Budget PC build for 20 man multibox.

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It's highly unlikely that jamming twenty 64-bit game clients onto six CPU cores is going to be an enjoyable experience, especially when the base clock of the 8400 is only 2.8GHz. Unfortunately, "20-man multiboxing" and "budget" don't normally fall into the same sentence.

However, if you're using multiboxing software that is capable of running from two different machines, then you could always try and split the load between them.

Is base clock on CPU that important even if it goes to 4Ghz in turbo boost mode?
I tried to overclock my 3570k@3.6Ghz(x36 multi) to 4Ghz(x40 multi) no impact on client cpu usage(still 20-25% on main window)
But i got great result by lowering FPS lock from 30 to 15 on my slave clients. CPU load went from ~13% to ~7% for each minion window.
Is 8400 worser than 7700k for multiboxing?

[WOWBOX40]

If people could 20 box with such a crappy system, everyone and their mum would be 60 boxing atleast right now. It just aint happening. Expect minimum a pc worth 2 ish k dollars to 5box smoothly with low settings, thats including a monitor or two. Then add more pcs as needed.

A pc worth 3k dollars will play 10 games, but not smooth all of the time.. best to buy pcs for max 5 games on each, for a smooth experience. For safety you should calculate 4 gig RAM per game.

[Speed]

Expect minimum a pc worth 2 ish k dollars to 5box smoothly with low settings, thats including a monitor or two. Then add more pcs as needed.

A pc worth 3k dollars will play 10 games, but not smooth all of the time.. best to buy pcs for max 5 games on each, for a smooth experience. For safety you should calculate 4 gig RAM per game.

Umm.... WoW isnt that demanding.
1.7k$ PC is more than enough for 20 man.

[Toned]

If people could 20 box with such a crappy system, everyone and their mum would be 60 boxing atleast right now. It just aint happening. Expect minimum a pc worth 2 ish k dollars to 5box smoothly with low settings, thats including a monitor or two. Then add more pcs as needed.

A pc worth 3k dollars will play 10 games, but not smooth all of the time.. best to buy pcs for max 5 games on each, for a smooth experience. For safety you should calculate 4 gig RAM per game.

Agree'd I have 3 systems that can handle 10boxing, and one of them only runs 32GB of ram and it's a pretty big difference between the 64gb machines.
I'm using 1080ti in the 32gb machine and the others are 64gb with 1070ti and they 10box.

WOD graphics engine update made multi-boxing pretty taxing on your system. Pre-WOD I could 5 box off my laptop with zero issues.

[MiRai]

Is base clock on CPU that important even if it goes to 4Ghz in turbo boost mode?

"Boost" is nothing more than marketing BS because it normally only affects one or two cores, and if you're cooling on air, then it's going to be for a limited time (unless you adjust settings in the BIOS and are willing to run at a higher temperature).

EDIT1: There's a reason why there's a 1.2GHz gap between the base clock and the turbo clock. If the turbo clock was easily sustained then the gap wouldn't be so large (it's almost 50% of the base clock of the CPU). Also, 2.8GHz isn't the base clock for "power saving," because that's what C-States are for.

EDIT2: GamersNexus has an article on this that shows the boost tables for CoffeeLake CPUs, including the 8400 (their table is wrong, it's 4GHz and he states that in the associated video), and here's a thread over on Tom's Hardware where TechyInAZ explains it. In so many words, the maximum boost clock is only achieved when you're using one core, and then it drops down from there based on the amount of cores that are being used, which is then based upon thermals.

Is 8400 worser than 7700k for multiboxing?

Slightly, yes.

[Speed]

EDIT1: There's a reason why there's a 1.2GHz gap between the base clock and the turbo clock. If the turbo clock was easily sustained then the gap wouldn't be so large (it's almost 50% of the base clock of the CPU). Also, 2.8GHz isn't the base clock for "power saving," because that's what C-States are for.

EDIT2: GamersNexus has an article on this that shows the boost tables for CoffeeLake CPUs, including the 8400, and here's a thread over on Tom's Hardware where TechyInAZ explains it. In so many words, the maximum boost clock is only achieved when you're using one core, and then it drops down from there based on the amount of cores that are being used, which is then based upon thermals.

Got it. Thnx for info!
hmm according to GamerNexus 8400 will keep constant 3.8Ghz on 6 cores if CPU usage over 50%. Pretty good. Probably ll be able to handle 15 man with lowest graphics and background fps locked to 12.