Specs needed to 3box and 5 box?

[Drizzit]

Don't listen to much of what he said - he proved he knows little about hardware.

Ah ok... there is also a much nicer way that you could have said that.

Yes, there's memory size and speed. Size is *far* more important in most cases when it comes to loading up multiple instances of a game. The major bottleneck on that system for even 3-boxing is the videocard, but that also depends on what resolution monitor you'll be using.

It depends on what operating system is he going to use. If he is going to use anything that is not 64 to would be better to go for speed then size. Only windows 64 can see (edit) memory that is 3.5g or more. Faster speed means faster access. Having more memory then speed is the equivalent of trying to obtain water from a large bucket through a tiny pin-hole!

DDR2-800 is not "slow" for 5-boxing. I 5-box fine on DDR2-675, although it is 4GB. The amount is far more important than the speed when multiboxing a game like WoW. In fact, RAM speed doesn't have at all as much of an improvement in performance as CPU & videocard processing ability - there's a reason many new high-end machines still come with DDR2, and it's not because of a major price difference to DDR3 anymore.

Did i ever say anything about DDR3. No i did not. You know that there are faster memory in the DDR2. I did not say DDR3, nor would i have said you should go DDR3. DRR3 is new and it is not cheap, not only is the memory not cheap the motherboard is not cheap. I would never say get DDR3 unless you have the money that you would like to waste on that.

A 7200rpm drive isn't slow, but 8MB cache will hold it back. Also, you're better off running separate raptors than striping them in RAID0 - one for the OS, the other for WoW installs with symlinks to data folder.

It is not faster to have just 2 separate HD. Raid0 is much faster then 2 separate HD. You tell me that i do not know anything, but here you are saying that 2 HD is faster then Raid0. Maybe you need to look at what you are typing.


There was no need to attack me the way that you are. If i am wrong then you can explain why i am wrong, and if it makes sense then i will admit that i was wrong and i will take away some new knowledge, but attacking me like this. there was no need for it.