5 boxing.

[-silencer-]

I'm currectly quadboxing. 3 wow's on my main pc and 1 wow on a 7 year old pc. Now i'd like to go for 5 boxing, but before that i need to upgrade my PC or buy a second one to run 2 or 3 slaves on.

My main pc's specs:
GigaByte GA-P35-DS3R, P35 (ATX, Sound, LAN, SATA II, RAID)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 (S775, 2x3,00GHz, 4MB, 1333MHz FSB, Boxed
Corsair 2GB DDR2 (2x1GB) PC6400 800Mhz CL4 (TWIN2X2048-6400C4) (bought another 2x 1g DDR ram)
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT xfx 512 mb

Get a SSD to have much faster access to data resources, and get 4GB of ram. That PC *can* 5-box, as I 5-boxed for a year on this machine:
E6600, 4GB RAM (only WinXP 32-bit though), RAID0 2x 36GB Raptors, 8800GTX.
Now, a 5-boxing machine can be done cheap.. just upgrade that E6850 to a Q6600 (make sure your motherboard supports it though), get 8GB of RAM, get 64-bit Windows, an SSD (even a cheap $100 will be better than any HD for hosting WoW), and a newer videocard.

[Littleburst]

What exactly is the gain in having SSD memory? I asume at least loading will be faster and i guess Dalaran will run smoother, but do you really notice a difference once you get into a BG and played for 5 min? So do you notice a difference when you're just 'playing' and not HSing to dalaran or porting somewhere?

[Talos]

Get a SSD to have much faster access to data resources, and get 4GB of ram. That PC *can* 5-box, as I 5-boxed for a year on this machine:
E6600, 4GB RAM (only WinXP 32-bit though), RAID0 2x 36GB Raptors, 8800GTX.
Now, a 5-boxing machine can be done cheap.. just upgrade that E6850 to a Q6600 (make sure your motherboard supports it though), get 8GB of RAM, get 64-bit Windows, an SSD (even a cheap $100 will be better than any HD for hosting WoW), and a newer videocard.

I took the liberty of making a small shoppinglist for you based on my opinions and Silencers opinion
http://azerty.nl/winkelmandje/winkel...egen=1&product[245945]=1&product[91501]=1&product[34543]=1
(The SSD is optional, its the cheapest one that still has a high read speed (writespeed is slower though))

You current motherboard is capable of using the Quadcore processor and the memory i linked according to the Gigabyte website http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/...ProductID=2543

Let me know what you think of it

[Littleburst]

I took the liberty of making a small shoppinglist for you based on my opinions and Silencers opinion
http://azerty.nl/winkelmandje/winkel...egen=1&product[245945]=1&product[91501]=1&product[34543]=1
(The SSD is optional, its the cheapest one that still has a high read speed (writespeed is slower though))

You current motherboard is capable of using the Quadcore processor and the memory i linked according to the Gigabyte website http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/...ProductID=2543

Let me know what you think of it

Thanks, but i'm affraid my "winkelmandje is leeg"(shopping list is empyty) So i'd greatly appriciate it if you could make one i can see aswell. Thanks a lot

Allready found out that my motherboard idd supports the quadcore. So that's good.

[Talos]

Thanks, but i'm affraid my "winkelmandje is leeg"(shopping list is empyty) So i'd greatly appriciate it if you could make one i can see aswell. Thanks a lot

Allready found out that my motherboard idd supports the quadcore. So that's good.

You need to select the entire line and copy/paste it into a new window... the forum cuts off the link halfway (only half of it is hyperlinked)

http://azerty.nl/winkelmandje/winkel...egen=1&product
[245945]=1&product[91501]=1&product[34543]=1

^^^^^copy these lines and paste them together in a new tab or window (somehow the [ cuts off the link)


SCREW THAT.... Forum keeps crapping up this big link....
i made you a tinyurl instead

http://tinyurl.com/yd29kpx

Enjoy

[Littleburst]

You need to select the entire line and copy/paste it into a new window... the forum cuts off the link halfway (only half of it is hyperlinked)

http://azerty.nl/winkelmandje/winkel...egen=1&product
[245945]=1&product[91501]=1&product[34543]=1

^^^^^copy these lines and paste them together in a new tab or window (somehow the [ cuts off the link)


SCREW THAT.... Forum keeps crapping up this big link....
i made you a tinyurl instead

http://tinyurl.com/yd29kpx

Enjoy

I guess i'm the noob who fails to copy an URL now :P

Thanks A LOT! that's like a lot cheaper then i found somewhere else, i'll have someone else with some knowledge take a look at it and then probably order it from Azerty. So this saved me so much time.

[dRiN]

I know littleburst from my guild, he is an old member . Im also a multiboxer and run with 2 x spinpoint disks. I have almost no loadlag in dalaran. The pricing isnt too bad and his motherboard can also handle two disks in raid.

http://tweakers.net/pricewatch/24409...2hj-500gb.html

43,38 Euro per disk X 2 + 8 euro sendcosts +/- 100 Euro

I agree on the processor and on the memory. But if I would go for storage and speed I would go for the raidsetup with the spinpoints.

Why go for SSD if SATA disks in raid is an option?