Sun Jul 07, 2013 10:13 am
Multiboxing Workstation with Xeons 20+ clients
Hello everone
Currently i multibox 10 characters but i would like to upgrade to a new pc and start multiboxing +20 accounts at once.
There's a budget of € 5k / $ 6400 which will have to be spent on 2 CPU's, motherboard, ram, 1 more GPU, PSU and case.
I've already got a gtx680 4Gb , a good SSD and 7200rpm sata disk laying around.
The game will be loaded in a ramdrive so very fast diskdrives/ssds are not needed.
I was thinking about buying the following parts :
CPU's
2x Intel Xeon E5-2687W Boxed 8core @ 3.1Ghz
http://tweakers.net/pricewatch/31288...87w-boxed.html
Motherboard
X9DAi made by supermicro, has double onboard LAN, audio and PCI-E 3.0 x16 slots
http://www.supermicro.com/products/m...C600/X9DAi.cfm
Ram
KVR16R11D4K4/64
64GB (16GB 2G x 72-Bit x 4 pcs.) PC3-12800
CL11 Registered w/Parity 240-Pin DIMM Kit
http://www.kingston.com/dataSheets/KVR16R11D4K4_64.pdf
GPU i've already got one of these, i'll buy another
GTX680 4GbDDR5
http://tweakers.net/pricewatch/325369/a ... -4gd5.html
PSU
A good quality 1200 watt psu
Extended ATX case en fans.
Now it's all about the PCI-E slots :
* Slot 1, 2 en 3 are being controlled by CPU1
* Slot 4, 5 en 6are being controlled by CPU 2
* The big plus here is that both PCI-E slots are real x16 3.0 slots.
A GPU1 will be plugged in slot 2 and the second GPU2 will be plugged in slot 5, that way both CPU's have a GPU they can take care of.
I was thinking about not using SLI so that each CPU which is connected to a GPU can purely concentrate on that one?
I would like to hear your thoughts on this.
Also, will insta window swap still work if i want to swap from client 4 on CPU1/GPU1 to client 18 on CPU2/GPU2?
Is it possible to mousebroadcast with inner space over two different GPU/CPU at the same time, what other functionality might i lose in isboxer when using this setup?
Am i creating any bottlenecks?
I know it's a ton of questions but i would love to hear other people's experiences.
Stukkie
Currently i multibox 10 characters but i would like to upgrade to a new pc and start multiboxing +20 accounts at once.
There's a budget of € 5k / $ 6400 which will have to be spent on 2 CPU's, motherboard, ram, 1 more GPU, PSU and case.
I've already got a gtx680 4Gb , a good SSD and 7200rpm sata disk laying around.
The game will be loaded in a ramdrive so very fast diskdrives/ssds are not needed.
I was thinking about buying the following parts :
CPU's
2x Intel Xeon E5-2687W Boxed 8core @ 3.1Ghz
http://tweakers.net/pricewatch/31288...87w-boxed.html
Motherboard
X9DAi made by supermicro, has double onboard LAN, audio and PCI-E 3.0 x16 slots
http://www.supermicro.com/products/m...C600/X9DAi.cfm
Ram
KVR16R11D4K4/64
64GB (16GB 2G x 72-Bit x 4 pcs.) PC3-12800
CL11 Registered w/Parity 240-Pin DIMM Kit
http://www.kingston.com/dataSheets/KVR16R11D4K4_64.pdf
GPU i've already got one of these, i'll buy another
GTX680 4GbDDR5
http://tweakers.net/pricewatch/325369/a ... -4gd5.html
PSU
A good quality 1200 watt psu
Extended ATX case en fans.
Now it's all about the PCI-E slots :
* Slot 1, 2 en 3 are being controlled by CPU1
* Slot 4, 5 en 6are being controlled by CPU 2
* The big plus here is that both PCI-E slots are real x16 3.0 slots.
A GPU1 will be plugged in slot 2 and the second GPU2 will be plugged in slot 5, that way both CPU's have a GPU they can take care of.
I was thinking about not using SLI so that each CPU which is connected to a GPU can purely concentrate on that one?
I would like to hear your thoughts on this.
Also, will insta window swap still work if i want to swap from client 4 on CPU1/GPU1 to client 18 on CPU2/GPU2?
Is it possible to mousebroadcast with inner space over two different GPU/CPU at the same time, what other functionality might i lose in isboxer when using this setup?
Am i creating any bottlenecks?
I know it's a ton of questions but i would love to hear other people's experiences.
Stukkie
