How good of a computer do you need to run 5 accounts?

[OstensibleTree]

I'm thinking about buying a dedicated rig for botting down the line. For all those with experience, how decent does it have to be in order to run 5 accounts, lowest settings etc

Would a 500 series Nvidia card work?

 

[nordrassil]

5 wow windows might sound like a lot, but it really isn't, especially not when you put everything on low, and limit the background fps to like 25-30.

 

[Bhikkus]

Get a SSD(128gb cost about 70 euro @amazon). 8gb ram are enough! With 5 bots its not a big deal. Set wow-settings below minimum! 15 Frames as maximum for every bot. Deactivate any useless addon.

Spoiler

copy pasted from a textfile on my pc, dont remember who give me this hint(i guess someone @ownedcore):

/console gxcolorbits 16
/console gxdepthbits 16
/console skycloudlod 0
/console particledensity 0.3
/console lod 0
/console fullalpha 0
/console doodadanim 0
/console mapshadows 0
/console loddist 50
/console smallcull 2
/console maxlights 0
/console specular 0
/console pixelshader 0
/console detaildensity 1
/console unitdrawdist 20
/console waterlod 0
/console basemip 1
/console shadowlevel 1
/console alphalevel 1
/console anisotropic 16
/console textureloddist 80
/console light 0
/console fog 0
/console bitdepth 16
/console showwater 0
/console maxlod 0
/console watermaxlod 0
/console waterwaves 0
/console waterspecular 0
/console waterripples 0
/console waterparticulates 0
/console showshadow 0
/console skyclouddensity 0
/console skysunglare 0
/console skyshow 0

and then you type
/console gxrestart
to restart your graphic engine.

or you can put the following in your config.wtf folder

SET gxcolorbits "16"
SET gxdepthbits "16"
SET skycloudlod "0"
SET particledensity "0.3"
SET lod "0"
SET fullalpha "0"
SET doodadanim "0"
SET mapshadows "0"
SET loddist "50"
SET smallcull "2"
SET maxlights "0"
SET specular "0"
SET pixelshader "0"
SET detaildensity "1"
SET unitdrawdist "20"
SET waterlod "0"
SET basemip "1"
SET shadowlevel "1"
SET alphalevel "1"
SET anisotropic "16"
SET textureloddist "80"
SET light "0"
SET fog "0"
SET bitdepth "16"
SET showwater "0"
SET maxlod "0"
SET watermaxlod "0"
SET waterwaves "0"
SET waterspecular "0"
SET waterripples "0"
SET waterparticulates "0"
SET showshadow "0"
SET skyclouddensity "0"
SET skysunglare "0"
SET skyshow "0"

=>save it as a macro(or 1-3 makros)

 

[OstensibleTree]

So you can pretty much run 10-15 accounts on one medicore computer no problem by the sounds of it.

Thanks for the info.

 

[nimblefingers]

I was running 3 comfortably on an average laptop but trying to push any more and I found I had heating issues (with everything on the lowest settings) so I ended up using my gaming machine (i7 around the 3gbish mark, 32Gb ram of which wow and hb use 6-6.5gb, Nvidia late 600 series 2gb card with another 2gb shared) and now my computer doesn't even sweat with 5 running on ultra settings with addons running with no tweaking to lower resource usage at all (each window reports generally over 100fps) and over two monitors I can monitor everything comfortably while playing my main on my laptop

Not saying you should go out and buy a decent rig, just if you have a vaguely terrible gaming machine now you may consider using that for the botting and a low end cheapie for your actual gaming.

 

[Angelus]

So you can pretty much run 10-15 accounts on one medicore computer no problem by the sounds of it.

Thanks for the info.

Depends on what kind of farming you are going to do.

Cpu -> Ram -> Gpu