5-boxing with HD5770 and i5 760 ?

[kinoh]

Hi there,

I have started 2-boxing on my old comp afew weeks ago.
After 6 years of use, it is time for me to buy a new comp, and I would like to know whether I will be able to 5-box WoW with a core i5 760, a HD5770 and 4G ram.

Thx for your opinion.

[Tight]

Well your ram will be at the low end but when i started 5 boxing i did it on a much worse machine than that.
You could always start like that and then upgrade your ram at a later point i guess.

[kinoh]

You would recommend getting 6G ?
The thing is, I'm not sure how long/often I'll keep playing, so I don't really feel like investing on h/w specific to wow multiboxing...

[Svpernova09]

You would recommend getting 6G ?
The thing is, I'm not sure how long/often I'll keep playing, so I don't really feel like investing on h/w specific to wow multiboxing...

In highly congested areas (Dalaran) 4gigs of ram is low. I run a quad 2.6, 8 gigs of ram and a HD5770 with very little lag.

[MiRai]

You would recommend getting 6G ?
The thing is, I'm not sure how long/often I'll keep playing, so I don't really feel like investing on h/w specific to wow multiboxing...

Socket 1156 utilizes dual channel meaning your best performance would come from 2GB [2 x 1GB], 4GB [2 x 2GB], 8GB [2 x 4GB or 4 x 2GB], 16GB [4 x 4GB], etc...

6GB is an odd number in this situation because you can't fill up 2 or 4 slots and make 6GB.

[daviddoran]

You could get 2 2GB sticks and 2 1GB sticks, 2GB+4GB=6GB... You don't need to use the exact same size sticks in the slots, just match the channels properly. But 8GB is definately easier to think about. I think they should start making 3GB sticks, plenty of dual channel boards would love 6GB from 2 sticks, and 3 channel boards would love 9GB configurations.

If you have a Microcenter nearby, they carry the Core i7 930 for the same price as everyone else sells the Core i5 750, so you could go for a LGA 1136 triple channel board if you wanted, and go for 6GB ram. It's what I plan on doing.

[thefunk]

i'm 5 boxing on a dual-core with 8 gig ram and SLOWWW hard drive, you should be fine, just don't let RAM and hard disk be the bottleneck.

Slightly off topic - anecdotally in a previous job in Sony in 2008, met a guy with a (no joke) 486 or pentium 1 (same difference). He used to come in 8:30, boot up and network for a good hour before returning to his desk just in time for windows to stop loading.


AT SONY.