question re: hardware req for 10 boxing

[Slats]

I'm interested in this also but I only want one machine.

I only have a Quad Core Q9550, 8GB DDR2 RAM, 2x SSD and a single ATi Radeon 5870

I have two monitors, a 'main' 27" Dell and a 23" Acer which has my 4 Slaves on it atm.

I really love swapping PiP and love how fast IS is at it, I'm wondering if I used a system with 2 graphics cards and forced ISBoxer to make the 2nd set of 5 characters use the 2nd card?

Still not sure how I would do monitors though and I'm probably going to need newer Gen2 SSD's.

I'd love to see ISBoxer be able to manage full window set swaps with one key. ie make slot 1 and slot 6 (main and main 2) swap. Or make slot 1 2 3 4 5 swap totally with slot 6 7 8 9 10.

Would be cool to be able to do that so I could have one team sitting in Dalaran Crafting while I did an instance on the others.

Anyway I'm just babbing on but will keep an eye on this thread.

[echo]

Thanks for your feedback Nitro. I will look into that option.

Hi Slats, When I posted this thread I was thinking the same thing you are, trying to make one box that can handle all 10. I PM'ed Mercurio since he seems to be doing very well for himself boxing ICC, and he was kind enough to let me know that he is also doing what Nitro said. (2 PC, 2 monitors with 5 toons on each monitor, keyclone only).

So, unless someone can configure a rig that can handle 10 wow on one PC with multiple monitor output, I guess that's that. :/


on a tangent, does anyone here run newer hardware like the core i7 and DDR3 mems? If so, have you tried to stress test your system and see how many instances of wow you can handle smoothly? Thanks in advance to any who can help!

[Sajuuk]

So, unless someone can configure a rig that can handle 10 wow on one PC with multiple monitor output, I guess that's that. :/


on a tangent, does anyone here run newer hardware like the core i7 and DDR3 mems? If so, have you tried to stress test your system and see how many instances of wow you can handle smoothly? Thanks in advance to any who can help!

Many of us run i7 systems, but I personally haven't stress tested how many instances of Warcraft I could run. I fully believe that you can run (and I think a couple people do) run ten characters on one i7 rig. Obviously all your wows would be running at a lower resolutions with a minimum of mods/settings, but it is doable. That said using two machines makes things go much smoother.

As far as multiple monitors go, it depends on a couple things: The graphics card you have, the size of the card, and the layout of your motherboard. For a normal graphics card (two outputs, the newish ati 5XXX series support eyefinity/3 cards each) you get two monitors per card.

[Slats]

Still musing this over. I think I'll wait till a decent amount of Cataclysm raids are being cleared to decide if this idea still interests me as much as watching Thera/Mecurio's videos now.

[zenga]

Still musing this over. I think I'll wait till a decent amount of Cataclysm raids are being cleared to decide if this idea still interests me as much as watching Thera/Mecurio's videos now.

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and ... if you make a new system that can handle 10 clients fine in the present, then you might regret that decision when cata hits. 2 'normal' systems that can handle wow now and that are scalable (easy upgrades) seems the way to go imo.