Multiboxing Hardware Science!

[MiRai]

In addition to the SLI testing, I did attempt to utilize the total VRAM of both cards and "split" the games
between them essentially giving me 6GB of VRAM.

I was successful and it does indeed work.

However, due to what seems to be a bug on Blizzard's end this can only currently be accomplished using DX9.
Using DX11, I was unable to successfully set which monitor I wanted certain windows to launch on w/o getting
an error during the selection in the drop down menu. If I tried to force this through the config.wtf the windows
would revert back to their default 800x600 resolution which is not what I wanted. There are a few reports of
this on Blizzard's Technical Support forum but, changing from DX11 to DX9 alleviated the problem.

Doing this while using DX9 and five clients did not seem to be worth anyone's time. DX9 was really showing its
age because I was easily able to set all 5 clients to Ultra and they would barely take up over 1GB of combined
VRAM between the cards. On the other hand, using High settings and a single GTX 580 I can take up over 2GB
of VRAM in DX11.

Even in it's current bugged state, I can definitely see this feature being useful for people who 10+ box. I'm
going to guess that I could throw at least 10 characters on each video card and still be under the 3GB limit in
DX9 and without using horseshit video settings. If someone really wanted to crank down the settings I'd bet
you could jam 20 characters per 3GB card on there. I'm not saying a single CPU could handle this by any
means... but, perhaps I just sparked another idea for the next test.

If you are wanting to attempt to use this, you'll need to create a special window layout with whatever software
you're using because you need to keep the game windows running on the monitors they launch on. If you start
swapping game windows between monitors you do take a performance hit.

I was going to provide a screenshot for this but, it accidentally got overwritten in my late night stupor.



As for the Hyper-Threading VS No-Hyper-Threading testing. Soon™