question re: hardware req for 10 boxing

[Sajuuk]

if you can get 24 G ram (either 12 slots X 2G or 6 slots X 4G) and can run the whole wow folder in ram then you are golden, then the limit would be whatever is left over and like 600K per client (wild guess).

Except that's prohibitively expensive and you'd be better off (money wise) using one (or a couple) solid state hard drives in raid.

[Sbrowne55]

If you're wanting to box 10 on one pc, i7 is the best route.

Quad has 4 cores, and I7 has 5, I found each core could handle 2 wow's running, anymore added fps issues, and lag.

Ram really is important, but even with 12 gigs, I was fine at lowest rez, the more the smoother it will be. I have 24gigs now, and there is never any lag at all.

There is a section within keyclone, called CPU affinity, you can assign each wow to a core.

Also if you plan to buy a super pc, maybe turn your old one into your main pc , and run your tank on it. Keep your boxing pc clean too, all thsoe programs can boggle your performance up.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Do you have the wow folder in a ram drive?

What motherboard/ram you using to get the 24G?



Why run a warrior when you have a Paliden as tank? You are able to off tank with a mellee while running a main tank also?

[alcattle]

If you're wanting to box 10 on one pc, i7 is the best route.

Quad has 4 cores, and I7 has 5, I found each core could handle 2 wow's running, anymore added fps issues, and lag.

I think you mean the i7 has 4 physical cores and 4 logical cores, I think they are called

There is a section within keyclone, called CPU affinity, you can assign each wow to a core.

Wow has this built in and other boxing software has a way to set it also. For a quad, it is 255 but I do not know it they have shown the number for 6 or 8 cores. I think you use 1 set per toon such core 1 & 2; 3 & 4 so you use 1 of each type core.

[Owltoid]

Actually, for a quad I think it's 15. You have to count in binary. For 8 cores (logical or physical) it's 255.

[grap]

Actually, for a quad I think it's 15. You have to count in binary

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Yes, for Q or i7 and HT off it s 15.

intel quad is more called 2+2 cores .... and the i7 is a true 4 physical cores and 4 logical cores with HT off or 8 logical cores with HT on.

The last new i7 980x and i7 970 are with 6 true physical cores so 6/12 logical cores without/with HT.