Friendly Poll on what you use to Multibox Hardware wise.

Not specific Computers or parts, But I was more interested in the general over view of our community here.

Single PC
Hardware boxing (two or more PC's)
Mac
Linux machine

Etc. etc.

For me , It varies, I mostly do 5 mans on one PC, But If needed I have done hardware boxing across my main and two older 939 systems.

I can even manage two systems if need be using the various software we have out there.

What do you guys and gals use for the days when you just have to log in and kill everything in site?

Stephen

5-Boxing with IS Boxer on a single PC:

i7 920 (stock)
Asus P6T (original)
12GB DDR 1600mhz
GTX 275 1GB.
Patroit SSD, 220mb/sec sequential read.
Vista Home Premium, 64-bit.

On medium settings (maximum view distance on the main), the system is fine everywhere.
I've occasionally noticed a little latency in very crowded areas, but I can Army of the Dead with 30 horde inside Galv's room and run about killing them without issues.
Stormwind, near either AH on a Saturday afternoon is a lot more of a strain on the system.

Single PC:

i7-920 @ 4GHz
12GB Corsair 1600MHz RAM
ATI 6950 2GB
Corsair F115 SSD (Read = 280MB/s, Write = 270MB/s 50,000 IOPS)
Win7 64bit Home Premium
2 x 24" Displays (1920x1200)

5 Boxing with IS Boxer and have all 5 clients on the same settings - High with shadows dropped down to Fair, as they seem to have the biggest impact on my system in Cataclysm.

Runs like a dream :)

I 10 box:

PC:
386sx 25
64 meg ram
integrated graphics
pc sound
dial up 28.8k modem (hate it when wife calls someone)











seriously?
currently 2-box
1 screen
Core2duo
8 meg ram
256meg ram nvidia card
was able to run 5 during WOTLK on this all at low graphics but was a bit of a pain. I had 5 miniature windows and a medium size with desktop visible
They ran much smoother on keyclone than Innerspace

Again, I am also 5-Boxing with ISBoxer on a single PC.

i7-2600k (4.4ghz on AIR - 65c at 99% load)
Asus P8P67 Intel P67
Corsair Vengeance 12GB (3x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Triple Channel Kit
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850 Extreme 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
2x 1.5TB drives (soon to be 1x1.5TB and 1x1.5TB RAID0) (One for Windows and other applications, one exclusively for WoW/Premier/Photoshop etc)
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit

Good settings on the alts, high settings on the main. Limited myself to 60 fps in ISboxer and rarely fall below 50 fps.

5-Boxing, IS Boxer, single PC:

i7 920 (3.6 GHz aircooled)
12GB DDR 1200mhz
GTX 580 (stock)
WoW on SSD (but it really does not make that much of a difference compared to HDD once the first client is up and cached)
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

EDIT: two 24" 16:10 screens

Quad-boxing on a laptop! Woo!

Core i7 740QM (1.73~2.93GHz)
8GB DDR3-1333 (PC3 10666)
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730
Intel 120GB 2nd Gen SSD
Windows 7 - 64bit

Also for displays, I use the built in laptop display along with:
24" Widescreen LCD
19" LCD

Or I'll just close the laptop display and split the 19" into 4 and use the 24" for the active client.

Two Windows 7 boxes.

Main = 1 client, i760, gobs of RAM, GTX460, etc.
Alts = 4 clients, Q6600, 4GB, 7200 SATA HDD, 8800GT, nothing special.

5 boxing on one PC

Windows 7
Core2Quad 9550 OC'd to 3.0 GHz
8GB RAM
ATI 4890
Logitech G110 keyboard
Logitech G700 mouse
Dell 24" 1920x1200
Acer 21.5" 1920x1080

Currently 5 boxing RIFT with main at custom low render settings capped at 25 FPS in ISB and slaves at low render capped at 15 FPS

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Originally Posted by Yahtzee

Quad-boxing on a laptop! Woo!

Core i7 740QM (1.73~2.93GHz)
8GB DDR3-1333 (PC3 10666)
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730
Intel 120GB 2nd Gen SSD
Windows 7 - 64bit

Also for displays, I use the built in laptop display along with:
24" Widescreen LCD
19" LCD

Or I'll just close the laptop display and split the 19" into 4 and use the 24" for the active client.

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Nice. i didnt think laptops could do it! What settings do you run them on?

5 computers, 3 PCs 2 Macs. I would love a key broadcaster that works cross-platform, but no one has stepped up to the plate. So I use HotKeyNet and VNC to talk to the Macs.

