps and what not, now i would like to ask you 10 boxers or you who have expeiance with 10 boxing to see if this setup can run 8-9 clients on low with 10 FPS limit or so

second rig ideas:

I5 2500k(will OC to atleast 4.something), 16 gigs of "standard" 1600mhz RAM, ATI 6870 1gig cost is about 600 euro

i will probably only run one or maby 2 screens for the alts(im not made of money!)

Any suggestions/ideas are most welcome !

---

I have done some hardware testing in the sticky of this forum with the new 1155 SNB CPUs and it shows that
the hyper-threading of the 2600(K) actually comes in handy. While the current tests are only for 10 boxing,
this is true even while 5 boxing and I will have some screenshots to back this up soon enough. I won't
recommend that you upgrade unless you're hellbent on 10-boxing while recording at very decent video settings
and you've attempted to tweak or run some of your tests on your current system to see where your bottleneck
is. I just see it as a waste to build a new generation system that is actually going to be your alt system and it's
not going to do anything except house your alts while you multibox World of Warcraft.

Thanks for the input, as for bottleneck im fairly sure its my 5870 xfire ( as crossfire is pritty much bad for boxing as you are doing window-mode) and only having 8 gigs of ram, i cant say im hellbent on 10boxing, im going to use a friends computer with similar setup(only less ram) and see how it goes and what i can do(yay for free trials), thanks for the input, apriciate it!