Multiboxing Rig

09/15/2011 21:57 Deggers#1
I have a sexy alienware laptop that is capable of either running 1 instance @1080 maxed or 4 instances on the minimums but im worried about cooking it over long use.

I want to build myself a cheapish desktop to do the hard work (botting) for me so i can just run my main on the laptop.

Looking to run 3-4 instances of the game.

My question to other multiboxers out there. What spec do you use? Im not looking for an unholy god of a pc, just something that will run them without getting stuck in lag city.
09/16/2011 00:16 steve782#2
set ur max budget first and go from there
09/16/2011 01:21 Deggers#3
Budget is around 600-700 £
09/16/2011 02:12 steve782#4
ur going to want to invest as much as you can of that in a good video card and CPU.
If you plan on building it yourself, you should use newegg.com and read the extensive reviews posted by the consumers. even if you don't plan on building it yourself, go to newegg and look @ the cpus and video cards and sort by best rating and do some reading to determine whats the best bang for your buck - this will give you a sense of what you want. there are about 8-9 pieces of hardware you need to build your own: cpu, video card, motherboard, ram, hard drive, case, power supply, cd drive - try to ballpark the cost of each piece on newegg. with your budget, you should be able to build a reasonably good gaming rig. I also strongly suggest you buy a power supply larger than what you will need (750W should be plenty for a rig with a single video card + lots of room to upgrade)
09/17/2011 21:34 pinki104#5
doesent ffxiv suck for multiboxing ? i multibox 10 acc's on wow but thats only because the macros help alot ect
09/17/2011 22:50 Cooleko#6
I multi-box 3 accounts with ease on i7 930, evga nvidia 560 TI.
09/18/2011 11:41 pinki104#7
are there target assisting macros on ffxiv then ? otherwise it would be abit hard i think
09/19/2011 16:00 fgm1988#8
Pretty sure he's craft botting... And if not, there are also DoW/DoM grind bots out there also.
09/19/2011 16:22 sl295#9
i craft bot 2 accounts with a Q6600 @ stock and EVGA 570 GTX SC
09/19/2011 16:25 Cooleko#10
fgm is correct, I dont ~play~ by hand all three accounts, but rather supervise their automated progression. I just wanted to give the OP and idea of specifically what cheaper hardware can meet his requirements.
09/28/2011 06:35 realDragon#11
just buy any simple dekstop.. as long as u multibox minimized its np.. got running 10accs while playing one maxed.. aslong as i minimize the others it works like a charm..
10/01/2011 20:12 Justinp14#12
I'm curious how people are Multiboxing. I start to R0 on the character in the background when I do it