Recommended System Specifications

As a general rule of thumb for multiboxing 3D games on one PC, you want about one CPU core and at least 1GB of RAM per game instance, and a middle to high grade video card with at least 512MB of RAM on it.
Approximate recommendations
  • 2 instances: 2 CPU Cores, 2GB RAM, 512MB video card
  • 3 instances: 2-4 CPU cores, 3GB RAM, 512MB video card
  • 4 instances: 3-4 CPU cores, 4GB RAM, 512MB video card
  • 5 instances: 4-6 CPU cores, 5GB RAM, 512MB video card
  • 6 instances: 4-6 CPU cores, 6GB RAM, 512MB video card

Note: Some Intel chips, such as the i7, will list having more CPU cores (logically) than they physically have. These extra CPU cores do not count as part of our recommendations as they cannot fully power a game instance and must be paired with a physical core (See i7 CPU: Assigning Separate Cores to Different Clients).
See CPU Management for more information on this topic.