Pc build for 5 man multiboxing

[Ughmahedhurtz]

On a dual-core system, you're probably going to have a bad day trying to 5-box regardless of settings.

8GB may work but others have had some issues running out of RAM. I play at 1920x1080 stacked and at medium settings on alts and moderately high settings on main I was occasionally getting "low resources" warnings from Windows with 12GB installed. Granted, I had a browser open to watch Netflix but most folks are going to have a browser running for item research, etc. I had no issues at 16GB.

The 950 will preclude you using anything higher than low settings unless you unload 3 of the 5 clients. I built a 950 system for a family member on a budget and it would barely run ONE copy of wow at moderately high settings back in WoD.


With that all said, I'd start with an i5 at 3.5GHz or better, 16GB RAM and a 1060 (the 960 is almost the same price). Or give us a budget and we can work on helping you compromise in the right places.

Also, see these threads where this has already been discussed with varying performance/budget targets in mind:

~$750 = http://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/5...ardware-Advice
~$1000-1200 = http://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/5...box-for-5-mans!
~$2300 = http://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/5...-Advice-Needed

And don't forget: http://www.bing.com/search?&q=site%3...m+budget+build

[Thomas12987]

This was my last gaming desktop and it ran 5 clients on medium settings pretty well.

Cyberteonpc Borg-Q Gaming Desktop - AMD FX-4130 3.8GHz Quad-Core, Zotak 750ti 8GB DDR3 Memory.

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How would a amd fx 8350 4.0ghz 8 core processor paired up with a rx480 4gb with 16gb of 2133mhz ddr4 memory do for a 5 man team multiboxing on wow?

[MiRai]

This was my last gaming desktop and it ran 5 clients on medium settings pretty well.

Cyberteonpc Borg-Q Gaming Desktop - AMD FX-4130 3.8GHz Quad-Core, Zotak 750ti 8GB DDR3 Memory.

When was this? Legion's minimum requirements have increased substantially.

Also, what software do you use and what resolution is your display?

How would a amd fx 8350 4.0ghz 8 core processor paired up with a rx480 4gb with 16gb of 2133mhz ddr4 memory do for a 5 man team multiboxing on wow?

The game has increasingly high VRAM requirements in Legion, and some people are reporting that 3-4GB of VRAM is cutting it close. So, I'd recommend looking at the 8GB variant of the GPU instead.

[Thomas12987]

Well that's understandable. So I put a little bit more into my budget. What about this setup? How well do you think it would do? Thank you for all your help

Intel i5-6500 3.2GHz CPU, 16gb 2133mhz DDR4, NVIDIA GTX1060 6GB

[MiRai]

Well that's understandable. So I put a little bit more into my budget. What about this setup? How well do you think it would do? Thank you for all your help

Intel i5-6500 3.2GHz CPU, 16gb 2133mhz DDR4, NVIDIA GTX1060 6GB

Here's what it ultimately comes down to... The more you can spend, the better off you're going to be. Of course, there is a point where you don't get as much performance for your money invested, but that's usually only true when it comes to high-end hardware. Yes, your latest hardware list is better than what you had before, and I imagine that it should work as long as you're willing to turn down settings quite a bit due to having to put 5 game clients on 4 cores, but, then again, I haven't had any experience with non-hyper-threaded CPUs for awhile now. Some people are running 10 game clients on 4 cores with hyper-threading, so I would assume you can do 5 game clients on 4 cores.

[Thomas12987]

Here's what it ultimately comes down to... The more you can spend, the better off you're going to be. Of course, there is a point where you don't get as much performance for your money invested, but that's usually only true when it comes to high-end hardware. Yes, your latest hardware list is better than what you had before, and I imagine that it should work as long as you're willing to turn down settings quite a bit due to having to put 5 game clients on 4 cores, but, then again, I haven't had any experience with non-hyper-threaded CPUs for awhile now. Some people are running 10 game clients on 4 cores with hyper-threading, so I would assume you can do 5 game clients on 4 cores.

Okay great, I'm not looking for ultra settings, the main will be medium high and the 4 other clients will be on the lowest setting. I'm not lookomg to go into hardcore raiding, it's just going to be questing, gold farming, and the occasional lfr.