A little introduction : I work for a company called Doghousesystems.com and i have had a few customers who want a "cream of the crop" multiboxing system. As usual we started doing some testing with regards to what hardware do we need to setup a performance curve in relation to multiboxing customers.

Here is what i have come up with thus far:
For all practical reasons i am guessing that most multiboxers run on 2 monitors
Monitor 1 : is on 1280x1024 with all settings on "high" and is only running your main account
Monitor 2 : is running 4 clients of 800x600 with all settings on "low"

Edit: All clones are set to max fps 15 and the main account is set to uncapped. So our numbers should turn out like this:
GTX295 on i7 965 : 80/15/15/15/15
GTX 280 on i7 965: 75/15/15/15/15
ect...

Affinity is set to default ( for stability and there are so many different methods i figure to keep the playing field simple and untainted id leave it alone. )

I took all 5 accounts to nexus ( farthest western flight point ) and flew all 5 accounts ( using /timetest ) to howling fjor ( farthest flight point to the east of northrend )
"why northrend?" Because it seems to be the most taxing zones on your system.

the /timetest removes all variables and keeps your camera angle still so that you can get a repeatable framerate for the sake of benchmarking.

I have done this test now with multiple builds including all varations of:
i7 920 940 965
gtx 260
gtx 280
gtx 295
gtx 285 ( pre production)

ati radeon 4850
ati radeon 4870
ati radeon 4870x2 ( no, there were no changes thus i stuck with single card configs )


I am still in the middle of testing all this but this is only phase 1. Phase 2 will be adding different variations of hard drives including:
INTEL 32G SSD
OCZ SSD
WD Raptor
WD Vraptor
WD 7200 RPM drive ( black series )

ect.

along with the different storage settings i will try to change some display settings to see how we can optimize each frame and push out as much as we can out of our systems. Or future systems for that matter. I also plan on creating a solution for those multiboxers who are looking at purchasing a system in the future that want to multibox on a single PC. Yes i did this in the past but this will be far superior as i now have acess to far more resources.

My main reason for this post was to get your input on my "multiboxing benchmark", are you satisfied with my method? What are your suggestions?

Thanks gents/ladies ! Happy Boxing.

Preliminary scores: