Need Advice,new "dream" PC,no limits

[benk]

so,i am tired of "upgrading" my old System and wanna buy a brand new PC. I wanna play on 2 Monitors with 5 Clients..( main + 4 toons on other monitor )..What you think is needed to play without any problems ..settings on ultra etc..

1) SLI 285 GTX or 295 GTX? Or 2 GTX without SLI?
2) maybe a Raid 0 with 2 SSD ? maybe on a hardware controller?
3) 12 or 24 GB RAM?


i am not a "pro" oh these thinks and hope you can help me..whats you dream PC ..wothout money limits?

[rahven32]

Well if your just playing wow 24gb is way over kill. Also wow doesn't use sli so thats out. By not putting a budget on it you can get some way out there builds. I can easily build a 10k system. I'm sure thats not what your looking for though. What are you going to play? If it's just for wow honestly if money isn't a issue just build 5 systems for the price of one super system.

Would have to get monitors for them but if you have the space it would be worth it I think.

[DrChaos]

You can seriously build a comp or get a bare bones system and buy an operating system for it for around 1500.00 to do what you want easily. My comp was around 1000.00 and i box 5 wows, vent, have firefox (on second monitor) and winamp normaly playing. I have 8g, NO lag in dalaran.

im going to upgrade to 4 ssd drives soon to replace my 4 - 500gig drives and get xp 64 bit. 64 bit seems to be the best upgrade.

[BobGnarly]

1) Wow doesn't use SLI "well", so you're unlikely to notice much benefit. Still, if money is no limit, sure, SLI 2 GTX295s for other games that do.
2) If you really want RAID0, then get a *good* hardware raid controller. The software raid controllers that come on commodity motherboards do not, in my experience, provide enough of a performance increase (if any) to be worth the hassle and risk. A good RAID controller with RAID0 can be significant. I've never personally tried it on SSD, but I've heard some good things.
3) 12G is plenty for WoW, but again, if there is not limit on money, why not?

Biggest things imo:

• highest performance processor you can get. Right now this is OCd I7. Get the 975 (EE) edition. I would normally never recommend this because it's a giant rip-off, but you said money is no object and the unlocked multiplier can help with extreme OCing.
• Enough RAM so you're not swapping. I have 12G and never come close.
• Good video card, which is more than covered by your suggestions.
• Following all the information on this site wrt how to setup your directories, hard-links, slave clients, etc. I can't stress this enough, it made the single biggest difference in the usability of my system. I'm not going to list everything off, it's all in the stickies if you read them.

Good luck.

[benk]

ok..10.000 $ is to much^^..i thought about 3000 $ around.

[BobGnarly]

Say what you mean, man.

OK, in that case, drop the hardware raid controller and the 975. Maybe the SLI 295s, but that would depend on how much other gaming you do on your PC. If none, drop it too.

This will still be a nice computer and will be well under 3K

[zanthor]

No budget... yea, thats never an accurate statement.

http://www.hardcorecomputer.com/Prod...tReactor3.aspx

$10,000 and still can't 5 box!

[jak3676]

I'd start here

i7 920
12GB of fast DDR3
Intel G2 SSD's - enough for OS and WoW (i.e. 120GB)
4870x2 or 295 video card
Win7 (64-bit)

Anything past that won't really give you any noticable inprovment in WoW multiboxing. But you can always spent more if you want to.

If you start going down the "money is no object thing", then you could look at a nice RAID array of SSD's, 24GB of RAM for a RAM-drive, and SLI video cards. You won't notice it in-game at all, but booting Win7 in like 5 seconds is nice and the other improvments will help some other games. Personally, I'd stop spending more on 1 machine after I had what I listed above. Then start on a 2nd PC and multiple 30" displays Spending more to improve on 1 single machine just doesn't seem worth it.

[Whowantstoknow]

so,i am tired of "upgrading" my old System and wanna buy a brand new PC. I wanna play on 2 Monitors with 5 Clients..( main + 4 toons on other monitor )..What you think is needed to play without any problems ..settings on ultra etc..

1) SLI 285 GTX or 295 GTX? Or 2 GTX without SLI?
2) maybe a Raid 0 with 2 SSD ? maybe on a hardware controller?
3) 12 or 24 GB RAM?


i am not a "pro" oh these thinks and hope you can help me..whats you dream PC ..wothout money limits?

Only 1 suggestion: Wait until September 10th

[rahven32]

What happens on the 10th?