Quad Core Setups

[Gigatron]

Today I will be building a new machine, now that quad cores are down to $300. 2 gigs memory and a geforce 8800GTS.

Right now I am 3 boxing on a dual core amd x2, 2 gigs memory and an ati x800 pro. Frame rates are good, but can bog down at times when lots of action on the screen.

I will attempt to see how it runs with 5 to see how viable this could be.

Anyone on here using a quad core setup?

[Bradster]

Today I will be building a new machine, now that quad cores are down to $300. 2 gigs memory and a geforce 8800GTS.

Right now I am 3 boxing on a dual core amd x2, 2 gigs memory and an ati x800 pro. Frame rates are good, but can bog down at times when lots of action on the screen.

I will attempt to see how it runs with 5 to see how viable this could be.

Anyone on here using a quad core setup?

Nice system! I have core 2 system, well had. In a month I might get it back! how I'd love a quad core.

So its $300 for the mother board then? Is cooling an issue to watch for with so many CPU's in a single case? Just wondering.

[Gigatron]

Nice system! I have core 2 system, well had. In a month I might get it back! how I'd love a quad core.

So its $300 for the mother board then? Is cooling an issue to watch for with so many CPU's in a single case? Just wondering.

I don't think I'll need extra cooling, it's just one cpu with 4 cores. I'll be grabbing an Asus P5N32-E motherboard, it's about $150. I was debating whether or not to go SLI, but I don't think it will help much and may cause problems.

[Bradster]

Nice system! I have core 2 system, well had. In a month I might get it back! how I'd love a quad core.

So its $300 for the mother board then? Is cooling an issue to watch for with so many CPU's in a single case? Just wondering.

I don't think I'll need extra cooling, it's just one cpu with 4 cores. I'll be grabbing an Asus P5N32-E motherboard, it's about $150. I was debating whether or not to go SLI, but I don't think it will help much and may cause problems.

Oh ok, when I heard quad I was thinking 4 cpus hehe.

[Gigatron]

Oh ok, when I heard quad I was thinking 4 cpus hehe.

Imagine that! Quad, Quad cores ftw! :lol:

[Bena]

fyi.. wow doesn't support sli and will run slower with it I found this out when I picked up my second gf8800gtx.. so far I have to say the whole SLI is a disappointment. I've only tried cs:source, hlf2 and wow but none of them showed any significant performance increase.

The only good thing is that I can run 3 monitors; thought the performance goes down if the window is on non primary screen. With the price cuts I've been also looking at the quads.. thinking of getting the q6700. Thought I'm 5boxing on a dual core; 4 minimized windows and main maxed and my cpu doesn't go above 50 so I might wait with the purchase.

The one thing that gave my a boost was upping my memory to 4gigs. yeah winxp uses only 3 (2.75 reported anyway) but it smoothed out laggines when I was in IF/SW or any other populated area. Before things would start chugging a bit but now they're smooth.

[Gigatron]

fyi.. wow doesn't support sli and will run slower with it I found this out when I picked up my second gf8800gtx.. so far I have to say the whole SLI is a disappointment. I've only tried cs:source, hlf2 and wow but none of them showed any significant performance increase.

The only good thing is that I can run 3 monitors; thought the performance goes down if the window is on non primary screen. With the price cuts I've been also looking at the quads.. thinking of getting the q6700. Thought I'm 5boxing on a dual core; 4 minimized windows and main maxed and my cpu doesn't go above 50 so I might wait with the purchase.

The one thing that gave my a boost was upping my memory to 4gigs. yeah winxp uses only 3 (2.75 reported anyway) but it smoothed out laggines when I was in IF/SW or any other populated area. Before things would start chugging a bit but now they're smooth.

Ya, I decided against SLI, its seems like you only benefit if your running at insane resolutions with 16x aa. Plus lots of driver bugs, not worth the trouble. I may go for 4 gigs since memory is dirt cheap.

[Gigatron]

Alright, I got my new system up and running. Pretty amazing, I can 5 box no prob with this setup. It's very smooth and responsive with 5 characters, no system bogging down even when running around Org and I'm on one of the most populated servers as well, Zul'jin.

I was originally 3 boxing priest and 2 locks, now I am adding 2 mages to the mix. So I'll be 2 boxing the mages for awhile until they catch up to the rest. :lol:

[Xzin]

Are you running 5 on 1 computer?

[Gigatron]

Are you running 5 on 1 computer?

Yup, I know sounds crazy. I didn't think it would be possible or playable, but so far it looks like this may be viable. Last night I was running around org and fps was steady 60, all characters very responsive. I haven't done any pvp testing yet since my mages are still level 2. :lol: I'll let you guys know how that goes.

This of course is everything all on lowest video settings and only my main character window full screen and the rest minimized. But switching between the windows was instantaneous.