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I got a pentium4 with XP, 2 gigs running 4 accounts. What important is what else yeh got running?
Yeh can have the fastest box money can buy and it still wont run 5 accounts if yeh got a bunch of junk running in the background.
Once yeh have yer box I would suggest doing a lil research on optimizing the operating system for speed.
I would suggest getting 4 gigs of ram if yer getting XP and 8 gigs if yer gonna go with vista.
You could probaly run 3-4 instance of wow per core.
8800 GT -> 5 clients
Core 2 Duo 2.66 ghz -> 4 clients
10,000 RPM HD -> 3 clients perhaps, depends on the HDD. A regular HDD(7200rpm) can run 2 clients.
2 Gigs DDR2 -> 2 or 3 clients. depending on how much other software you run in the background
So, overall I'm guessing that you can run 2 or 3 clients smoothly.
I run my 5 box team on the following
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 / 2.4 GHz
2gb ram
7950GT card
1024x768 with 30 fps for main on screen 1
the four on follow split a 19" 1280x1024 screen and is set to lowest in all and 15 fps
Keyclone and Maximizer is a must for me
I dont have much of problems. Either in instances or grinding quests. Only thing is when I travel by bird. The swift graphics change means heavy loading on the 5 accounts. My solution is quite simple. Send the 5 man team off to their destination and go afk a few minutes. By the time I am back all 5 have loaded proper and I am off my merry way. ^^
I know some would /cry over 30fps/15fps but since I am only into PvE is good for me. No need for more atm.