How much ram does it requiers?

[MiRai]

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.

Why not use a window swapping macro instead of keeping them on Ultra? That's a giant waste and eats up
unnecessary VRAM.

[thefunk]

8 gig is fine. Really. 12 gig if you want to have high setting on all windows. 16 gig if you want to browse sites Fenril favors at the same time. And 24 gig if you're called sam.

[Kekkerer]

Why not use a window swapping macro instead of keeping them on Ultra? That's a giant waste and eats up
unnecessary VRAM.

Yes that would be fine if you're looking at your main screen only but sometimes you need to glance over to your slaves while you don't want to window swap because something else is going on.

Example:
You're healing your slaves in AV and one of them gets hexed and starts going off in some random direction. Now it can be quite disorienting to window swap immediately to see exactly where he is going off to because your view distance is so low. With the distance on ultra I can determine his location easily without swapping, then swap and aim him and autorun him towards my leader.

[MiRai]

8 gig is fine. Really. 12 gig if you want to have high setting on all windows. 16 gig if you want to browse sites Fenril favors at the same time. And 24 gig if you're called sam.

Ha! In my 10 box Orgrimmar video I have around 30+ tabs open in Firefox and still barely go over 10GB of
RAM usage.

[MiRai]

Yes that would be fine if you're looking at your main screen only but sometimes you need to glance over to your slaves while you don't want to window swap because something else is going on.

Example:
You're healing your slaves in AV and one of them gets hexed and starts going off in some random direction. Now it can be quite disorienting to window swap immediately to see exactly where he is going off to because your view distance is so low. With the distance on ultra I can determine his location easily without swapping, then swap and aim him and autorun him towards my leader.

I guess I don't understand why you need to see the environment 1000 yards away in order to know where your
hexed character is hopping off to. A window swapping macro doesn't necessarily mean your slave windows are
on the lowest settings possible... just, not on Ultra.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Is there some practical advantage to having ground clutter on ultra, I can understand view distance but whats good about ground clutter?

More ram is always better as win 7 will generally cache the data and you don't have to go to the disk for it if its in system ram.

[Kekkerer]

There is a practical advantage to having ground clutter on ultra. You may or may not have noticed that when you play with your view distance zoomed out to the max, you sometimes run into invisible objects that may or may not become visible as you're running into them. This is because the distance at which these objects are loaded in does not start at your character which you might expect but at the position of your camera. So in order to enjoy playing at max zoom level you need to maximize the ground clutter render distance so that you can avoid running into objects such as lamp posts or hedges.

[Kekkerer]

I think that I'm coming off a bit mad but recommending 8GB of memory to someone building a new system and using god knows what screen resolution is irresponsible especially if you consider that we're talking about a price difference of ~50 EUR.

[MiRai]

There is a practical advantage to having ground clutter on ultra. You may or may not have noticed that when you play with your view distance zoomed out to the max, you sometimes run into invisible objects that may or may not become visible as you're running into them. This is because the distance at which these objects are loaded in does not start at your character which you might expect but at the position of your camera. So in order to enjoy playing at max zoom level you need to maximize the ground clutter render distance so that you can avoid running into objects such as lamp posts or hedges.

Ground Clutter does not affect the distance at which objects like fences and lamp posts are drawn,
Environmental Detail does. Ground Clutter affects how much grass and foliage you see on the ground and how
dense it is. Just doing a quick in game test at the moment and zoomed all the way (Max Camera Distance slider
on Far too) out I can easily see a fence that could trip me up well over 30 yards away with my
Environmental Detail on the Good setting.

I think that I'm coming off a bit mad but recommending 8GB of memory to someone building a new system and using god knows what screen resolution is irresponsible especially if you consider that we're talking about a price difference of ~50 EUR.

Hey, I'm all for a lot of RAM as well and I'm not here to argue. But the OP asked if he could 5 box with 8GB of
RAM when it is completely viable to only have 8GB of RAM to 5 box with. I don't think it's irresponsible that
everyone is saying that 8GB of RAM is just fine when you're arguing that more than 8GB of RAM is necessary
in order to have View Distance and Ground Clutter set to Ultra on all 5 windows when neither one of those is
necessary at all.

[valle2000]

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?

I have 12 GB in my computer and running 5 wow-clients + always having my Outlook running in background never uses more than 6-7 GB. If skipping outlook my wow-clients even run using less than 6 GB.

So 8 GB is optimal if you want to have a mail-client and/or web browser running at the same time.