Multiboxing and Multicores

[mind]

Hello, I'm going to start with multibox. I'm setting up a system and I just have one doubt.

Should I be using Dual Core or Quad Core?

Phenom II 555 X2
or
Athlon 620 X4

They are both the same price. When playing other games the dual core beats de quadcore due to higher frequency but what about multiboxing(Since you can pretty much have 1 process running on each core) ?

[EaTCarbS]

For multiboxing a Quad Core is more preferable.

[ebony]

Originally Posted by EaTCarbS

For multiboxing a Quad Core is more preferable.

i vote this i just moved to a low end Quad Core from dualcore and its not a small change its very big not olny can i go peek times in dala and SW i do not lag and do more dps its so nice the chars now anit like miles behind me like before so if your running 5+ chars go Quad Core!

[Tim]

Yup I did a lot of testing between 2/4 core and I think this is the preferred route to go on quad core:

2x Cores for your main (Core 0 and Core 1)
1x Core for game 2 and 3 (Core 2)
1x Core for game 4 and 5 (Core 3)


So basically your main is getting 4x the resources as a single alt game, and when I would game in WoW 5box style on my old quad core, this seemed to work the best for me.