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[Question] Dedicated Honorbuddy Sessions Rig
- Thread starter xmdsx
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I've posted this in another thread a while ago, so I'm posting here it here again to give you an idea of the hardware requirements for a high amount of wow/hb instances.
i7 2600k slightly OCed @ 4Ghz
16gb ram
ati 7850
wow limited at 30fps, dx11
with 20 wows cpu usage ~20%
The picture is a bit older, but you get the idea.
http://i.imgur.com/l2KnV9O.jpg
I personally would avoid i5s, either pick an i7 or an amd 8xxx.
GFX doesn't matter that much, you can save a lot of money there if you don't need it for personal gaming needs, just make sure it supports dx11. My 7850 is overkill, I originally bought it for d3 botting.
Another thing to consider is the noise/heat output. If you sleep in the same room as your botting rig it will get annoying really fast noise wise especially if you plan on getting a 5 fan case. I personally disconnected all my case fans and keep my pc open case. Then there's the heat which during the summer is really annoying also if you don't have AC, over the last few weeks i sometimes get 32 Celsius in my room.
Good luck.
i7 2600k slightly OCed @ 4Ghz
16gb ram
ati 7850
wow limited at 30fps, dx11
with 20 wows cpu usage ~20%
The picture is a bit older, but you get the idea.
http://i.imgur.com/l2KnV9O.jpg
I personally would avoid i5s, either pick an i7 or an amd 8xxx.
GFX doesn't matter that much, you can save a lot of money there if you don't need it for personal gaming needs, just make sure it supports dx11. My 7850 is overkill, I originally bought it for d3 botting.
Another thing to consider is the noise/heat output. If you sleep in the same room as your botting rig it will get annoying really fast noise wise especially if you plan on getting a 5 fan case. I personally disconnected all my case fans and keep my pc open case. Then there's the heat which during the summer is really annoying also if you don't have AC, over the last few weeks i sometimes get 32 Celsius in my room.
Good luck.
forget the new gpu, your 560ti is certainly good enough. Wow hardly makes use of the gpu. You generally hear that intel is better for wow, but it is much more expensive. I have very often 10 accounts running and i hardly use 30% of a geforce 570 vanilla.
@Copyleft:
i also have a 2600K, but i really don't understand how you come to 20% cpu usage with 20 wow! With 10 wow, on stock clock (3.4Ghz) i am usually between 70-90%. I don't think that your light oc could make that much a difference. I know, i have tried it. I thought it was not worth the more than 20% extra power consumption. And I also have 16GB ram of which I never use more than 10.
@Copyleft:
i also have a 2600K, but i really don't understand how you come to 20% cpu usage with 20 wow! With 10 wow, on stock clock (3.4Ghz) i am usually between 70-90%. I don't think that your light oc could make that much a difference. I know, i have tried it. I thought it was not worth the more than 20% extra power consumption. And I also have 16GB ram of which I never use more than 10.
I usually run 3 hb's on my laptop 24/7 in the background. With all 3 running and nothing else my cpu usage is around 40%, it's the ram that kills me first.
Intel Core i5-3210M
8gigs ddr3
nvidia GT 650m
The highest I've seen my CPU usage go is about 90%, and that's while those are running and playing bioshock/skyrim/CS: GO ect on high.
I really think going all out on a processor isn't really worth it. You aren't going to notice much of a difference, if at all between an i7 and an i5. I can't speak about amd, but I remember hearing somewhere that wow doesn't utilize multi-core processors (either at all or not well) could be waaaay wrong.
Btw
/console maxfps 10-15 really saves a lot of CPU power
Intel Core i5-3210M
8gigs ddr3
nvidia GT 650m
The highest I've seen my CPU usage go is about 90%, and that's while those are running and playing bioshock/skyrim/CS: GO ect on high.
I really think going all out on a processor isn't really worth it. You aren't going to notice much of a difference, if at all between an i7 and an i5. I can't speak about amd, but I remember hearing somewhere that wow doesn't utilize multi-core processors (either at all or not well) could be waaaay wrong.
Btw
/console maxfps 10-15 really saves a lot of CPU power
forget the new gpu, your 560ti is certainly good enough. Wow hardly makes use of the gpu. You generally hear that intel is better for wow, but it is much more expensive. I have very often 10 accounts running and i hardly use 30% of a geforce 570 vanilla.
@Copyleft:
i also have a 2600K, but i really don't understand how you come to 20% cpu usage with 20 wow! With 10 wow, on stock clock (3.4Ghz) i am usually between 70-90%. I don't think that your light oc could make that much a difference. I know, i have tried it. I thought it was not worth the more than 20% extra power consumption. And I also have 16GB ram of which I never use more than 10.
If your wow settings are the same as mine, you should be able to keep it under 50% without any issues. Make sure wow runs on dx11 this is very important.
The trick is a LOT of bios tweaking, turn off almost everything you don't need (google each setting/check overclocking forums even if don't overclock) like CPU states, virtualization technology. I did this along time ago but I think the biggest difference I noticed is when I played around with the CPU Load-Line Calibration.
Also something isn't right if your gf 570 is using 30% with 10 accounts running, and my ati 7850 (which is weaker) only uses 23% with 20 accounts again check your wow settings, quality and fps cap.