How good computer for 10 toons

[JohnGabriel]

RAM is very important yes, but for most cases the biggest improvement you can make for boxing is your harddrive.

Even a high speed raptor hard drive isnt really good enough for multiboxing. SS drives are something like 100 times faster than the fastest traditional raptor drive. (dont quote me on that though, cant remember exactly the speed difference)

I'd choose a priority system like this:
Get 8 gigs ram > get 64 bit windows > get solid state drives > get 12 gig ram

[d0z3rr]

RAM is very important yes, but for most cases the biggest improvement you can make for boxing is your harddrive.

Even a high speed raptor hard drive isnt really good enough for multiboxing. SS drives are something like 100 times faster than the fastest traditional raptor drive. (dont quote me on that though, cant remember exactly the speed difference)

I'd choose a priority system like this:
Get 8 gigs ram > get 64 bit windows > get solid state drives > get 12 gig ram

Competely false. I've been multiboxing on 7200rpm 16mb cache hard drives for years. The biggest improvents in performance I had was when I upgraded from a q6600 to an i7.

Hard drives will absolutely not increase your frame rates or the number of clients you have. All they do is reduce the amount of time characters load in large areas, and your loading screens. Who cares about loading screens in WoW anyways? On my crappy 7200 rpm drives I don't believe any loading screen in WoW lasted longer than 5 seconds.

[Sam DeathWalker]

I just took out my SSD (OCZ PCI one) and went back to the raptor.

Im getting on the more system ram bandwagon now.

In theory the HDD access time is very important for loading new character textures but maybe Win7 is good enough at checking system ram first for data before going to the HDD. I don't know. Maybe I bought the wrong SSD or maybe its just not good for a system with 4G ram (I usually use my main computer to run just one client). Maybe over time it just has that trim proplem but overall its just not worth it. Better to get a 2G video board I thinks.

If you run from one area of Org to another and get a lot of stuttering lag then your HDD to video card ram is loading textures to slow. Standing in one spot won't stress that as much as fewer new people will come into your sight.