[WoW] FYI, hardware setup for 5 boxing on same computer.

[jdraughn]

I just bought a Q6600 Intel processor (4 processors, each running at 2.4GHZ). With 2 GB of ram I could run 4 instances of the game at the same time, butter smooth (1 instance on top, the other 3 buried, IE: 1 monitor). Starting up a 5th instance of the game however slowed everything down quite a bit. With my G15 keyboard I could monitor my memory and CPU consumption and my processors were running between 20% and 70% each while my memory always stayed around 98% or 99% (that was vista swapping out to the hard drive as the ram filled up). I just ordered another gig of ram though so I should be good to go now with 5 instances of the game all running simutaneously.

That was with 32bit Vista Ultimate and an 8800GTS 320 Video card.

I am thinking of how nice it would be to get a second monitor and have a second video card push the other 4 instances of the game on that monitor so I can see each of their screens at any given time. not sure if you could assign the other 4 instances of the game to render on the second monitor. As far as I know you have 1 primary video renderer and all instances of directx use that. Maybe the cards in SLI would do it but as far as I know WoW and SLI do NOT mix well

I am running a 37" LCD running at 1920x1080 resolution.

[pSon]

FYI

http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums2/viewtopic.php?t=1331

[Wilbur]

Going upto 3 Gigs should improve what you describe as the problem, Upgrading to a 64 Bit OS will allow you to add even more RAM. Adding a second graphics card non SLI'ed and running the secondary monitor from that should allow some extra GPU performance as well as being able to see all the other instances of WoW.

[jdraughn]

I am looking forward to a second video card and monitor in non sli so I can keep tabs on my other 4 wow windows at any given time.