New Rig Input

[Chumbucket]

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[MiRai]

I agree that the AMD chip is pretty weak in comparison to anything Intel has offered in the last 3 years. Intel's 2600K which was released Q1 2011 is faster (and most likely way better for multiboxing because of Hyper-Threading) than the AMD 6100K.

It's difficult to find benchmarks with this CPU and a discrete GPU because all reviews are testing it's APU against low-end Intel chips and their IGP -- Bot of which that would get you nowhere with multiboxing.

- consider getting an R290 or 290X instead of the 7970 (semi dual) because a single card will always give you less problems

Yes, the R290 is a bit better than a 7970 (which was re-badged to a 280X), but the 7970 isn't a dual-GPU card.

So, I'm looking into a rig with 12 cores at 2.7 Ghz vs a rig with 6 cores at 3.6 Ghz. What do you guys think would have the best multiboxing performance given equal Ram and graphics cards? What bottlenecks would you look for? How many accounts could one expect to run?

You'd have to list out the entire computer for anyone to identify any bottlenecks, but you should start a new thread with those details.