Getting Started.

[H2BH]

Hi!

Im new to this great forum and i first wanna say thanks for all the great topics here .

Well now to the point, im thinking of setting up a "5-box" system as i already have 3 wow accounts.

But i have some questions.

Hardware?

Is this computer enough to run five WoW's.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5200+ (2.61Ghz)
2GB DDR3
GeForce 8800 GTX

or should i get another 8800GTX and expand with 2GB ram?

Im also gonna buy 2 more LG L194WS monitors with a Matrox triplehead2go and 2 more accounts and ofc some gamecards.

Then im wondering whats the best way to set all this up, guessing with Keyclone.
And i saw some that someone wrote a *.bin file to get all the sections right, but is there any chance to easy create something like that for widescreen monitors? im thinking of having 1 widescreen in the middle (normal standing) and 1 on each side standing straight and then split those into 50/50 on each account.

Well im just looking for tips, as im gonna do it anyway but it can be great with a little help sometimes

Hmm thats the things i have to check

//Danni

[opt]

welcome to the community bud.
That machine will be great for it, dont expect perfect frame rate at max graphics or nothing, but by far will make your gaming enjoyable.
The two side monitors in portrait mode seems to be a pretty popular way to go at the moment, and im sure if i was redoing my system i would look at also doing this.
go for gold man, go 5 the games much more enjoyable when your doing everything yourself and is a true accomplishment when you can solo all the 5man content.
As for the second video card you will require this for a 3rd monitor, im not farmiliar too much with the triplehead2go card so i cant really help you there. The extra memory would be fantastic, although i used to run 5 instances with only 2g and it was ..well..ok to play
Gl with it all keep us posted.

[H2BH]

welcome to the community bud.
That machine will be great for it, dont expect perfect frame rate at max graphics or nothing, but by far will make your gaming enjoyable.
The two side monitors in portrait mode seems to be a pretty popular way to go at the moment, and im sure if i was redoing my system i would look at also doing this.
go for gold man, go 5 the games much more enjoyable when your doing everything yourself and is a true accomplishment when you can solo all the 5man content.
As for the second video card you will require this for a 3rd monitor, im not farmiliar too much with the triplehead2go card so i cant really help you there. The extra memory would be fantastic, although i used to run 5 instances with only 2g and it was ..well..ok to play
Gl with it all keep us posted.

Thanks for the welcome

Well as i dont wanna post all information about the Matrox TripleHead2Go im posting this link - http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/gx...gital/home.php
As its the one im planning to get , but then i dont really need to get another graphic card because i was thinking about the performance but if its playable its ok for me

But when you played with 2GB of ram did you notice any lacks/lag of somethings because u wrote "..well..ok to play" ?

And heres a more specified setup of what i got:

Computer 1 (Desktop):

Motherboard:              Asus CROSSHAIR, nForce 590 SLI, DDR2
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ 2.6GHz Socket AM2
RAM:              Kingston DDR2 HyperX PC6400 2048MB CL4
Graphic Card: Asus GeForce 8800GTX 768MB GDDR3
Space:

Western Digital Raptor 150GB SATA
Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB SATA2 x 4

Computer 2 (Laptop): 
Lenovo N200 15.4"WXGA,Cel M530, 1.5 GB,120GB,DVD±RW,WLAN/BT,VHB

So im guessing this would be enough to run 5 WoWs then, but should i copy my wow five times or just install it five times or can i run my *.exe five times? or well whats the best copying?

Greetz //Danni


EDIT

Is it good to play 5 shamans? easy to solo instances etc?

[Teq]

Nice machine you have there. But before anything, add more ram. If you will run 5 clients on 1 machine and want to 'enjoy' instances, you realy should get 6g+. That might mean you need a 64bit OS though. Otherwise get as much as your OS will use.

Also, I dont know if you know this, but i think someone put some stuff on your back. You might want to take a look at that.


