Quote Originally Posted by 'Greythan',index.php?page=Thread&postID=58345#post 58345
Yeah, two monitors would be awesome, but my wife would kill me for how it would make our office look.

Any other thoughts on best layout with my limited viewing space? Performance has been just fine so far with an 8800GTS, 5600 dual core AMD and only 2 gigs of RAM. Going to upgrade RAM another stick (using XP, so should I consider a fourth stick?).

Too much fun so far. Best I ever did in EQ1 was triple boxing and that took three machines.
I am able to run 5 WoW clients on my laptop and it works very well, use optimizer to throttle the background FPS on your other boxes to about 10, and active to 25 or so. You shouldn't really need to look at them at all. I have one big window for my leader and just make smaller windows for the other 4, the corners overlap by one 'square' in optimizer so that the only blank monitor space is in the bottom right corner of the desktop (widescreen).

No, don't add another stick of RAM. Because windows XP is (crappy) 32 bit architecture it cannot handle more than about 3.2 gigs of RAM and it will only do that if you COMPLETELY disable page filing/virtual memory. You'll need to go to XP-64 (CPU upgrade if you don't have 64b cpu) or Vista-32. The most you will get without disabling the page filing/virtual memory is like 2.8 gigs or something stupid like that. My laptop has 2gb of ram and runs Vista-64 with a medium end graphics card (GeForce Go 7800 I think?)