This setup good for 5-boxing?

[Coke]

I just made a list on newegg on a PC I might get, should it work and be fine for 5 boxing?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131225
Intel 2 Core QuadQ9450 2.66ghz
EVGA 8800gts
8g (4x2g) RAM
WD 640gig HD
750 watt power supply (Corsair)
Thanks

[Gurblash]

That will 5box just fine.

[spannah]

Looks top notch. By the way, link is to MB only, not sure if you intended that way.

Only suggestion, is that you may want to consider 2 HD, one for OS, another for WoW installs, should give you a little bit of an edge in performance. But you should have no problems with what you have.

[Coke]

Yeah I mean it to be just the MB.

But I heard a higher GHz Duel Processor is better than a quad for gaming.
Is that true for multi-boxing as well?

[Drizzit]

8g (4x2g) RAM

What OS are you going to use. Regular XP and Vista will not see the 8g. It will only see 4g (well like 3.5g it will see). In order to see the 8g you will need to get the 64 edition.

I would also say 2 harddrives, try to get the 10000 WD raptors (i think it is call raptors). Then Raid0/Strip them. That is what i did and haven't come into any problems yet.

[Drizzit]

But I heard a higher GHz Duel Processor is better than a quad for gaming.

This is what a tech guy said at work too, that is why i went duel over quad. I am 5 boxing with duel and i am having NO PROBLEMS with it so far. Also try to get the new 45 processor over the 65. 1) It runs cooler and 2) it is usually cheaper.

[spannah]

Yeah I mean it to be just the MB.

But I heard a higher GHz Duel Processor is better than a quad for gaming.
Is that true for multi-boxing as well?

Nope. I will take a stock 2.4 GHz Q6600 over a dual core 3.x GHz any day. The key here is parallel - you are running four or five of the same simultaneously, you want width (more cores) then depth (more speed). That is why when it comes to multi-boxing nothing beats 5 discreet computers.

[Coke]

Mkay. Alotta people say quad, alot say dual. Hmmm
I usually just use one WoW folder, I don't see why I would need more.
So I wouldn't need another HD.

[Coke]

Oh and I'm getting Vista 64 bit ofc.

[Drizzit]

So I wouldn't need another HD

The reason for 2 HD and Raid0/Strip them is because (If i am wrong please correct me) it takes the 2 HD and makes windows think there is 1 HD there. You might say why would i do that:
- Provides improved performance and additional storage
- This allows smaller sections of the entire chunk of data to be read off the drive in parallel, giving this type of arrangement huge bandwidth.

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RAID 0 (striping):

This will "stripe" two or more hard drives together and treat them as one large volume. For example, two 250GB drives will RAID 0 to a single 500GB volume. Ten 250GB drives would show up on the desktop as a single volume with 2.5 terabytes of storage.

Advantage: Because a little of the data written is kept on each drive, performance of the stripe increases the more disks are added to it. Writing to 10 drives is roughly 10 times faster than writing to 1 drive. This is especially handy if you need large and fast volumes.

Disadvantage: Every drive has a limited life and each disk added adds another point of failure to the RAID. Every disk in a RAID 0 is critcal - losing any one of them means the entire RAID (and all of the data) is lost.

Despite the disadvantage, RAID 0 is used by those wanting the most performance out of two or more drives. Video/Audio editors commonly use RAID 0.