HolyCow
12-07-2011, 10:50 AM
I am always wondering what type of specs players are putting together to achieve stable multiboxing on a single machine. I personally have always been a big bang-for-buck PC builder, and my first boxing experience was on a Duron 1200 and 64mb AGP card. I used macros at that time to keep all my bots staring at the floor of the game.
Today, I feel like there are a lot more considerations. AMD has 3 distinct lines of processors out there... Phenom IIs, Phenom FX, and A-series. Intels Sandybridge and rumor mill are exciting to read about, but the price tag is clearly elevated. For the EQ player, 2005 graphics don't need 2012 processing to get the job done well.
My latest question is this: has anyone trialed the new Phenom FX octacores and compared them with either the I5-2500k (quad core) or Phenom II 1090T(hexacore) on an EQ multiboxing set up? We already have plenty of benchmark data on video encoding, 3d design software, int math calculations, etc. I haven't been able to find any data to prove how well any of these processors stack up when running multiple Emu instances without reaching a memory bottleneck.
I'm currently running a Q6600, 8gb (ddr2 800) ram, and a 9500GT 1gb on a trusty gigabyte 965P model motherboard, and it is stable like a rock. However, in moving to the underfoot client, I now able to stretch my memory farther and appear to be running into processor bottlenecks (stock 2.4ghz.)
If anyone out there has there data clean and lined up including utilization under load, I'd like to hear about your experiences.
Today, I feel like there are a lot more considerations. AMD has 3 distinct lines of processors out there... Phenom IIs, Phenom FX, and A-series. Intels Sandybridge and rumor mill are exciting to read about, but the price tag is clearly elevated. For the EQ player, 2005 graphics don't need 2012 processing to get the job done well.
My latest question is this: has anyone trialed the new Phenom FX octacores and compared them with either the I5-2500k (quad core) or Phenom II 1090T(hexacore) on an EQ multiboxing set up? We already have plenty of benchmark data on video encoding, 3d design software, int math calculations, etc. I haven't been able to find any data to prove how well any of these processors stack up when running multiple Emu instances without reaching a memory bottleneck.
I'm currently running a Q6600, 8gb (ddr2 800) ram, and a 9500GT 1gb on a trusty gigabyte 965P model motherboard, and it is stable like a rock. However, in moving to the underfoot client, I now able to stretch my memory farther and appear to be running into processor bottlenecks (stock 2.4ghz.)
If anyone out there has there data clean and lined up including utilization under load, I'd like to hear about your experiences.