how about this computer for 5+ multiboxing?

[Wilbur]

As I already said.

Add a second HDD with low seek time for your WoW install.

Otherwise texture loading will be a huge bottleneck on an otherwise very impressive system.

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Bottleneck is a single HDD.

One for your OS/swap partition

ANOTHER for your WoW Install.

Simple upgrade like that and you'll have a sweet rig.

QFT

Adding a Velociraptor would be the biggest upgrade for this system (for a reasonable price). As it stands, you should have no problems 5 boxing.

You QFT. SSD for hosting /Data is a better upgrade than 2x Velociraptors in RAID 0. I know because I'm in the process of fine tuning an i7 965EE, 12GB ram, 2x Velociraptors in RAID 0, and an SSD. If I had to make the choice between RAID 0 Velociraptors or just a regular 7200rpm and an SSD, I'd take the SSD any day. Access time is 10x better than Velociraptors - and that's more important that pure transfer rates when trying to locate and transfer a thousand tiny files.

[Bovidae]

Context is key. Obviously I was flawed in thinking the OP had a budget :P That's why I suggested adding a raptor, for OS and swapfile, as they require more witting.

If money is not an issue, of course, a good SSD would be nice, especially is it were used primarily for data reads (and not writes)

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Context is key. Obviously I was flawed in thinking the OP had a budget :P That's why I suggested adding a raptor, for OS and swapfile, as they require more witting.

If money is not an issue, of course, a good SSD would be nice, especially is it were used primarily for data reads (and not writes)

Budget? $230 = 300GB Velociraptor. Less than $200 = 1TB 7200rpm Samsung HDD & 30GB OCZ SSD. More space, and SSD for faster WoW /data access for less money.. can't go wrong with that.

[Mercurio]

also why in the world would you use 295 for a multi boxing machine?

mer said he added a 295GTX video card to his computer and for multiboxing its not the best idea, for other games though its great but still most games now will run great with a 260 and 295 is more for future games as of now.

Yep, I'm getting a 295GTX in my new system. It was admittedly a bit of a splurge.

Why? I plan on running both of my 2 30" monitors at 2560x1600 off the one card. Even for "only WoW", that ought to take quite a bit of processing power that I doubt the 260GTX could handle.

[xss]

I have heard mixxed feeling's about 2 hd's increasing performance, some say it does nothing but work as a back hd if main burns out and helps keep organized but thats all.

Dunno if anyone has tested to see if 2 hd's is better than one as far as multiboxing goes? ?(