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I was bored waiting for the extended maintenance to be finished on my server, so I gave 10-boxing a try. Unfortunately I could not create more than 3 trial accounts, so I had to limit my experience to 10 WoW clients launched, but only 8 of them with a character loaded.

I set up a main window, and 9 small thumbnail views along the top and right side of the screen sides (24') . Thumbnails were limited to 10 fps, and main window limited to 40 fps. I ran the 8 characters to Stormwind, and I am happy to report that the FPS on the main window was still at 40. I could not try Dalaran, for obvious reasons. The small tests I did didn't seem to show more lag than when I am 5-boxing (I have a decent ADSL connection). I am confident two more accounts would not be an issue since both memory and processor usage always stayed under 45-50%.

My system is a Mac Pro with dual quad-core Nehalem processor, 12GB ram, a HD4870 video card, and a 60GB OCZ Vertex for Vista 64 and WoW. Playing WoW is the only thing that is done under Vista on this drive/machine, all the rest (obviously work related) is done under MacOS running from other drives.

Now I'm very tempted to create 5 new real accounts, transfer one of my two level 80 groups, and give 10 boxing a real try .... Expensive though.

Please tell me it's not worth it !