Dream computer

[EsaJunttila]

So, if you now got 1500-2000 to put together new computer for 5-boxing, how would it be? What motherboard, what graphis cards, how much and what speed memory and so on.

And what about those additional "keyboards"? How essential are they?

[Nuclearone]

Not sure what has gotten into me today. Before today I've made about 10 posts in a year and a half. Usually I just lurk. IMO, builds such as:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...n-pc,2503.html

would be more than enough. I like tom's hardware, and use it when I need to build a new PC for myself.

As far as keyboards go, having extra buttons is nice. I use a Logitech G-15 myself coupled with ISboxer, and wouldn't change much. I'm considering getting a G-13 as well. Neither of these are required or necessary to multibox though. I'm sure you would enjoy a regular keyboard from Walmart almost (but not quite) as much.

[HPAVC]

I would lurk here for a while, especially if your sourcing specific components. They often have pretty good bundle deals suggested that are unadvertised posted.

[yaki]

Most of my dreams would be way, way over $2000. For that you get my basic softboxing computer: a quad core CPU and a slew of RAM, plus a decent video card (~500MB+ of VRAM if possible) and reliable parts for whatever other guts are necessary to make it turn on.

Also TH is at the shallow end of the gene pool as far as hardware sites go. Try [H], Anandtech, something like that. Even for the forums...the more technically adept people will tend to register at the better sites. But really, the above is what you need, plus a quick read-over once you have a complete build together to get it checked for things like POS power supplies.

[Emo?]

100+ gb SSd disc for windows + wow is a must if you buy new computer nowdays, loads in seconds. Insane!
6-12 gb of RAM DDR3
1gb HD graphic card
i7 920 Processor

All that togeather with a nice chasi and some other good parts results in a computer for about 140 euros.

[Clone]

100+ gb SSd disc for windows + wow is a must if you buy new computer nowdays, loads in seconds. Insane!
6-12 gb of RAM DDR3
1gb HD graphic card
i7 920 Processor

All that togeather with a nice chasi and some other good parts results in a computer for about 140 euros.

For 140 euros Ill take 10 of those plz

[yaki]

100+ gb SSd disc for windows + wow is a must if you buy new computer nowdays

Don't put Windows on an SSD. If you have a cheap one, it will work very badly. If you have an expensive one, it's a waste - big deal, it will boot faster, because you do that SO often on a modern PC.

WoW data directory, sure, why not, Dalaran will load faster when it's not server-side. If you load Dalaran a lot.

[siwoolley]

Just my 2cp from someone who's just built himself a new rig and recently started 5-boxing.

I went with:

mobo : Asus 6pt
CPU : Intel i7 920
CPU Cooler : Corsair H50
Gfx : ATI Radeon 5850
RAM : 6gig DDR3. (some recommend 12, but 6 gig overclocks better and is more than enough)
Case : Antec 902 (lots of room, quality build and enough fans to create your own wind tunnel!)
PSU : Corsair 650

I've got Windows 7 premium and 1 copy of wow on a 64gb SSD drive. (look for 200/150+ read/write speeds) I use ISBoxer to sort out my character settings for me, which so far i've had no issues with at all!

Keyboard / mouse / headset / x-keys etc etc are generally personal choice. I spent around £100 in total on them though.

All in all it came to £1400 for me. I've overclocked the CPU easily to 3.8, and the GFX Card to about a 15% clock in total.

With the above, running on res of 1920x1080 through my 37" TV, and 1280x1024 on a 19" for my slaves; i get a steady 60fps on my main, and 30fps on slaves. Even in Dalaran. That's with max settings on my master, and medium settings on the slaves.

Hope that helps a little.

[Ualaa]

I've got a similar system to Sirwoolley, and am happy with it.

Asus P6T (x58 chipset)
i7, 920, stock speed.
12gb ddr @1600mhz.
Antec 900 gamer case.
Nvidia GTX 275 (896mb)

Recently got Win7, but have not finished backing up C drive, so haven't put it on yet.

And have a shiny new SSD (Patriot Torqx 64gb) which has wow on it now (getting 200mb/sec read, they advertised 220, so close enough). I like that they offer a 10yr warranty on their drives.

[killkat]

How much faster is WoW on ssd? Is it jaw dropping, or noticeable but nothing special? Particularly in regard to 5 box.

Planning on an i7/920 box, but nothing I do really benefit from Hyperthreading, so thinking about change it to i5/750 and add a ssd for about the same price.