Building a 5 Box CPU Question

[Sam DeathWalker]

Well there is some disagreement on how much of video ram wow uses to store textures, and as you correctly point out once you get them there you should be fine, but then a new character comes into view ... back to the hard disk ...

Ya it dosnt constantly stream textures to the card for sure. But you hit a area with a lot of people with unloaded textures and ... also it loads textures "on demand" cause if it loaded eveyrone near you, even those not visible, well thats even worse.

Thats why I think that a system with 32G ram is better then all this, as you can then put the whole wow folder into ram.

As pointed out does this board support crossfire or sil? I dont see a word about that in any review or add or anything. Just what 4 video cards does tyan expect on this board? Are you able to assign spicifc gpu's to spicific instances of wow? Does the bios support all this? .... Lots of problems.

[Sajuuk]

As pointed out does this board support crossfire or sil? I dont see a word about that in any review or add or anything. Just what 4 video cards does tyan expect on this board? Are you able to assign spicifc gpu's to spicific instances of wow? Does the bios support all this? .... Lots of problems.

Does it really matter if it supports sli/crossfire? As stated, the OP wants to use six lcds, which means he's not using sli/crossfire. Why don't we just advise the OP, and then see how he fares instead of staying how we don't think it'll work correctly.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Good point, crossfire/sli not needed for 6 seperate monitors.

[TeK23]

If you are going to spend some cash on a new box why not go big!!!

http://www.nvidia.com/object/persona...computing.html

The new Telsa Tera-flop computers that runs over 250x faster then your standard PC :P Nothing like 960 Cores

[nakago]

I am currently using a Early 2008 Mac Pro
8 x 3.0 Ghz Xeon cores
16 GB Ram
8800 GT 512mb

I am running under Vista 64 Ultimate ( Aero turned off!!! )
You really need to run Vista 64 or Windows 7 64, mostly so you can get full use of your memory and cores.

I use InnerSpace, and run 5 instance of WoW with affinity split among the various WoW's

Works great, but I am going to be buying the EVGA GTX285 1GB Mac Edition this week. Friend of mine just got his, and was a big upgrade over the 8800GT 512mb, so I am looking forward to it.

In generally I am using between 8 to 12GB of ram, I like having extra, so 16GB was the easy choice ( I also do high end 3D work under OS X, so the memory was more for that purpose )

[Enndo]

I can five box on that rig very easily. 30+ frames in Dalaran, 80+ on main screen out and about with the drone screens limited to 30fps.

i'd love to know how you get 30fps in dalaran ... I 5box on a core i7 with 12gb fast RAM, 30GB SSD (only for wow - os on another drive), Asus 4850 512mb video card and I get 7-10 fps in dalaran.

I'm not sure what your settings are but my i7 stock clocking, gtx 285, and 12 gigs of corsair 1600 i get 30fps in dalaran on my main and slaves are capped at 15. The build the OP has designed is very nice but not needed. I think I got all my parts for my i7 for about 2k all said and done and it is awsome.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Although its not certain it does appear that the more video ram you have on your card the better.

[gitcho]

I can five box on that rig very easily. 30+ frames in Dalaran, 80+ on main screen out and about with the drone screens limited to 30fps.

i'd love to know how you get 30fps in dalaran ... I 5box on a core i7 with 12gb fast RAM, 30GB SSD (only for wow - os on another drive), Asus 4850 512mb video card and I get 7-10 fps in dalaran.

I'm not sure what your settings are but my i7 stock clocking, gtx 285, and 12 gigs of corsair 1600 i get 30fps in dalaran on my main and slaves are capped at 15. The build the OP has designed is very nice but not needed. I think I got all my parts for my i7 for about 2k all said and done and it is awsome.

For those that are getting 30fps in dal, are you getting it right away after a hearth? does it stay that way? I'm not getting close to this, and not sure why ...

[Sam DeathWalker]

Everyone needs to say what resolution they are running at. If they are getting 30fps at 800X600 and you getting 15fps at 1920 X 1200 well .....

[keyclone]

you could reduce the number of monitors if you'd like.

you can use 2 video cards... but you would not want your wows to run on more then one card. therefore, run your wows on 2 monitors (or what your card supports) from the same card. run your main on one monitor and a 2x2 on the other.

if you have other video boards, i'd put the web browser, vent, IM, etc on the monitors attached to them.

i run 3 monitors. 24" for my main, 22" for my 2x2 alts, and the other for my non-wow stuff (running 2x 260s now).. all monitors running 1680x1050 and getting 25/42 normally.