New computer for 20 box - need help

[CMKCot]

the old turbo boost uses a driver to control affinity (the one you mention) and the new one that doesn't (im assuming its now done by the os). implementation depends on the motherboard, and i can only speak for Gigabyte, but after a few weeks of use windows removed the Turbo boost program on its own and wont let you install it again. (typical microsoft)

i simply Couldn't assign affinity to processes anymore. this is not bad for regular users, you definitely want those boosted cores to run your game, not such a good id ea when you have multiple copies of the same software running in parallel.

i found a way of using "Legacy" mode with Turbo boost 3.0 (on the BIOS, and after upgrading it.) that makes the skylake processor work like a Broadwell,only then will windows allow me to install the Turbo boost drivers and disable the function. at least now windows wont mess with my affinity anymore. still, given that windows made this change unannounced and given that you don't get to choose what your OS will do anymore there's no telling what they will do next.

i don't recommend the Skylake series of processors if your main use case is multiboxing. in my case i use it for work and its a beast. so im still happy.

as far as IO, on the new hardware (x299) i have seen a noticeable increase in performance now that im running from two SSDs instead of the old setup with the same two SSDs on raid 0. almost no stutter in Dalaran and loading the ship i don't even have alts get bugged and fall through the floor anymore. lol

[MiRai]

stick with 32 Gigs of Ram... is 64 really necessary?

If you can keep your game clients below 1.5GB of RAM, then no. If you cannot guarantee that, then 32GB probably won't be enough.

I think it's DDR3 though.. will that work?

Nope. Time to pay the exorbitant prices for DDR4.

Don't understand all the tech babble above me. Can someone tell me what to or not to do? LOL

There are three builds listed on the first page of this thread, and two of them are my recommendations. However, if you were 20-boxing on a 3770K, then I would imagine you'd be able to 20-box on a Ryzen 7 1700 seeing as it should, in theory, be twice as good.


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the old turbo boost uses a driver to control affinity (the one you mention) and the new one that doesn't (im assuming its now done by the os). implementation depends on the motherboard, and i can only speak for Gigabyte, but after a few weeks of use windows removed the Turbo boost program on its own and wont let you install it again. (typical microsoft)

This sounds very odd. The software I linked to was last updated 6 weeks ago and it states that the 7000-series Skylake-X processors are supported. You're saying this is not the case?

i simply Couldn't assign affinity to processes anymore. this is not bad for regular users, you definitely want those boosted cores to run your game, not such a good id ea when you have multiple copies of the same software running in parallel.

Do you have a link to this issue? Unless my basic search terms are wrong, Google doesn't show a single result where someone using Skylake-X cannot set their CPU affinity. As people continue to upgrade and adopt Skylake-X, it will be useful to let people know more about it.

as far as IO, on the new hardware (x299) i have seen a noticeable increase in performance now that im running from two SSDs instead of the old setup with the same two SSDs on raid 0. almost no stutter in Dalaran and loading the ship i don't even have alts get bugged and fall through the floor anymore. lol

In Legion, the only thing I have to compare it to is my own experience. I moved from a Samsung 850 Pro SSD, with the typical speeds seen in every single review, to a PCIe m.2 RAID 0 setup which is ~10x faster, and as far as I can tell, there isn't much of a difference—I had no stuttering issues before making the move, and I have no stuttering issues now.

Again, if you're running more characters, then I can't directly compare, but I am playing five characters at a ~4K resolution with my settings turned up, so I am producing a good amount of load on all of my hardware, which could be comparable to someone running more characters and lesser settings.