Hi Community! Looking For Some Help!

Hey guys! First post on the forums Looking for some advice.

I've been multiboxing Diablo III for a little over a month now and am thinking about upgrading my computer. I was hoping to reach a few of you in the forums and ask for your help on deciding what exactly is the problem and solution. So here is my computer:

Gigabyte 870A-UD3
AMD Phenom X6 1055t 2.8GHz
ASETEK 510LC 120MM WATERCOOLER
8 GB Corsair Ram
AMD Radeon 6870 GDDR5 1024MB

It's a couple years old I know lol. When running with all 4 clients my CPU Usage is peaking at like 65-70% range and my Memory Usage is running at almost 5GB. I'm still experiencing a little bit of choppiness and I'm wondering if maybe its a cooling issue or maybe its something else... I'm not really sure. Temps on the GPU usually are in the 50's. I'm not the best guy to come to with technical questions about computers so I'm not really sure what I need to be looking at to reduce the choppiness when I'm playing. It's getting kind of old and I'm not sure if there is some kinda instability going on that I may not now about that is holding me back from enjoying a smooth and fun multiboxing adventure.

Please if you have any insight or thoughts on what might be causing an unfavorable multiboxing experience, leave a post. Thanks for your time!!

[lax]

HOWTO: Tweak your framerate covers this. There is a section on identifying your bottleneck (which is literally what you're asking, "what is slowing me down?") and on hardware upgrades.

From your post, I will assume it's not your CPU or RAM being overworked, but probably your GPU or VRAM. It's possible that your 1GB of VRAM isn't enough to fully appreciate 4x Diablo 3's. Someone posted about having an issue with only 1GB of VRAM for this recently. Definitely use GPU-Z (linked in the HOWTO) to check your GPU and VRAM loads!

Thanks lax I'm gonna read through that and see what and if I can fix anything. Appreciate the help.

Okay lax here's a snapshot of my gpu performing.

http://i.imgur.com/sLDrcBF.jpg

It's using up almost all of the 1024MB of my VRAM.

[MiRai]

It's using up almost all of the 1024MB of my VRAM.

Then your choppiness is most likely caused by you running out of video RAM and having it constantly swapping with your hard drive. Video cards with 1GB of VRAM are usually fine for almost every game out on the market at the moment, however, when you multiply that by 3, 4, or 5 game clients... you can quickly fill that up. If possible, I would suggest dropping the resolution of your clients and see how that works out.

[lax]

It's using up almost all of the 1024MB of my VRAM.

Then your choppiness is most likely caused by you running out of video RAM and having it constantly swapping with your hard drive. Video cards with 1GB of VRAM are usually fine for almost every game out on the market at the moment, however, when you multiply that by 3, 4, or 5 game clients... you can quickly fill that up. If possible, I would suggest dropping the resolution of your clients and see how that works out.

Agree except that it's probably spilling into System RAM as opposed to hard drive. It's still going to be a problem.

Another way of lowering VRAM usage is to lower quality settings, particularly texture quality.

It's using up almost all of the 1024MB of my VRAM.

I would suggest dropping the resolution of your clients and see how that works out.

Okay MiRai I've dropped down my resolution on all my clients and increased my memory clock settings on my GPU and it seems to be running a little bit smoother. So I guess the only thing I'm wondering now is if I just need to upgrade my GPU buy a 400 dollar 3GB card? Think that would completely smooth it out then?

So lax are you saying that it I should purchase a SSD?

NOOB ALERT! Does that help with the memory issue?

[MiRai]

Agree except that it's probably spilling into System RAM as opposed to hard drive.

Ahhh... you are correct.

Okay so before I go out and spend money in unnecessary computer upgrades. I decided to get one of these.

http://www.passmark.com/baselines/V8/display.php?id=4817228204

Gonna assume that it's a memory issue then? Would a SSD be the remedy?