Getting more serious. Thoughts?

[Keff]

Heya all! <new face here>

In the past I've tried both dual- and tri-boxing running on a single computer. Now, I want to get more serious about my boxing and run 4-5 characters at once. In the upcoming days I'll be buying a new computer since my own is an extreme laptop gamer with two years of too much gaming on its record, and it's getting slower and slower. My question is...

Should I get one hell of a machine and 4-5 box on the one single rig, or should I get a more than decent one and try getting a few extra for my toons?

Specs of the computer I'd buy if....

Intel Core™ i7 Quad Processor i7-950 1366, 3.066GHz, QuickPath 4.8GTs, 4x 256KB, Boxed
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333MHz 12GB CL9 Kit w/6x 2GB XMS3 modules, CL9-9-9-24, for Core i7
Corsair Powersupply 750W Black, ATX Bulk 140mm Fan, 8xSATA, SLI
XFX GeForce GTX 295 576M 1792MB PhysX PCI-Express 2.0, 2xDVI, HDCP, HDMI, Core 240x2, 55nm, Single PCB version
Seagate Barracuda® 7200.12 1TB SATA 3.0Gb/s, 32MB, 7200RPM
ASUS P6T Deluxe V2, X58, Socket-1366 DDR3, ATX, SLI&CrossFireX, Firewire, 2xGbLAN, 3xPCI-Ex(2.0)x16
ASUS Xonar D2X/XDT, 7.1 channel SPDIF, EAX2.0, DTS, DVS, DDL, PCI-Express 1x

Any advice would be really appreciated!

[Vecter]

That is a beast of a computer!. You should not have any issues 4/5 boxing with it.

Will your experience be better with multiple computers? All depends on settings, where you are and what you are doing. Although with a high end machine such as that I can't imagine really any area giving you issues.

I did not see any monitor listed, but 22" or larger would be best if you use a single one with 4/5 box.

[Keff]

Yeah that's pretty much how high end it'll go if you don't want to put another $800 or so for another identical monster graphics card.

I'm already in posession of a 21.5" and a 20" LCD monitor, and with the hypotetical purchase of the monster listed above, with it comes another 21.5" so monitors wont be a problem, I'd think!

[Ogloo]

Well my computer is a step down from that like i7 920, 12 gigs of
memory, gtx nvidia 285.. Ect... It runs 60 fps with the settings up and all that jazz... It's beast like smooth in wg and, and in huge wg battles it stays 30-45 fps and those huge battles don't happen much and 45 is still good ( also have fraps goin, vent, Internet all that

[Smoooth]

You could probably run 10 on that. I run 10 no problems but with a x2 vid card and 16gb ram.

[Barelan]

Maybe think about an extra disk for raid0, or an extra 2 for raid5, wouldn't up the price much, and would give you a boost in performance when moving zone to zone etc.

[zanthor]

Maybe think about an extra disk for raid0, or an extra 2 for raid5, wouldn't up the price much, and would give you a boost in performance when moving zone to zone etc.

A barely noticeable difference... shaving a few seconds off each time you zone (but you don't zone that much in WoW.)

The machines a beast, will run 5 just fine even on a high pop server in crowded prime time Dalaran.

[Iceorbz]

Id stick to one computer, much less stuff to deal with... that will run like they said 5+ *NO PROBLEM*

[Keff]

Thanks a lot for the response! Another question popped into my mind, which OS would be best to run? Figured I'd need a 64-bit OS to handle the great amount of RAM. Vista 64?

[alcattle]

Starting out new, go Windows 7