Motherboard - EVGA Classified SR-2 270-WS-W555-A2 LGA 1366 Intel 5520 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HPTX Intel Motherboard CPU- Intel Core i7-975 Extreme Edition Bloomfield 3.33GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor BX80601975 Memory- OCZ Platinum 48GB (12 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model OCZ3P1333C9LV24GS Graphics- 2x HIS H695F2G2M Radeon HD 6950 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card with Eyefinity Cooling System - Water Cooled. along with 160g ssd and case 2tb hard drive and burner
How many? well, if you set all settings to lowest, and make wow windowed, and rezise it as small as it can get, i think you can fill your computer screen a couple of thousand times.
Stay away from EVGA motherboards lol, go with something like Gigabyte or Asus, somthing that wont die in a month
make sure you pick up some hdd coolers, and maybe extra 80-120mm fans (10 for .99 each special for 80mm from newegg -- 1.99 for singles) hdd coolers are 6-20$ each I also picked up some pci coolers, they rock
stupid expensive. get 4 pcs for 1,000 each (i7 920, 8-12gb ram, radeon 5870 / 5970) .. You will run around 3x more WoWs. Pack each with a 60gb SSD, you wont have cooling problems.
i think this is a ridiculous system unless you want to run 100 bots on it XD(else the power consumption might just be more then you earn from selling gold XD)a standard session of wow at the lowest setting takes round 300-500mb ram when minimized. processor and graphics card dont take up too much in that state either I myself run on a system with: core2duo 2.66 4gb ram Geforce 9400gt this system can run about 12-14 bots at a time, if all minimized,and the components can be picked up for around 200-300 euros total.If you need more you could get a second one to get a double amount of bots,and prob still lower overal power consumption. Buying top of the bill equipment just for running this 6 year old game seems a little over the top for me, but good luck on your rig ^^
The problem is. it will bottleneck some part of the system at some point, especially with Windows managing the resources. I wouldn't give it more than 15 - 20 bots, regardless of the specs. I may be wrong, but even so, it seems a lot smarted to build many cheap systems, than to build 1 great one. On a 500-1000$ PC, you can do 15-20 bots just as well. Get 4-8 of these PCs, and you can increase productivity.
Everyone is not thinking through this situation. With 4 Pcs instead of one comes 4 new screens and you need the space to fit 4 big ugly Pcs. Time consuming why not do it all on one. As for power consumption 4 PCs will use far more than a single but a lot more powerful one. I doubt there is need for 48GB of ram, i must admit that is flipping insane. If you want to know how many bots it can run i would say about 50. You have enough ram easily i just don't know about the CPU. Maybe wait for sandy beach?
Right lets clear up some of the BS people are spreading in this thread. CPU: If you want a bot system go for Intel. The i7 975 is overkill, instead you should look at the new Sandy Bridge range, the 2600K is reasonably priced, has hyper threading and overclocks like a beast when you need it. Do NOT waste your time umming and ahhing over the AMD's as they simply do not compare, not even their 6 core range touches the 2nd generation i7's. Mobo: EVGA currently hold the records for best over clocking board across multiple categories, granted it is not the same motherboard as listed by Whatcha413 but it is however part of the exact same family of boards. Once again I suggest you look for the 1155 P67 boards once a few of the more hardcore boards have been released, keep your eyes peeled for the ASUS ROG, the top spec Gigabyte boards and of course ANYTHING by EVGA. Graphics: Going dual ATI is a bit of a waste, if you are serious about spending money on a good product either pick up a single GTX 580 or go ahead and grab 2x GTX 570's. Memory: 48GB is massively overkill, especially when its crappy OCZ memory. Be sensible and grab 12GB of Mushkin RAM once the Sandy Bridge orientated stuff is released. The good thing with Mushkin is that the choice is down to what colours you like and it will fit underneath the biggest and baddest air CPU coolers. Primary HDD: A lovely Mushkin Callisto Deluxe SSD or an Intel based one would be superb, just make sure they are using Sandforce and some retailers are still shipping out the shitty old ones. Secondary HDD: 2TB is massive, more than most people ever need as storage. What ever you decide I strongly suggest something from the Western Digital Caviar Black 64MB Cache range as these will run at the new SATA3 speeds. Cooling: This is a big debate which is really hard to assist with, mainly because it depends on the temperatures of where you live, uptimes, overclocks and of course how dusty your setup gets. Most people will get away with a nice big fat Noctua NH-D14 in a NZXT Phantom case, switching the default fans for some Noctua ones.
it could run quite a few, but the gpu will be the bottleneck, especially since wow doesnt use multi gpu. i would get 2 or 3 pc's with a kvm switch (mouse keyboard and monitor) and use it like that. get 4 pc's worth around 1K$ and you'll be far better off than running that setup. my 0.002$
I would never buy a(n) EVGA motherboard regardless of the overclock, to me its can it run stock for 10 years more than can it OC more for 20 minutes. IMO asus makes the best mobo's. Hence only my opinion.
