10 * 3440x1440 - hardware suggestions

[CMKCot]

its not texture, geometry or effects that will kill you and the RAM and CPU usage are fine, its the frame buffer what gets you. your VGA has to pump out some ludicrous amounts of pixels. and VGAs were never designed with multiboxing as a reasonable use case.

i have a similar client setup (21:9 1440p) and 5x wows make my 1080 OCd pump about 25millon pixels a frame, 10 would be about 50m... those numbers are just unreasonable, and even a 1080ti will struggle to keep up. (4k is "only" 8m pixels) this pixel count wont magically appear on your screen, its rendered using the
VRAM as storage, my current 5 screens at 3440*1440 use up about 4gigvram as framebuffer with another 3 for assets.

It will be cheaper, and more reasonable when you think of future proofing your setup, to offload 5 of the clients to a second PC.

you could try lowering the render quality, but the impact I've seen is negligible.



when i upgraded to 1440p i noticed some REALLY poor performance, not consistent with my estimations... eventually i narrowed it down to turbo boost 3.0 being stupid, and to VideoFX. after correcting TB3.0 byt killing it at the BIOS, i changed my weakauras/vfx setup to use only one source per slave and went from 40isk fps tops up to a steady 60. maybe check that if your setup relies heavily on vfx.

[MadMilitia]

its not texture, geometry or effects that will kill you and the RAM and CPU usage are fine, its the frame buffer what gets you. your VGA has to pump out some ludicrous amounts of pixels. and VGAs were never designed with multiboxing as a reasonable use case.

i have a similar client setup (21:9 1440p) and 5x wows make my 1080 OCd pump about 25millon pixels a frame, 10 would be about 50m... those numbers are just unreasonable, and even a 1080ti will struggle to keep up. (4k is "only" 8m pixels) this pixel count wont magically appear on your screen, its rendered using the
VRAM as storage, my current 5 screens at 3440*1440 use up about 4gigvram as framebuffer with another 3 for assets.

It will be cheaper, and more reasonable when you think of future proofing your setup, to offload 5 of the clients to a second PC.

you could try lowering the render quality, but the impact I've seen is negligible.



when i upgraded to 1440p i noticed some REALLY poor performance, not consistent with my estimations... eventually i narrowed it down to turbo boost 3.0 being stupid, and to VideoFX. after correcting TB3.0 byt killing it at the BIOS, i changed my weakauras/vfx setup to use only one source per slave and went from 40isk fps tops up to a steady 60. maybe check that if your setup relies heavily on vfx.

Thanks for the advice. I just ordered a 1080TI (should be here tomorrow) for now to offset some of the load on my existing 1080. Going to see how that goes and then if I need more CPU I'll go for that.

The setup will be 3x3440x1440 (tank and healers on 1080ti for grid and click bars) 7x1920x1080 (DPS on 1080). Maybe for now that will be enough.

[WOWBOX40]

By the way.. if you fancy, a small workaround regarding not having the ability to hotswap a toon from the other pc on the monitor you play most on...is to have that spesific character on your main pc instead. Just something to keep in mind.

F.ex

Pc 1
Main toon
Toon 2
Toon 3
Toon 4
Toon 5
Toon 6 (the main from pc nr 2)
Toon 7 (the main from pc nr 3)

Pc nr 2
Toon 2
Toon 3
Toon 4
Toon 5

Pc nr 3
Toon 2
Toon 3
Toon 4
Toon 5


This way you can lead whenever you want from pc 1. You will need to have the extra resources to play 2 more accounts on your main pc though, in this random example.

[WOWBOX40]

Well... the "one pc setup to rule them all" dream of running the upcoming 32 core amd cpu, 128 gb+ of ram etc, and a 32 gb gfx card took a small dive... lets just say its cheaper to run multiple pcs.

Check out what this shop wants for the 32 gb gfx card

https://www.komplett.no/product/1018...hnical-details

(14k us dollars)