If there was a cross-platform key broadcaster (don't need windows resizing, don't need window swaping, don't need anything but keys passed and round-robin-ness), I would use 4 Macs and 1 PC. I still need a PC for games that don't get ported to the Mac and so I can update at my own speed (SSD, video card, processor, etc) so my main computer is pretty fancy without bying a new computer all together.

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Originally Posted by Lyonheart

Nice. i didnt think laptops could do it! What settings do you run them on?

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I sometimes 5 box on my Sony Vaio, everything on low, specs are:

Dual Core processor, 4gb RAM, 512mb graphics.

Bit painful in built up areas, but can still quest and dungeon/bg! :D

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Originally Posted by Lyonheart

Nice. i didnt think laptops could do it! What settings do you run them on?

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Same way I'd play even if I wasn't boxing! Everything on low, draw distance at max, with only particle density and projected textures on. Cranking the graphics up gives me a headache, can't stand it.

Runs really well too, rarely any slowdowns, if it all. I can even run Fraps flawlessly while boxing. :) Computers are getting pretty ridiculous now-a-days, amazing what they can cram in a laptop enclosure.

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Originally Posted by ElectronDF

5 computers, 3 PCs 2 Macs. I would love a key broadcaster that works cross-platform, but no one has stepped up to the plate. So I use HotKeyNet and VNC to talk to the Macs.

If there was a cross-platform key broadcaster (don't need windows resizing, don't need window swaping, don't need anything but keys passed and round-robin-ness), I would use 4 Macs and 1 PC. I still need a PC for games that don't get ported to the Mac and so I can update at my own speed (SSD, video card, processor, etc) so my main computer is pretty fancy without bying a new computer all together.

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I use Synergy, works across my 3 Windows 7 machines, 2 mac OSX machines. There are some oddities with Synergy though when playing wow (crazy cursor, spinning movement) but for non-gaming it works great.

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Originally Posted by ElectronDF

5 computers, 3 PCs 2 Macs. I would love a key broadcaster that works cross-platform, but no one has stepped up to the plate. So I use HotKeyNet and VNC to talk to the Macs.

If there was a cross-platform key broadcaster (don't need windows resizing, don't need window swaping, don't need anything but keys passed and round-robin-ness), I would use 4 Macs and 1 PC. I still need a PC for games that don't get ported to the Mac and so I can update at my own speed (SSD, video card, processor, etc) so my main computer is pretty fancy without bying a new computer all together.

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Sounds similar to my setup.

I use:

1 Mac Pro (8 core)
1 27" i7 Imac
3 Windoze boxes

I broadcast keys with a hardware key broadcaster. Mac OSX is unusual in that the USB keystrokes using my broadcaster don't always succesfully get to the iMac unless the iMac has the "focus". I.e. I have a KVM switch from ATEN that has a broadcast capability, but I believe that the keystrokes are broadcast first to the computer that is assigned as the "primary" computer and then routed to the other attached computers. If the iMac is NOT the focus, then it misses about 1/3 of the keystrokes. When I run the iMac in Windows (Bootcamp), I don't experience this issue.

I am interested in trying the broadcasters from Vetra, but I have a hard time plunking down the money for a hobby that I keep thinking I am going to quit soon!

Single PC:

(5) clients - One on Ultra, and rest on med or low.

i3-560 3.3GHz
10GB DDR3 1600
Nvidia GForce 240 GT
SSD
800W PWS
Intel board 1656 Mhtz
Win7 64bit Home Premium
23" Asus Display

Love to upgrade the video to the the GForce 460 overclocked.
Mmmm this looks so good

I'm still rockin AMD but my next system will like be Intel.


I 5-box on this
AMD Phenom x4 3.2Ghz
890fx motherboard
12GB DDR3
Windows 7 Ultimate
128GB OCZ SSD for OS and Games
2x 500GB hdd for mass storage
nVidia 560ti for main monitor 24"
nVidia 460 for second monitor 22"
Intel CT nic (I turned off the onboard nic and use the intel for the cpu offload)
Creative Xi-fi sound card
Antec 300 case


File server/Media system
AMD quad proc 2.9
8GB DDR3
Windows Home Server 2011
4 hard drives in a raid 5 for about 2.5TB total
Nvidia 250
Creative Xi-fi sound
Antec 300 case


I have a second system I use as a file server and to watch video on the 22" monitor I don't box on it but I do watch dvds/netflix when I box without slowing my game machine down. I have the second video card on the game system rendering the slaves but I don't even look at them as I have the second system on that monitor playing movies. I then have two kvms hooked up to the two monitors/keyboards/mice so besides these two systems I can have my work laptop hooked up and a spot to hook up whatever computer I'm working on for somebody without having to disconnect anything.