Would a server computer work for botting?

[hgoutyt]

Would using a server as a pc work for botting? I ask this because servers can hold multiple cpus a an extensive number of ram chips. So as long as your not trying to play at high end graphics or anything else is it good? What are the downsides to it?

 

[Teveel]

Pretty sure there is a guy on these forums who for sure is running a server for wow and there is a thread about his setup, going to try and find it.

 

[hgoutyt]

oh thanks ill try looking as well

 

[bloodmarks]

while 8 CPU 240 core (8*15*2 for HT) XEON CPU will run much more bots than I7 cost is astronomical, its easier and cheaper getting several cheap PCs than one huge server

i would say up to 2 CPU 6 cores per CPU (12 with HT) xeon costs is SANE (still more expensive than I7 or single CPU XEON system per GFLOPS but sane as in you don't have to sell car to get it)

on the other hand Xeon E3-1275 v3 costs about the same as I7 (a little bit more but you do get ECC ram support and CPU that is made to work 24/7/365) so i could see myself paying small premium for ability to use ECC ram and get a little more reliable hardware if only ECC ram was not so bloody expensive

 

[CodenameG]

a lot of wow depends on your graphics cards, so while a xeon is great, that might be your bottleneck not your cpu.

 

[hgoutyt]

So as far as botting goes its cheaper per bot to just buy a few lower grade computers?

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[bloodmarks]

a lot of wow depends on your graphics cards, so while a xeon is great, that might be your bottleneck not your cpu.

well integrated GPU on Haswell class/Steamroller class hardware is perfectly capable of running several bots,
WOW in low quality mode is not GPU intensive (20FPS limit + reduced details and window size on minimum),
but actually i meant XEON CPU + normal GPU you don't lose ability to use dedicated GPU just because you use server class hardware (XEON or Opteron CPU)

 

[bloodmarks]

So as far as botting goes its cheaper per bot to just buy a few lower grade computers?

exactly, what server hardware provides is increased reliability but best price/performance was always in mainstream market
and since botting scales perfectly across multiple PCs since bots don't need to communicate with each other several networked I7 PCs will provide much more bots/dollar spent

 

[xwozone]

I have a xeon that i run 10 wow's on, 9 bots. I have a 1 gig video card in it. it works ok.

 

[whatcha413]

my i7 can run 20+ easy 32gig ram plus SSD card

 

[hgoutyt]

well thanks everyone. Im currently only running 5 bots at 20-30% cpu so i can run at least 15 on this comp probably more but i was curious for the future if i end up wanting more. appreciate all the feedback.