General Advices for fellow Boxers

[ShadowKntSDS]

I tested with 6 clients, all running 800x600 except the main. The main was at 1680x1050. None of the clients got above 900MB,
and I didn't seem to have any noticeable slowdown on my main. Granted, I was not actually playing the other 5 accounts, but they were running, rendering, and eating ram. I did not peak out my physical RAM, so there is hope that 6GB is enough.

I'd says there is a fairly good chance your 8GB will work well in most cases.

After actually playing 6 clients, and loading more textures effects etc, I did have a major slow down after short while with 6GB of ram. My ram usage peaked at 5.6GB, but task manager was showing ~20MB free. It was then that the things started to stutter a bit. When I dropped down to 5 clients, it became playable again as I freed up 600-900MB of memory. Given that it's only a bit over $100 for me to go to 12GB, I'll be doing that upgrade soon. I'm pretty sure I was right at the cusp of playability, so 8GB would prob work.

[ShadowKntSDS]

After actually playing 6 clients, and loading more textures effects etc, I did have a major slow down after short while with 6GB of ram. My ram usage peaked at 5.6GB, but task manager was showing ~20MB free. It was then that the things started to stutter a bit. When I dropped down to 5 clients, it became playable again as I freed up 600-900MB of memory. Given that it's only a bit over $100 for me to go to 12GB, I'll be doing that upgrade soon. I'm pretty sure I was right at the cusp of playability, so 8GB would prob work.

I got 12GB, and I can run 6 clients now without hiccups. RAM usage peaked at 6.5GB, but i have ~4GB cached (which speeds accesses up), and ~2GB free. This is with a 8800 GTS, and an i7-960, all clients on the lowest setting.