Question about my new laptop

[Szajlent]

Hey guys!

I've bought a laptop recently to bot. The stats are:
i5 3210M (2500)
8gb DDR3 (1333)
2gb NVidia GF GT635M

I'm planning to run 6 bot on this system, the op system is Win7 x64 Ultimate, WoW set to min graph settings (normal maxfps).
Could this handle 6 bots?

I'm also planning to buy a new one. Do you think it can run 12 bots?
i7 3520M (2900)
16gb DDR3 (1333)
2gb NVidia GF GT635M

Should I get SSD for the bots, or a HDD is just fine?

Thx guys (and girls)

 

[hijlee]

Why do you buy laptops for botting? I am pretty sure you could build a better botting PC with less money that you are going to spend on laptops.

 

[no1knowsy]

SSD is necessary for lots of bots, I'd even have one for the 6.

I'm not sure if that will run them or not. I haven't done stress-tests on my laptop but it's a HP Pavilion dv7-6195us
I ran 3 bots and still had room to do programming and other stuff with them up (they weren't on lowest settings, ie. They weren't on lowest resolution)

 

[Szajlent]

Why do you buy laptops for botting? I am pretty sure you could build a better botting PC with less money that you are going to spend on laptops.

just think...
laptop is small, silent and im already paying 8€/month/bot to blizz, dont want to pay too much for the power
and the first laptop was 550€, the second is 800€...so im sure i could buy a decent desktop for 1300+ but i travel a lot so laptop is my only option for botting..

SSD is necessary for lots of bots, I'd even have one for the 6.

I'm not sure if that will run them or not. I haven't done stress-tests on my laptop but it's a HP Pavilion dv7-6195us
I ran 3 bots and still had room to do programming and other stuff with them up (they weren't on lowest settings, ie. They weren't on lowest resolution)

the first laptop (i5) is running 3 bots right now
~40% memory and 25-30% cpu usage

and im sure you could run 6 bots on your pc, but not sure about the HDD usage

 

[no1knowsy]

just think...
laptop is small, silent and im already paying 8€/month/bot to blizz, dont want to pay too much for the power
and the first laptop was 550€, the second is 800€...so im sure i could buy a decent desktop for 1300+ but i travel a lot so laptop is my only option for botting..



the first laptop (i5) is running 3 bots right now
~40% memory and 25-30% cpu usage

and im sure you could run 6 bots on your pc, but not sure about the HDD usage

On my laptop the HDD is the slowest component, but I don't have room for an SSD or I would have already put one it.
I may just gut it out and put it all in my Desktop so I can add.

 

[Teveel]

Laptops can be quite efficient for botting machines as they have low power draw, depends on how much electricity costs you in the area you live in though I guess.
I'm sure mathmatical types can work out an equation to break down power cost/capital investment to show efficiency on what machine you buy to do botting with.

 

[lathrodectus]

Hey guys!

I've bought a laptop recently to bot. The stats are:
i5 3210M (2500)
8gb DDR3 (1333)
2gb NVidia GF GT635M

I'm planning to run 6 bot on this system, the op system is Win7 x64 Ultimate, WoW set to min graph settings (normal maxfps).
Could this handle 6 bots?

I'm also planning to buy a new one. Do you think it can run 12 bots?
i7 3520M (2900)
16gb DDR3 (1333)
2gb NVidia GF GT635M

Should I get SSD for the bots, or a HDD is just fine?

Thx guys (and girls)

Yes and yes, first one should run 6, second 12 bots without issues.
However, you are wrong about settings/max fps.
You should restrict your bots to a lower fps (20 is quite nice) or your laptop is gonna overheat trying to render as much frames as possible resulting in a full CPU load.
Framerate is the most CPU intensive setting, not sure but maybe SSAO and shadows too. Regardless all settings should be as low as possible regarding performance/heating issues with a laptop.

Also I'd like to clear a common mistake here, wow resolution setting doesn't mean anything at windowed modes. Your wow window will render at the viewframe resolution regardless of the setting.
So making WoW viewframe as small as possible helps, specially on multibot occasions, setting to a lower resolution does not.
You can test it with a single client, set to lowest resolution and make it fullscreen (windowed mode/windowed fullscreen), it will be crystal clear aka rendered at your desktop resolution.
Swith to fullscreen mode, you'll see it in lower resolution stretched to your fullscreen.

lathrodectus

 

[Szajlent]

i know about window/full

thx for the rest pf the info