Hey, I'm building a cheap botting pc to run 5 copies of wow (possibly more in the future), I've bought a cheap old pc from ebay with a P4 3Ghz cpu, I plan on upgrading the ram to about 2 gigs and buying a new video card (PCI-e). What do you guys think is an appropriate video card? I was thinking a HD 4350 would do, what do you guys think? Thanks.
Only 2GB Ram? That's kinda low since you're planning to run multiple instances of WoW. Go for 4GB atleast. AMD/ATI 4xxx-series might do the trick if you're on a really tight budget. Imo I would go for one of the cheaper cards in the 5xxx-series or a cheap Nvidia GTX 460.
The HD5670 performs alot better and isn't that expensive, well, it costs a few bucks to double, but yeah, generally it's not a expensive card in comparison how it performs.
I hope you're not seriously going to use the P4 cpu ._. Get at least a core2duo. If you're going to add more accounts later on, then get a quad core! And yea... putting a "good" botting rig together might cost ya a little more than you thought =p
buy a Club3d HD5550 with 64bit interface pay 40-50 bucks and run up to 10 wows on there check my building a botting pc thread.. p4 is ass for multiple botting
I would go AMD and then overclock, simply because it's cheaper and really not that much difference. Unless you buy a intel with hyperthreading. Dual: AMD Phenom II X2 560 3.3GHz Black Edition Quad: AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4GHz Black Edition Although Intel has a slight edge if you for example work with alot of video effects, rendering and such.
you can go w/ the cheap video card (4350), but u gotta have 4GB+ ram or you're going to have major issues
well I ran 12 accts on a duo core 2.0 amd just fine (70% cpu) -- granted most were GB and not HB, as HB uses a lot more cpu power imo
wow kickass nice.. my standard pc is x2 5600+ and 2GB ram and barely can handle 3-4 My botting pc is i5 760, 4GB ram and a ATI HD 5550 and handles 6 without passing 45% cpu load
A cheap AMD quad core is like $100 or something and worth every penny. I upgraded from a core2duo/2gb ram to quad core/8gb and I have no idea how many bots I could run but more than I've tried while playing other games at the same time. core2duo/2gb would cap out at 4, but 2 were HB. granted that was mostly a ram issue, but CPU usage was uncomfortably high.
Ok guys I've read your suggestions and I think ill just trash the little PC I've got in favor of something with more grunt. Heres what I've got my eye on: Mobo - ASUS P5QPL-VM (socket 775) CPU - Intel Pentium E6500 2.93Ghz RAM - 4GB of DDR2 800 Video Card - Unsure, probably a HD 4650/70 or something Sound good?
Kinda a bit off-topic, but I would love to see how many BoTs my PC can run XD ------------------ System Information ------------------ Time of this report: 11/18/2010, 02:03:46 Machine name: Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_gdr.100618-1621) Language: English (Regional Setting: English) System Manufacturer: System manufacturer System Model: System Product Name BIOS: BIOS Date: 05/03/10 11:40:30 Ver: 08.00.15 Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1090T Processor (6 CPUs), ~3.2GHz Memory: 6144MB RAM Available OS Memory: 6142MB RAM Page File: 3689MB used, 8593MB available Windows Dir: C:\Windows DirectX Version: DirectX 11 DX Setup Parameters: Not found User DPI Setting: Using System DPI System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent) DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled DxDiag Version: 6.01.7600.16385 32bit Unicode --------------- Display Devices --------------- Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Manufacturer: NVIDIA Chip type: GeForce GTX 480 DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_06C0&SUBSYS_075F10DE&REV_A3 Display Memory: 4063 MB Dedicated Memory: 1503 MB Shared Memory: 2559 MB Current Mode: 1680 x 1050 (32 bit) (59Hz) Monitor Name: Generic PnP Monitor Monitor Model: Acer AL2216W Monitor Id: ACRAD74 Native Mode: 1680 x 1050(p) (59.954Hz)Current Mode: 1366 x 768 (32 bit) (60Hz) Monitor Name: Generic PnP Monitor Monitor Model: VW32L HDTV20A Monitor Id: VIZ0027 Native Mode: 1366 x 768(p) (59.815Hz) Output Type: HD15
My botting computer has an Intel core duo E5200 processor, 4gigs of ram (kingston 800mhz) in dual chan configuration, win 7 pro 64bit, an ATI HD 3850 1gb ram and the motherboards is a FoxConn g33m02 pulled out from a Dell Vostro 400 (very crappy imo). I manage to run 5 GB bots and 1 hb bot with about 80% cpu use (HB requires more cpu time). I always use this computer remotely, through Tightvnc or Logmein (both require some cpu time aswell). I bought the CPU+cooler, motherboard, video card, power supply and 2 gigs of ram (I added some more after a few weeks) for 170€ (ofcourse they all were used) about 2 months ago. Compared to market prices in Italy, it was a fair good price. If you want to save money just buy an used computer. DON'T save on motherboard and power supply, here's my story: After some weeks a capacitor into the power supply just exploded (power supply is crappy), and i had to replace it, and the fan was making a lot of noise and i had to replace it aswell. I wanted to add some ram,so i took two no-brand ram with elpida chips, but my (crappy) motherboard didn't like them, so I had to send them back and get a better brand (it costed me time, money and a lot of swears). PS: I use this computer just to bot!
