How good computer for 10 toons

[kaiverrettu]

How good computer would you approximately need to box 10 toons on lowest WoW settings?

Could

• AMD Athlon™ II X4, Quad-Core 64 Bit, 4x 2.3 GHz
• 8 GB DDR3-RAM

Get me anywhere close?

Thanks !

[Ualaa]

Not sure how well you would 10-box with that.

Warcraft would be physically limited by the amount of video ram you have.
If you don't have enough, then the game will not start at all.

After that, not enough ram is probably the biggest bottleneck.
And the cheapest fix, too.
I generally like to have 1GB for the OS, plus 1GB per client.
But I'm sure you could play with less than 1GB per client, particularly with minimal addons.

It can be a toss up between Processor and Hard Drive for the next upgrade.
A low end SSD can be an enormous boost in performance.
But the game is much more processor dependent than any other aspect of your system.



You can get trial accounts for free.
And while they cannot trade, use the auction house, whisper to anyone who does not have them on their friends list, etc...
They can have toons loaded on them, in SW/Org...
Which is a good indication of the stress level your system will face.

Grab a bunch of the trial accounts.
And see how many your system can handle.

You could also run Perfmon while doing this.
To get an idea what your bottlenecks are on the system.
Which are the ingredients you would ideally like to improve first.

[katsurahama]

I have an amd phenom ii x4 940 and my mobo only holds 8g of ram. My computer does five *acceptably* but i cannot see it doing ten. I doubt yours will either.

Do the trial acct thing first.

[kaiverrettu]

I have an amd phenom ii x4 940 and my mobo only holds 8g of ram. My computer does five *acceptably* but i cannot see it doing ten. I doubt yours will either.

Do the trial acct thing first.

Yeah im just thinking wether it would be worth it.. do you think 16gb of ram would do the job?

My current comp is fine for most of my needs, im just thinking wether I'd hit something like this for some multiboxing fun on the PTR's, wether I'd invest into something like this in the future.

If 8gb won't do the job I'll probably have to think about other solutions. But thanks for your help

[Sam DeathWalker]

I can do 7 with 8G, I would not go for more then seven though with your system. Seven is pushing the limit I might add, with an 8G system.

And thats playing full screen and with minimal effects, and you will lag in cities.

[EaTCarbS]

i7 w/ 12g ram.

save yourself any problems or meaningless speculation.

[MiRai]

i7 w/ 12g ram.

save yourself any problems or meaningless speculation.

I'm going to speculate...

Saying 12GB of RAM I'm assuming you are talking about socket 1366 i7's... which are over 2 years old at this point. Instead
of spending money on, at this point, a dying CPU/RAM combo he could spend about $100 more and and pickup a nice Sandy
Bridge 2600 CPU and a total of 16GB of RAM.

[coglistings]

I have an amd phenom ii x4 940 and my mobo only holds 8g of ram. My computer does five *acceptably* but i cannot see it doing ten. I doubt yours will either.

Do the trial acct thing first.

here is the thing about trial accounts. trial accounts will not test your setup's ability to handle a pvp heavy exchange, especially if you are on a low population server where running around org / stormwind is your test. I have ran around with substandard systems that were just fine for lvl'in ,but they had issue with lag and follow breakin when I hit LK areas, although they performed just fine in bc/vanilla content. Not sure how cata has effected it as since those systems have been parted off to friends/family as I have upgraded my setup.

GL

[Kicksome]

here is the thing about trial accounts. trial accounts will not test your setup's ability to handle a pvp heavy exchange, especially if you are on a low population server where running around org / stormwind is your test. I have ran around with substandard systems that were just fine for lvl'in ,but they had issue with lag and follow breakin when I hit LK areas, although they performed just fine in bc/vanilla content. Not sure how cata has effected it as since those systems have been parted off to friends/family as I have upgraded my setup.

GL

I agree with this. I had the same issues.

I ended up running 10 pretty well with i7 920, and 12 gigs of memory, 580gtx card, and SSD drive. I had to close down a lot of apps since 10 copeis of wow takes up close to 7-10gigs of memory. I ended up buying 24 gigs of ram for $300 and everything runs fine, aside from really heavy/ big TB battles. You probably don't need 24 gigs, but I need to keep programs like photoshop, visual studio and others open for work - so I needed it.

[Kekkerer]

dual 6core xeon and 24gigs of ram =)