Multiboxing Hardware Science!

[MiRai]

There was a prior discussion (starts around page 3) on Intel's Hyper-Threading here on the forums and I just wanted to do my own quick test on a 2600K before my trials ran out on this 10 box setup.

Video settings were identical from my 10 boxing Orgrimmar test run during all the screenshots taken. FRAPS is not running in this test and WoW is the only application which is using any CPU in all screenshots. Games were launched through Inner Space after a fresh system restart.

Orgrimmar [Tunnel] [HT = Disabled]

• 45% CPU Usage

• 60 FPS

Orgrimmar [City] [HT = Disabled]

• 100% CPU Usage (Pegged)
  

• 20-27 FPS

Orgrimmar [Tunnel] [HT = Enabled]

• 15% CPU Usage

• 60 FPS

Orgrimmar [City] [HT = Enabled]

• 75% CPU Usage
  

• 40-45 FPS

I also did a quick check to see how much View Distance on the main client affected FPS and it did not see to be that large of an impact. I was really just double checking to make sure that View Distance did not affect the distance at which characters could be actually seen. I do realize that if the View Distance setting actually affected this it would be a major dis/advantage for people depending on the machine they were using to play.

I always advocate that Hyper-Threading does not have a large impact on increasing gaming performance and that it has, at times, shown to actually decrease performance in certain applications. It does, however, happen to show a nice performance increase while 10 boxing World of Warcraft.

I have yet to do a 5 boxing test.