Quote Originally Posted by Kekkerer View Post
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.