Ordered for 10 account computer, hopefully its good enough

[zanthor]

Anything you can do hardware software can do better now

theres no reason to assume that because you have multiple PC's that youre forced to use hardware. i have 5 PC's and i use a combination of hardware and software. each has its strengths and weakness'.

purely from a control point of view, a single PC can only accept one set of key and mouse inputs at a time. i frequently use G15 macros to control my basic tanking and dps macros while i switch to my secondary keyboard and actively play a priest or a CC toon.

A single PC running IS/ISBoxer can utilize multiple input devices and I can in fact accomplish exactly what you are describing without bothering to use a 2nd keyboard.

and, yes, running any form of multimedia intensive application multiple times will create system and software issues, including errors and memory leaks, regardless how great hardware is.

multiple clients on one PC limits your options, not the other way around. i dont see the purpose of spending more money to buy a single machine, when he can spend less money and incorporate an extra machine into his existing setup and achieve a superior effect?

I firmly believe that I can outmatch any hardware configuration for all but the hardest of the hard core boxers (aka: Sam/Prepared). Lax also has a new app he's been working on that I sincerely believe is going to rock the multiboxing world when it hits the streets... he's taken a lot of feedback from his users and I believe anything you could dream of accomplishing will be possible with this new app, and easy as heck to setup.

[Frappuccino]

I prefer soft-boxing because:
1. Usability standpoint outside of WoW - one beefy PC can play other games well, multiple monitors makes browsing /working what ever you might do really easy & fun. I plan to get into currency trading at some point and 3 monitors will really help with that. Huge monitor realestate is a great thing.
2. From the wow standpoint there's really nothing being lost if the PC's fast enough. FTL / keymap usage is far superior to anything traditional hardware boxing can produce. It's all fine and dandy not having to restrict your slave's FPS but if you can't easily switch to them and have the whole team assist them seemlessly, what's the point?


@OP, if you haven't purchased it yet, you might want to consider a dual-CPU mother board. 8 cores (16 virtual with hyperthreading) would be a lovely thing for 10 boxing.

[Smoooth]

1. Usability standpoint outside of WoW - one beefy PC can play other games well, multiple monitors makes browsing /working what ever you might do really easy & fun.

This is a big thing for me. There is no real reason to have 5+ computers other than for boxing. Also I don't really agree that more less powerful computers are cheaper than 1 powerful computer. Cases, lcds, video cards, power supplies all add up real quick when you are buying lots of them.

[Starbuck_Jones]

Intel® Core™ i7-950 (3.06GHz, 8MB L3 Cache)
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium (English) Service Pack 1 64-bit
Copper base Heat Sink with aluminum fins
No Productivity software pre-installed
1Yr Ltd Hardware Warranty, InHome Service after Remote Diagnosis
6GB Tri-Channel DDR3 at 1066MHZ (3x2GB DIMM)
600GB Velociraptor Performance RAID 0 (2 x 300GB SATA-II, 10000 RPM HDDs)
nVidia GeForce GTX 285 1024MB
Single Drive: 16X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) w/double layer write capability
No Monitor
Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
No speakers (Speakers are required to hear audio from your system)
No Keyboard
No Mouse
No Floppy Drive
Aluminum with Clearcoat Chassis
Subtotal $3,119


AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 5000+
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Service Pack 1
No Productivity software pre-installed
1Yr Ltd Hardware Warranty, InHome Service after Remote Diagnosis
19 inch SE198WFP Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor
2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz- 2DIMMs
320GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™
16x DVD+/-RW Drive
ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO 256MB
Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
No speakers (Speakers are required to hear audio from your system)
Dell USB Keyboard and Dell Optical USB Mouse
No Floppy Drive Included
Subtotal $559


This is my opinion, but with the quality of low end premade oem PC's, I would rather go with 2-5 lower end boxes than one high end box. The RAM on the gaming box is a bit light, but they wanted like $2k more to upgrade to 12gigs. Bah on that crap so aftermarket ram ftw and its going to increase the cost a couple hundred more. Also it does not include a display and it came to over $3k. Second box with a 19in widescreen lcd came in at $560. The bottom box with easily run 2 copies of wow and prolly can handle 4 if you pumped up the ram. It doesnt take much to play wow, however if your gameing library includes newer games other than WOW, then the cheap box will disapoint. However for under $1800 you can get 3 of them with nice displays and be up and 5 boxing. Thats about $1200 cheaper than it cost me to setup my systems 3.5 years ago, and this is much better hardware.

The top box you could prolly build your own for cheaper, But I dont think you could do the same with the bottom box. Also you can prolly get another 10-20% off on both if you dig around the tubes for some discount coupons.

[Otlecs]

I guess quite a few people missed the bit where he said he's made the decision to go with a single box and has already started using it then...

[Smoooth]

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Well actually in that post I meant that I tried 10 accounts on my old setup of 2 computers.But you are correct that I have bought all the components to make a single computer.

Somehow the fedex guy ninja'd me and left a failed delivery notice on my door. I was waiting on my memory which is all I need to get the computer up and running. He must've parked down the street and snuck up and taped the notice to my door. I've been home all day long and no one knocked or rang my doorbell. I can go pick it up directly on my way to work tonight but this is another day I'm ending up waiting. I may throw a fit if any of those ram sticks don't work. I payed $10 to test each of them before shipping out but I have a feeling that's just a scam to get more money out of people and they probably don't even test them.

[Starbuck_Jones]

$10 more for it to be tested. Sounds like a surcharge for refurbished memory.

[Smoooth]

It was an optional charge to test it to "lower the chance of receiving DOA memory". It's a good thing if they actually do it. Some memory comes out of the factory bad. I just really didn't want to go through a whole RMA thing. I hate returning things. I'll usually just trash something and buy another rather than go through the trouble of returning it. Companies take my money within minutes of me buying something but it will take them weeks or months to give it back if they sold me something broken.

[Moorea]

purely from a control point of view, a single PC can only accept one set of key and mouse inputs at a time. i frequently use G15 macros to control my basic tanking and dps macros while i switch to my secondary keyboard and actively play a priest or a CC toon.

I hope this doesn't mean what it sounds like - ie that you're having your g15 play your tank for you unattended (even for a few seconds) - that'd be botting = tos violation = deserved ban hammer - hopefully I misinterpret what you meant ?

[Smoooth]

Damnit I'm an idiot. I should've knocked on wood when I was talking about RMAs. I bought ram that is registered which apparently means buffered aka FBDIMM. If anyone wants 16GB new samsung fbdimm ddr2 ram for cheaper than you can buy it send me a message. I'll have to pay a pretty big fee to return it.

I found some of the correct ram and ordered it along with a 64GB SSD. Finding this type of ram is really a hard thing to do. You really have to search for the fine print to make sure you aren't getting a kit or buffered ram. I actually considered getting a Intel server board and processor and using the ram I had but that would go over the budget I'm willing to spend.