Buying computer for 10boxing

[dragoneye]

i've been 10boxing for awhile and i end up 5boxing more and the only raids i can clear are old/out-dated content because all the new cata raids are too hard to 10 box for me.... =(

i'd love to hear of what 10boxers can do in cata so i can get my butt to it... =)

[Lyonheart]

Well the current raid content is getting nerfed hard.. to make new 80s gearing up for Firelands easier. So I'm sure some of it will be easier to box after the patch. I'm building my PC to be able to 10 box down the road. But i will also be 5 boxing Rift.

[HPAVC]

Not sure why with that configuration two systems would be cheaper, he could remove a video card depending on what his monitor setup if he is just using two 1920x1200 monitors or whatever his eye strain likes.

That system is pretty tame for the modern gamer.

I would add a bigfoot card (2100, unless your guild or other games use mumble), I see more boost out of that than the ssd once the game is playing. You have a great (sic) windows 7 64bit os with overkill ram, when zoning you shouldnt have problems if your system is properly symlinked to mimic deduplication. All the data files are in memory once they are loaded once, all the slaves will take advantage.

[Ashley]

Well...

i7-2600K
12GB RAM
ATI HD 5850 1gb GDDR5
650w power supply

The above let me take 10 hunters into stormwind
http://ash.gdkr.net/wow/10boxing.png

[MiRai]

Well...

i7-2600K
8GB RAM
ATI HD 5850 1gb GDDR5
650w power supply

The above let me take 10 hunters into stormwind
http://ash.gdkr.net/wow/10boxing.png

You have more than 8GB of RAM seeing as you're using 8.27GB in the pic with 69% physical memory usage.

12GB * 0.69 = 8.27GB RAM

The next question is... why do you have 12GB of RAM? Dual-channel utilizes 2/4/8/16/32.

[Ashley]

Sorry, I meant 12gb. I bought 12gb RAM because it was advertised as being compatible with the mobo and was the highest quantity of bundled RAM within my price range. It was only after purchase someone told me about the whole dual-channel thing in IRC.

Well, it works, might not be as efficient as it could be (difference won't be that much of an impact), and the only time I'll be able to do something about it is buying a heatsink that doesn't hog the airspace over the ram slots and getting a 4th stick, or by buying ram with a low profile that'll sit under the heatsink snugly.

Runs fine and is a 10x better machine than what I've come from (Q6600, 6gb RAM, 1gb Nvidia 9500 GT).

[alcattle]

The 6950 is a dual gpu, right so you would be quad SLI/X-fire? might need to work that out before getting 2 of them.

[Sam DeathWalker]

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/201...-6950-review/1

6950 is single gpu.



Well, it works, might not be as efficient as it could be (difference won't be that much of an impact)

So true, don't spend any time to worry about that. Way better to have more single channel ram then to have less duel channel. (i.e. 12G is better then 8G even if the 8G is duel channel).

[Selz]

I like the system but you should really skip SLI / crossfire as people say
insted i would recommend you to get the Geforce 590 thats a really expensive one yes, but what it gives you is awesome
the new ATI card is actually better at performance but then again you cant throw anything on the 590 that it cant run, so basicly im just looking at the features the cards give you. and I must say the 590 brings something very interresting if you have in mind to get 3 big TV monitors later such as some cheap 3D samsung TVs just imagin the fun I would deffently go for this card

NOTE: This card is also useing dual GPU which isnt the supported for wow, yet i deffently believe you could run 10x wow even with 1 of thise GPUs

---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wMBS_bfkFk

[Sam DeathWalker]

How interesting there is a vram bottleneck even 2G ram cards ....

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/..._card_review/6

Go to the bottem of the page.


For WoW, I would not consider duel gpu cards. I would say the 580 3G card is the best you can get for multiboxing wow (unless there is a 3G AMD faster).