Quote Originally Posted by Ualaa View Post
I've five boxed with both a GTX 275 (Current) and an HD 4870X2 (Conflicted with something), and video is not a limiting factor for me.

You have plenty of ram.

The hard drive will certainly work.
An SSD would be a cheap ($100 or less) upgrade, which I'd guess would be the best bang for the buck.

Not sure how your i3 compares.
My Q6600 really struggled, and realistically was not good enough for massive things like AV or Wintergrasp, in the WotLK expansion.
My i7 920 (stock speed) handles 40 alliance without issue, and mass pvp/combat with 4x Army of the Dead etc.. without any issues at all.

I'd think if you had medium-high settings for view distance on the main.
With medium settings for the rest.
And lower settings on the slaves, you'd run fine 5-boxing.

Sajuuk definitely knows a lot more about hardware than I do.
There's no doubt that older generation video cards will work just as well, but if you're buying from scratch and do some looking you can get newer generation stuff for about the same price, unless you move to the used market. Even then, I haven't exactly perused that market much myself (mainly because I don't want to end up spending a boatload of money. )

For some reference the 5450 is on the low end of the scale for graphics, but if found to be an issue can certainly be swapped.

As for the i3, it looks to be a dual core with hyperthreading, so it can act like a quad core. So it should work fine for multiboxing five. If issues come up it's just an expense issue to upgrade to a higher level processor. (i7-2600k, aka the sandy bridge equivalent of the i7-920/930, or an i5 level processor if you so choose.)