Hey Furyswipes, I am currently working towards making my own 40 man multibox setup for VG (Alliance). I have some experience multiboxing and currently use ISboxer for my software solution. Though, my gaming computer is a little dated ~3-4 years old and the largest group I have currently done is a 10-man multibox. What are your recommendations for a single PC to handle a 40 man setup?
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Stop playing one toon at a time--that's just so 2004!
5-Minute Multiboxing
An informal system for multiboxing in Classic WoW and
on private 1.12 Vanilla Servers
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Watercooling would be a permanent solution for the 7700k, but I don't think the 7700K will compete with the Ryzen for what we are doing. I bought a Ryzen, but it simply wouldn't come up with my memory, black screen despite two different motherboards tried. Took it back, went with the 7700k.
I'm going to wait for the Intel 8/16 core myself. My experience with the AMD processor was so bad that I'm not going to give them my money. What kind of processor/chipset doesn't work with memory that is TOO fast? WTF is dat?
The 16 core solution will be spectactular for what we are doing. I expect 60fps in EVERY WINDOW.
For my 7700K, I will probably delid it and put the silver heat sink solution in it.
Thank you for the quick response, and great insight. You gave me some much needed reference for what I should be working towards.
I am very curious to see how well a 16 core CPU performs, by chance are you talking about the AMD Ryzen Threadripper? Also, do you think a Ryzen 7 1700X may perform better then the i7-7700k (strictly for multiboxing at such a large volume)?
I'd prefer the i7-7700k in my next build. Is yours water-cooled and do you think it would be sufficient as a permanent solution?
You need a video card at least GTX 1050 or higher. Most important is CPU and mem, though. At least 16GB of mem, and CPU should be 4Ghz or higher. For 40 boxes on one cpu, you probably aren't going to be super successful unless you are running a 7700K or better at 4.5-5Ghz.
I found my 7700K@5Ghz ran 40 boxes very well. But it was getting too hot so I turned it down and used 3 computers instead, each running at least 8 boxes or more. This is easy with HotKeyNet.
I found using frameless windows was faster. (just a command in hotkeynet)
I found using Windows 7 was faster than Windows 10.
I found using Windows Classic Colors was faster.
I am waiting to get my 16 core CPU as soon as the price comes down!
I run my wow with nearly all settings on low, though you could run your main box with all settings on high. I've experimented with that and it works fine (you will need two wow installs). I just dont care enough to use it that way though.