And you thought adding a
trio of displays to your mobile gaming rig was hardcore. To be frank, calling this setup "extravagant" could be the understatement of the month (or year), but it's a tad hard to articulate how mind-blowing a 47 PC, seven monitor
World of Warcraft installation actually is. According to the original poster, all but two of the machines are "diskless" to cut down on load times and energy consumption, and both he and his SO threw down for oh-so-comfy recliners to kick back and raid in. Of course, envious (and understandably skeptical) commenters have
questioned the true motives behind such a momentous rig (farm much?), but it's not like this is the first time we've seen a fanboy take things
to the extreme. Click on through to catch the full gist.
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posted Jul 8th 2007 3:18AM
I can articulate it for you: "lame ass waste of time."
With the cash wasted on 47 machines (at probably about 1500 a piece) and the $13/month on those 47 machines (intial cost ~$70,500, and monthly cost $611). This guy could have outright bought a badass car, paid for some STRONG weight loss pills and had a gym membership and a personal trainer, and covered full collision insurance on said car. Having said that, he would probably be in a situation where he could have a hot girlfriend and respect from friends and neighbors.
Instead he's probably living in Grandmom's basement with a large supply of red vines, mountain dew or bawls, cheetos, and a astronaut style piss bag. Nuff said.
Oddly enough, with the farming capability this guy now holds, he can do all that monthly with enough spare change for the occasional hooker.
So, someone is gonna start "farming" then?
their electricity bill must be astronomical...
With all those computers, they can probably find a cure for cancer from all those distributed computing projects...
Who the hell needs the cure for cancer when you can play Wow on THIS?
I'm not a WoW player so can someone explain what 47 CPUs adds to the game, multiple monitors I understand but what does the extra horsepower buy you?
It isnt about horsepower or whatever. They just have multiple computers and accounts so that they can raid by themselves and not have to worry about joining guilds/clans and if someone is bad or not...
No Leeeeeeroooooy Jenkins for this couple
I still don't get it, how would they operate all these various accounts simultaneously?. All they have set up are 3 monitors (each). Won't they need a keyboard for each PC as well?
But can it run Doom....
Sure it can, you can kill yourself 46 different ways at the same time.
OK now I understand, Thanks!!!
47 CPUs = anti-social
I can only assume this guy and his girlfriend are some of the fattest fatties known to man. I'm happy they found each other, most likely during a late night Big Mac Attack.
Judging by the fact he has a Madonna video running on the middle monitor, I doubt he has a girlfriend.
Girlfriend? I guarantee you that anyone with this kind of rig doesn't have a girlfriend.
I can only assume by that stereotypical comment, you are an acne-ridden 14-year-old who has yet to even know what it feels like to hold a female in your arms. You're mom/grandmother, doesn't count.
In the original posting of this on whatever forums they were on (not the Endgadget Read Link), the guy that posted these pics states that the second seat is for his Girlfriend, who controls half of the boxes while he controls the other half. Judging by the massive girth of the chairs, and the obvious fact that to invest this much time and money into WoW, I can only assume their massive asses are glued to that poor blue pleather for at least 23 hours a day.
You made me laugh!
Al Gore hates you.
First, why should I care if Al Gore hates me because I hate him back? Also, what does Al Gore have to do with this topic? Well, I can see which of us probably buys *pollution offsets*, an idiotic thing anyhow...
Yeah, he's jealous because he only has three
http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/22/al-gore-ex-vp-environmentalist-gadget-freak/
I was in fact only joking KeyBladeBoy. Calm down.
One of the whole idea behind MMO's is that they're a social game...but with only two people...that's not all that social...plus...does this mean they have 47 accounts? I don't like paying for one...
good point... it must cost a fortune
Fact: one computer with WOW makes you anti-social. 47 makes you a hermit.
This makes me feel ashamed to be a gamer.
and I thought I was a geek.
It looks like a time travel to back when a computer took up one whole room. Except this time, it's really not technical progress, but social regression.
are those shuttle pc's?
You all say that because you have no idea that farming at that capacity can make you well over $7,000.00usd/month. I know this because I have farmed gold onn my duel processor 4 monitor rig.
And how does one make money from simply having a large processor farm? If it takes the smallest amount of time then this guy probably isn't doing it.
As stated in the greatest South Park episode ever (World of Warcraft):
"We are dealing with someone who has no life"...
but... how do you kill that which has no life?
MOMMMM BATHROOM!!!
In the forum that it's linked to they go on to say the images are stolen and the whole thing is just made up, it's claimed that the setup belongs to gold/account sellers.
47 PCs?
why not a some huge servers or a blade with VMWare?
I have that monitor :]
Why not 50? Why 47?
Why 50? Why not 64?
They also had to buy a game for each of the computers not to mention the expansion if they wanted that.
why post a false story?
Why not look into it further?
But specially, why not FORTY-TWO?
Because that's how many roads a man must walk down, of course!
