Single or many WoW installs?

[marvein]

*edit* I think im going to look into shrinking my 5boxers from 5 directories down to 2 and moving them to seperate drives. there shouldnt be an issue with macros since macros/keybindings are on a per account basis. This will require some testing but hopefuly it improves things a lot. Might even put the clones on a raptor to make them even better since SSD's are still way too pricey.

Greetings,

I tried that initially : keeping WoW1 on its own and junctioning 2-5 on WoW2. It was very nice but not uber.

But when I junctioned 2-5 on WoW1 (ie. all 5 clients reading Data on the same folder), then it turned magic indeed : it felt like I was playing on a solo client.

Raptor are fast but noisy : you can tell when it works. And it's just really quieter now 8)

Also, Sam's link to Tom Hardware is a good reminder that SSD aren't that an obvious bullet-proof of a solution for our application, thank you for that.
I think I'll hold for a bit and get a more decent CPU cooler from Sigmatek to start doing proper O/C on the Quad 6600.

Especially since the new generation of Quads 45n from Intel (aka 9450 and so on) seem to have a lower fixed multiplier (8x vs. 9x) and O/C capability than the 6600, with current motherboards (something about FSB 1800mhz vs. 1333mhz).
Too geeky for an old last-gen fart like me but here's the thread if you enjoy the talk :thumbsup:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/...it-q9450-e8400

/salute

Ya Ive already binned the raptor idea, they are just too much money for what they are, and id much rather have an SSD anyways but Im not going to shell out for that either.
Basically what my setup right now looks like is this
c:\program files\world of warcraft
c:\WoW\
d:\Warcraft\Primary
d:\Warcraft\Secondary
d:\Warcraft\WOW3
d:\Warcraft\WOW4
d:\Warcraft\WOW5
Now I dont run all these at once lol. the one in c\prog\blah blah is the main default install where I play my mains (druid/huter/rogue/etc) the one in root of C is if Im on my main and I need one of my alts online to do whatever, be it some arena/bg, item transfer, crafting, etc. I did this one recently because some addons (like auctioneer) were throwing errors left and right when being run twice from same set of files. The directories on D are my multibox army. Despite it being named secondary there is nothing special about that one. I did that initially with the plan of completely moving my main WoW folders over to this drive but I decided against it due to addon configuration. So I think what I am going to do is move the primary over to the root of C instead of the one there and then merge secondary->5 into one directory and launch my alts from there. Doing this should help eliminate some oddities I have with my addons and get them all nice and normalized. And doing this really should help performance not to mention free up space for FRAPS I just hope I dont have to redo too much of my config if I were to do this.