10 boxing on 1 computer. worth it?

[Smoooth]

Not to give you hope or anything but I just started 10 boxing on 1 computer and am loving it. I haven't raided yet as my #6-10 accounts still need a few levels for 80. I have no problems running around Dalaran or WG at peak times.

I have all kinds of 10 man pvp teams just waiting on 3.2 so I can figure out how the BG xp is going to work. So far I dont think there has been enough people in the less than 80 level ques on the PTR to get a game going to test it.

Sure a 10 man group in WSG may not be easy to win but it will definately be fun. I think I'm going to go try 10x resto druid and run around spamming wild growth and 10x moonfiring people. It's just about having fun for me. Maybe I'll fraps some stuff and hook you lol.

[Fef]

Maybe I'll fraps some stuff and hook you lol.

Please do, I'd love to see that

[Multibocks]

Not to give you hope or anything but I just started 10 boxing on 1 computer and am loving it. I haven't raided yet as my #6-10 accounts still need a few levels for 80. I have no problems running around Dalaran or WG at peak times.

I have all kinds of 10 man pvp teams just waiting on 3.2 so I can figure out how the BG xp is going to work. So far I dont think there has been enough people in the less than 80 level ques on the PTR to get a game going to test it.

Sure a 10 man group in WSG may not be easy to win but it will definately be fun. I think I'm going to go try 10x resto druid and run around spamming wild growth and 10x moonfiring people. It's just about having fun for me. Maybe I'll fraps some stuff and hook you lol.

Do you use IS?

[Smoooth]

I use keyclone and hotkeynet. I'm waiting on HKN 2 to get a little further along before moving to that.

My current plan is to continue to level some locks to meet up with my lvl 70 druids. I think I will 6x afflic locks and 4x resto druids. I may add or subtract some druids depending on how much healing I end up needing. I kind of wish I could un-level my druids to get in the 60's bracket so I could play with em now.

I also have a theory of 10x disc/holy priests team with killing with swp, mind blast, and holy nova and living with massive circle of healing spam. I'm just waiting on 3.2 to level this team in BG's if it ends up working.

Yesterday I killed 2 80s flying by in HFP with my 9xlocks. Pretty hilarious, even with like 50% resists they get dotted up quick. I also insta gibbed a 65 hunter with death coils. I'm going to start running fraps in the background so when something might happen I can catch it.

[Tonuss]

Well, for any PC system builders, both AMD and Intel will have six-core processors in 2010. Intel's is planned to be socket-compatible with socket 1366 (the current Core i7 socket) and should be a drop-in replacement for most motherboards once the BIOS is updated. Not sure about AMD's chip, but they usually come in at a better price point than Intel. The Intel CPU will have Hyper-Threading, which means 12 logical cores. While HT is not the same as a real core, and while the previous version (in the Pentium 4) was badly implemented, HT on Core i7 gives about a 30% boost depending on the application(s).

For 10-boxing on a PC it might be the ideal way to go. Still not as good as dual-quad-core IMO, but probably less expensive by far.

[Crybabycry]

Here is my 10boxin setup on 1 pc:
http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=20681

[Pwnzor]

Yay! I found ma old pw! <3

[HPAVC]

Ten worked for me on 4 cores just fine, and on 8 cores now as i get ready to get a full 80 group together it seems fine, I would look into a killer nic before ssd (and likely avoid it), using an actualy directx soundcard, and defiantly windows7.

I don't have problems in major cities, only one character has the actual sound device and the 9 don't have any sound. I find removing the minimap from the slaves helpful.

Fwiw, i do have problems with people spamming all the slaves with tells and the them spamming the main character or party chat and blizzard logging me out. It seems very very easy to hit that limit with 10 guys. This might be a increased by wim, prat and or icon chat. Kudos for the haters figuring that out.

[jak3676]

I do have to wonder why the focus on putting it on on 1 box? I can appreciate the techno-phile interest in seeing if it can be done and just how much performance you can squeeze out of a PC.

But from a cost perspective, I'd think it's cheaper to just buy a 2nd box. (e.g. 2x 500watt PSU's are cheaper than 1x 1000watt PSU, 2x 12GB or RAM is cheaper than 1x 24GB of RAM (are there any mobo's that support 24GB of RAM?), 2x GTX 275's are cheaper than 1x GTX 295....)

If you're willing to dedicate ~$150 a month to WoW, maybe price isn't the focus. But I'd think that performance would be better on 2 boxes vs. 1 as well.

I just went through this same sort of cost/benifit comparison when I was setting myself up for 5x boxing. When I looked at the prices of buying a new i7 system vs buying an older Q6600 and off loading 1 or 2 instances to an even older Core 2 Duo system the 2 older sytems were cheaper and offered better performance.

[Thulos]

I do have to wonder why the focus on putting it on on 1 box? I can appreciate the techno-phile interest in seeing if it can be done and just how much performance you can squeeze out of a PC.

I dislike using multiple computers simply because I lose the ability to use picture in picture on all my clients. The only reason I do sacrifice this ability is to combat the dalaran lag of having 5 clients on one computer. As soon as I upgrade to an i7 i'm going back to one computer for this reason alone.