Wow that is a lot of PC power for a tired game at best... Raiding in WOW is about as much fun as mowing the grass with a group of greedy gardeners. The CPU's would be better served rendering "Star field simulation" screensavers.
By the way, if anyone is curious, the block of 16 PC's in the middle are using the Aspire X-Qpack case. It is a small cube case with 3 windows and takes a Micro ATX motherboard and has a removable motherboard tray. The front also has a carrying handle and CPPU/HDD thermometers. I had it for my last computer and it was a very nice case.
Multiboxing is actually fairly well known now and there must be hundreds of wow players who do it...but usually just with 2 or 3 ! Not 47 :O IF WoW Accounts cost a tenner a month thats 470 a month :o
gm chat with a multiboxer
http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=setandget&tp=454222&poll_id=0&category_id=19&warned=y
why does this remind me of the South Park episode of WoW?
Thats Xzin, he's been multiboxing for as long as I remember, and been the talk of WoW for a long time. He's constantly playing all of his "zin" characters, usually in battlegrounds or some type of PvP. It's pretty hilarious to watch an army of Zins wandering around killing everything in sight. He's been the subject of much controversy, with players constantly reporting him for cheating, or an unfair advantange. Multiboxing is not against the TOS, so he gets away with it.
I knew he had an awesome setup for gaming, but I had no idea it had grown this large. This setup is pretty incredible, wish he lived locally so I could play on such a setup.
What realm is he on?
That's not Xzin's setup. Xzin only runs 5 characters.
oh come on. do engadget truly believe this is true. Do alittle search and you'll find out that this has been been proved fake. A wow forum i believe
Link?
May be their business is to assemble computers, so before they ship them to their customers and to load their requested software, they put in WoW.
the guy who claimed this was a setup that he and his girlfriend used to run 46 characters between them on raids was LYING. he swiped the pictures from elsewhere. this is a professional goldfarming setup that some business runs. these pictures were run months ago on mmoglider.com and this story was debunked days ago on Digg, where it first popped up and also after Gizmodo ran the story.
come on Engadget! we expect better investigation than this!
why would u need 47 pc's and 7 monitors to accomplish what two modest, year-old desktop boxes could easily do? and running a separate monitor just for thottbot or whatever is like admitting u cant even play the game without resorting to cheating... :P
I know everyone else is thinking it except for the WOW fanboys/fangirls. What a looser. You would think for a setup like that a normal person would go and buy something a little more well useful. It should be running an @Home program on those.
I was actually thinking what a loser, but some might have been thinking what a looser instead.
They should join the Engadget folding team.
Can you say thousands of points per second?
Folks, these are clear signs of someone who is in need of going to Cancun to get laid!
Why not 300...
But seriously, how do they control them all?
You'd be hitting the switching station nearly every 5 seconds...
btw, do they have one of those intercoms too?
I imagine you can get away with some crafty use of "follow" commands and scripts/macros to target-assist. Chances are you'd want to focus almost exclusively on DPS for the following accounts and control a healing-class so you can focus on keeping them alive during fights?
Im imagining that WoW guy from teh south park episode... anyways, to each their own.
I'm calling shens, no way that guy has a SO...
C'mon, get some nice speakers to go with the setup.
Anyone care to even guestimate the value of the system?
It is from the company mmoexchange.com . They buy/trade gold for video games . Usually they have their logo on these pictures... They run glider ( mmoglider.com )
Actually, the "why XX number of boxes" is a good question. With dual/quad core machines, virtualization, etc., why do you need one box per account? You'd think it would be worth the money to get slightly better machines and run multiple instances of the game on those?
In other words, what prevents you from "dual-boxing" on a single box?
In fact, you can "dual-box" on a single box; you only need 2 game accounts and one installation of the game.
A friend of mine does this all the time (purely legitimate purposes, believe me--his idea of fun). And I know his box isn't even as high-powered as mine is.
I agree completely, I played a TINY bit of WoW and I ran 2 instances of the game, and I'm sure I could have run even more. Some people go to great length to be huge noobs.
"Mom, more hot pockets!"
"That's ubber-cool."
More amazing than that picture are the posters trying to explain why someone would need 47 cpu's. Farming for gold? This has taken the D&D dorkery i saw people engaging in in high school to a completely new level. Unless your splitting atoms or working on DNA I am sure one PC to play a game is enough.
Well its not that hard to tell its a lie. Think for a few min, how many guys with multi-computer setups that play WoW have girlfriends? I rest my case.
For all you guys who think WoW players who spend a lot of time playing are generally fat ugly people, have a look at this linke: http://www.collegehumor.com/cutecollegegirl/EllieT
Not to mention mia rose, who also plays wow on my server (mal'ganis) www.miarosexxx.com
Will it blend? That is the Question!
I want to know what desk system that is. Would like to get a hold of the dual desk system myself. Anybody know what it is and where you can get it?
That guy is purely selfish, instead of wasting so much money on those stuffs, he can donate it to poor children that cannot go to school or even have difficulties with water to drink!!
Or even help with planting new trees instead of polluting world with the waste of the power plants!
Waste of money and time