This is a great thread! Main tanks and multi-boxing hardware. Shawinnnngg!!

Quote Originally Posted by Jafula',index.php?page=Thread&postID=72736#post727 36]Hello,

I run 5 instances of wow on my machine.

I like this because I can use one keyboard and mouse and don't need to worry about key sync software working over the network.

I have my main on one monitor (1680x1050) and my 4 alts on another monitor (1280x1024) - each takes up a quarter of the screen (640x512). This setup allows me to mouse over (not click into) an alt wow window and [url='http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=6898
press a key to loot[/url] , mine, etc, without losing focus off my main's window. I use hot key net to sync keys.

Machine Specs: Intel Q6600 Quad Core, 8GB Ram (4GB Ram works fine), 2 x Geforce8800GT 512MB, DFI LanParty X38-T2R X38 Mobo, 500GB WD HDD, Win Vista 64bit.

Note: I did have an Asus Striker II Extreme 790i (Nvidia) mobo for SLI, but the chipset (790i) seems to have a lot of issues and I could not get my system stable at stock speeds. So unless you really, really want SLI, I suggest you get an X38 or X48 chipset (I think even X48 is too new and unstable). At least with X38 you can use crossfire.

I have read some posts that say that you can use one high end GFX card for 5 wows; but I have not tried this myself.

I have 2 wows CPU affinity set to cores 0 and 1 and the other 3 wows CPU affinity set to cores 2 and 3.

The alts are all frame-limited in wow to 15fps background and 30fps foreground. All the GFX settings are set to low.

My main has all GFX settings on high and I get an average of 50fps.

I love it and it works very well for me. I hope this helps you.

Jafula.
Awesome info. This is exactly what I plan to do. But im curious: everyone seems to be using keyclone; is there a particular reason you are using "hotkeynet"? Also was it tough to setup your multiple windows that allow you to just mouseover and click to loot? Havent done this yet as I dont have my new PC yet and cant run multi-wows on my old-ass piece.