Welcome btw

[Eteocles]

Your machine is good, but if you wanna run 5 on one comp I STRONGLY recommend moving up to a quad-core instead of dual-core. Distribute the load a little better. Card should be fine, ram might be fine but if you can slap another gb or two in that would certainly help; also you may want to consider moving your copies to multiple hard drives if you have them, 1 wow seeking per drive is faster than 5 wows all fighting each other seeking the same thing; your HD only seeks so fast :p

4gb is enough to run anything nowadays, don't go past that if you don't have to. Though 4gb will indeed require Vista and/or a 64bit OS due to xp/32bit simply not recognizing/properly utilizing more than 3gb or so. Though yours IS DDR3 and I have no idea how big the performance difference is vs DDR2...DDR3's too new for me to know alot about yet lol

[H2BH]

Nice machine you have there. But before anything, add more ram. If you will run 5 clients on 1 machine and want to 'enjoy' instances, you realy should get 6g+. That might mean you need a 64bit OS though. Otherwise get as much as your OS will use.

Also, I dont know if you know this, but i think someone put some stuff on your back. You might want to take a look at that.


Welcome btw

Well yeah ive thought about that but i dont wanna get Vista or a 64bit OS, but im gonna check about flashing bios if that would help reco the 4gb instead of 3gb
and what do you mean by "think someone put some stuff on your back. You might want to take a look at that."

And btw thanks for the welcome

Your machine is good, but if you wanna run 5 on one comp I STRONGLY recommend moving up to a quad-core instead of dual-core. Distribute the load a little better. Card should be fine, ram might be fine but if you can slap another gb or two in that would certainly help; also you may want to consider moving your copies to multiple hard drives if you have them, 1 wow seeking per drive is faster than 5 wows all fighting each other seeking the same thing; your HD only seeks so fast

4gb is enough to run anything nowadays, don't go past that if you don't have to. Though 4gb will indeed require Vista and/or a 64bit OS due to xp/32bit simply not recognizing/properly utilizing more than 3gb or so. Though yours IS DDR3 and I have no idea how big the performance difference is vs DDR2...DDR3's too new for me to know alot about yet lol

Well i actually wrote wrong on the ram its regular DDR2, and about the quad-core ive thought about that before due to i produce music also.
But atm im running 3 accounts on the same computer, max quality and i also run them on the exact *.exe file and havnt noticed any delay, latency problem or lack of something.

But like you said 5 wow on each drive should give a little boost, but then we are getting another "conflict" that the computer have to solve the seeking to 5 drives instead of 1. and the Raptor disk is 10k rpm so its faster then the other ones. and by only changing 1 char like c:/wow1 c:/wow2 etc etc doesnt make that big change

Well thanks for the tip and hoping to get more tips because gonna buy all things needed next week

[Eteocles]

Yeah I tribox off a dual-core atm too, similar specs but with a lower vidcard, all windowed & maximized at 1280x1024 full graphics(but no useless options like AA/etc enabled, performance > eye candy yo); adding those 2 more will most likely become noticeable though, and yeah since you do the music stuff I'd go for a quadcore, never hurts to have the extra power when you need it if you can afford it lol

[H2BH]

Yeah checked the price on a quad-core cpu and it wasnt much at all the dual core is actually more expensive :P

AMD Phenom 9600 Quad-Core 2.3 GHz Boxed , 4MB Cache, Socket AM2+ but maybee that CPU aint the best :P gonna look it all up with a uncle of mine that runs a store to see what quad-cores that is really worth to get before something else uber comes :P

But im gonna check this one out "Phenom X2 GP-6800" when it comes or even if it has come because it will have a clockfreq from 2.4 - 2.8Ghz and the buss at mega 4000 MHz wich is real good for games, and the Phenom is actually the "real" quadcore cpus yet as the Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 is really only 2 x dual core.

But hey im gonna check it up before i buy a new processor maybee ill have to change moderboard also