Specs for Multiboxing on 1 PC - Feedback requested

[Kaynin]

I wouldn't go anything less then dualcore at the least and quad core for 4-5 characters.

[Steph]

Intel Quadcore Q6700, MSI P45 Ultimate, 8GB, 2x ATI Radeon 4850, Vista Ultimate 64bit.

The Q6700 runs at default 2.67GHz. The P45 chipset has a shortcomming that I was not aware of when I bought the board, it supports only 8x, if both PEG slots are in use, instead of 16x on both like the X48 does. There is a compatibility issue between P45 and ATI 4800, resulting in system freezes as soon as the crossfire bridge and the drivers are installed (I tested each card and slot separately, it's not a defective card or slot). Ultimate is not necessary of course, but 64bit gets rid of the annoying 32bit memory limitation. I saw 6GB memory used as max when fiveboxing so far, so that should really help. I don't use any fancy fast HDDs, two generic 500GB Samsung SATA drives in Raid 0 do the trick for me.

I have two woW installations. This is just me being lazy with settings and addons, keeping a full monty and a barebone installation.

[Fef]

I run five character on an iMac :

- Windows XP Bootcamp partition
- Dual 2.8 GHz processor
- 4 GB RAM (not all usable because of 32 bits windows XP)
- Overclocked Radeon HD2600XT

The alts are ran on tiny 400x300 windows with graphical detail set to low and only 5 frames per seconds (all details available in this thread.

I get close to 30 FPS on the main window most of the time, but it can lag when entering capitals.

All in all not only playable, a very nice gaming experience.

[Aethon]

Never put in less then 4 Gig in your machine, ram prices is dirt cheaps.

Make sure your OS can handle more then 4 gb of ram, first.

[emps]

Intel Quadcore Q6700, MSI P45 Ultimate, 8GB, 2x ATI Radeon 4850, Vista Ultimate 64bit.

The Q6700 runs at default 2.67GHz. The P45 chipset has a shortcomming that I was not aware of when I bought the board, it supports only 8x, if both PEG slots are in use, instead of 16x on both like the X48 does.

What do you get FPS-wise from Shat around the flight master while flying/moving around?

Wow! I didn't know about the 8x/8x limitation on the p45. That sux!

[Coke]

5 Boxing.
Intel Q6600.
Powercolow HD4850.
4 Gigs RAM.
850 watt PSU.

[TheBigBB]

I'm running a dual-quad core 2.8 GHZ Mac Pro with 4GB Ram and NVIDIA 8800 512MB video card.

I can run 5 windows at once with mid settings, but that will lag up in a town, so I keep it all at low settings and it's usually fine. The only time I ever have any jumpiness is when I hit the center of Shatt or around auction houses. I don't have the FPS or screen resolution set any different on any windows, since I really would rather be switch mains on the fly if something bad happens, but I'm sure I would run 100% smooth all the time if I did. This setup is definitely A+ for 5-boxing. It can even hit up to 60FPS on each window at times.

[Sanctume]

Computer 1. Alienware 9750 (laptop) Core2Duo 2.6 Ghz, 2GB DDR2 RAM, 2x SLI 8800GT.

with a single 17" LCD @ 1920 x 1200 res, 4-box using maximizer was still playable with the "main" having a larger resolution.
with 2 monitor 17" LCD + a 20" wide LCD, 5-box was great.

Computer 2. Home built. AMD 64 X2 4400+ Brisbane Dual Core AM2, 2GB DDR2 800 RAM, 1x Asus 7600GT 256MB 128-bit PCI x16.

with a 20: wide LCD @ 1680 x 1020, 4-box was kinda sluggish, and harder to "see" having 4 equal resolution split in 1 monitor.
with a 20: wide LCD @ 1020 x 1680 (portrait), 3-box is workable for a slave-box, with UI scaling, chat window is still readable.

Computer 3. Home built. AMD 64 X2 4400+ Toledo Dual Core socket 939, 2GB DDR 400 RAM, 1x eVAG 7800GT 256MB 256-bit PCI x16.

functions the same as Computer 2.

With those 3 computers, I can 10-box comfortably.

[Hachoo]

A lot of what people say is required to run something is way higher than you actually "need".

I'm 5 boxing on a single PC, my specs are:

Athlon X2 2.2GHz
3GB RAM
GeForce 8600GT graphics card
2 7200RPM SATA II drives

2 copies of wow on the first drive, 3 on the second, 2 copies on CPU 0 (main and 1 clone), 3 copies on CPU 1

Primary account is set to 1024x768 with objects set to far, all other details set low
4 clones are set to 800x600 with objects set to far, all other details set low

This is actually very fast outside, and completely bearable in Org (not high enough to go to Shatt yet but org has just as many people clustered in the bank/mailbox/AH area so I assume it will be pretty similar).

I could definitely see being able to run the main account at 1152x864 or maybe 1280x1024 without issues, just haven't tried it.