Xzin's Original 5 Box Setup

[Ellay]

Very nice setup man, glad to see it

[Bradster]

Thanks for sharing your old setup Xzin. It’s nice to see a picture and appreciate where it all started.


About what was said about being “Normal”, People don’t “Get It”. As strange as that comes off, Xzin is right. This recently 5 box computer project has caused me a lot of grief. From sharing my pictures and setup. The effects of something like this has on the “normal” person is never a good one. I learned the hard way its best to keep your mouth closed unless, you’re a place like here where something like this would be appreciated and not sent all over the net.

K, this reply may get too personal on here. But I've had one hell of week so give me a freebe.

As to what happened to me, I received an e-mail form my best friend’s wife. Haven’t spoke to her in 6 months, and my wife hasn’t spoke to her in a year. Showed my friend what I was doing, couple days later….. This is what happened when my friend told his wife about my not “Normal” computer setup.

Her (his wife) e-mail as follows :.( censored my wife’s name)
4 new computers for yourself?!?!?!? why dont you do something nice for xxxxxxx....why don't you take her on a cruise?!?!!? She would be REALLY surprised over that. Yeah, I think she deserves to be taken on a trip somewhere. Plus, $2000 can pay for an awesome all-inclusive stay at one of those Sandals resorts in the carribean. THINK ABOUT THAT. Buying all those computers is a BIG mistake!!!!! REALLY! Especially since xxxxxxx won't be able to use them, nor would want to. THINK ABOUT IT!!!!

Needless to say both of us were floored and offended about this message we received. Long story short, someone I had been best friends with for over 16 years, that friendship is now over. Due to the confrontation this e-mail created. Because this week I said “Check this out” this is what happened. Least my entire family is supportive of the whole thing; they really like seeing me getting really involved with something again.

To justify any further grief I received I created this http://www.bradster.net/fivebox.htm
On my website explaining why I 5 box. Please read it, people have a lot of different reasons to 5 box, mine sounds pretty human and most likely a direction no one thought for “why”.

My deal was worst case scenario (at least I’d hope!). My current setup scales with a lot of existing configurations on here. If I had something far out there, I’d most likely be on the same page with Xzin and not want to share it.

Still that doesn’t mean I don’t want to see it. I’d sure like too =) But I understand.

[Bradster]

Is it light glare, or do the Xkeys strip and pro both light up? That's pretty nice.

[Xzin]

The strip lights up. The desktop shown there does not.

[zanthor]

Everyone has their hobby... I personally don't see why someone would spend the better part of a house on a piece of body art (Tatoo)... however I see the beauty in that art, I don't question their motives to turn their arm/shoulder/back into a work of art... I simply appreciate it.

There was a day when someone getting a tatoo as such would have received much grief...

I've got a $3000 earring myself... it's a long story about how I got it, but it's a diamond from my ex's engagement ring and the reason I chose to do it was personal, and as a reminder to not take bullshit again like I did... I get questioned regularly why... but hey, it's my art.

I've got a pretty serious setup at home for my computers, it's not as nice as what many of you have here, but it's definitely not bad either. Three LCD's driven by two systems... Athlon 64's (6000 and 5600) with 2GB ram, high end nVidia cards (7900gt and 7600gs), lots of hard drive space, another lower range system for my DVR again with lots of hard drive space...

Luckily the folks I consider friends don't question me about it. Though I did catch some shit at work when I mentioned that I had a big parts order coming in and I wanted the afternoon off (PTO) so I could receive it and assemble... My boss considered denying the PTO til I said "It's not like you need to understand why I want time off, god knows it confuses me when you take PTO to work in your garden..."

Ultimately everyone has their own hobby and or vice, and those who embrace theirs and are truely amazing at it, will be either praised by those who embrace it as well, or disliked by those who don't understand it (or perhaps do, but wish they could afford it.)

I for one hate Xzin... simply because he can afford what I can't. It's simple isn't it?

If you need me I'll be pretending to play wow on my new printout of the 6 30" apple media displays I printed out...

[DokujiN]

I was going to write a long comment on how I admire what you've done and that I appreciate people that put their heart into something and make it special. Tried typing it down over and over and realized that I could cut it all down to one word:

Awesome!

[Xzin]

Thank you Doku .

[Lost Ninja]

Awesome!

Going with DokujiN here, this site cuts out so much of the idiocy of such a lot of the gamimg sites, especially those devoted to PvP titles. When I first started looking for information on multiboxing/dualboxing I only had the few posts on my current game forums and the one or two sites regarding Team Wizzy. Of the places that I asked for user help three out of four replies questioned my sanity, my right to a life and told me that I was breaching the EULA... etc. (Though interestingly all the GMs in three different games I have spoken to regarding dual boxing have all been happy with the idea.)

I already dual boxed, I used two N52s and Synergy in CoH. I got most of the way to cap before getting bored.

Then I found this site.

I was reading this thread and I thought of something I wanted to say:

I want to thank all the users of this site for posting informative, interesting and useful ideas thoughts and discussions. This is a great community that isn't divided over which side, which game or which OS. You don't need to wade through the rubbish to find the good stuff. Which is always nice.

So thanks again and long may it continue.

(edited for spelling)

[Runiat]

(Though interestingly all the GMs in three different games I have spoken to regarding dual boxing have all been happy with the idea.)

GMs loose their job if their company starts losing money. The more accounts the less chance of joining the LFJ channel - and you know how spammy that is!

I really love it how normal players seem convinced that the company to which they're paying $15/month isn't interested in money and would ban some of it's best costumers for having a slight disadvantage against a group of 5.
And of course how those players seem to believe that "Keybindings" in fact means "Awesome hacking skills allowing automated movements of several chars" whenever they see someone spread out his chars..