How much ram does it requiers?

[phozte]

Hello forum.

I asked on MMO-Champion about how much ram I should get for multiboxing 5 clients. They said 8gb ram isen't enought.
What's your opinion on that?

[lamf123]

Depends on the settings you use but somewhere between 600-900mb per instance is what I remember seeing. 8GB of memory should be fine to 5 box but more wouldnt hurt and memory is cheap Newegg had 8Gb (2x4GB) 1333 ddr3 on sale today for $59

[MiRai]

8GB is perfectly fine for 5 boxing. People have been 5 boxing with 8GB for awhile now. Shit... my 10 boxing
tests were only taking up 8GB + system resources.

[HPAVC]

If your building I would get more, if you have 8gb it should be just fine. If it isn't I would seriously look at tuning the slaves, they don't need the all the addons, video, etc your giving them.


You don't need crazy speed ram either save your money if your buying, this isn't that intensive.

[Bollwerk]

I 5-box on a 30"monitor (all windows full screen resolution) and 8GB is enough for me.

[Kekkerer]

8GB might seem perfectly fine on paper but it's not. I've got 12GB, virtual memory disabled and I've crashed once or twice because I've had 1080p videos on youtube buffering while multiboxing.

[F9thRet]

Go 8 gig and your fine.

I 5 box with 4 gig and all on low, and it works so so.

Stephen

[Zub]

To put it in perspective, i play 3-4 on a 4GB machine ok. As said above, the instances take about 700MB in my case. but i don;'t play with full details on

[Noids]

8GB might seem perfectly fine on paper but it's not. I've got 12GB, virtual memory disabled and I've crashed once or twice because I've had 1080p videos on youtube buffering while multiboxing.

I think the OP was wondering how much RAM is sufficient for boxing 5 clients as opposed to boxing 5 clients plus doing extra shit.

It was only recently that the amount of RAM a client was allowed to use was increased from 1.2GB to 2GB so 8GB has been fine for a while and will continue to be as long as you are not running a lot of crap in the background/addons etc. My 12GB is only ever 6-7GB full running a few addons like Jamba, Isboxer, Gladius, Auctionator.

I assume swiching to a 64bit client will increase memory requirements slightly and given the price of memory now, I would agree with the recommendations above of going for 12-16GB if you are planning a new build.

The memory speed is only really important if you are planning on overclocking. Saying that, I have no experience with the sandy bridge procs so it may not be necesary in this case.

If you have the system and can test it, get yourself 4 trial accounts and log the all into stormwind/org and see how you go.

[Kekkerer]

It also depends on what expectations you have in terms of performance and video features.

I've got view distance and ground clutter distance on ultra on slaves that already makes my clients take up 1GB of memory each at 1920x1200. Everything else is on low but these are not the sacrifices that i'm willing to make.