Extravagant World of Warcraft setup includes 47 PCs, seven monitors

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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[paloooz @ Jul 8th 2007 3:25AM]

I can articulate it for you: "lame ass waste of time."

[Ben @ Jul 8th 2007 6:10PM]

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.

[bastholio @ Jul 9th 2007 10:48AM]

Oddly enough, with the farming capability this guy now holds, he can do all that monthly with enough spare change for the occasional hooker.

[Spaceman @ Jul 8th 2007 3:30AM]

So, someone is gonna start "farming" then?

[wako @ Jul 8th 2007 3:30AM]

their electricity bill must be astronomical...


With all those computers, they can probably find a cure for cancer from all those distributed computing projects...

[L. Cyphre @ Jul 9th 2007 3:23AM]

Who the hell needs the cure for cancer when you can play Wow on THIS?

[pagercam @ Jul 8th 2007 3:30AM]

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?

[wako @ Jul 8th 2007 3:32AM]

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

[Ashish @ Jul 8th 2007 5:28AM]

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?

[Corey @ Jul 8th 2007 3:32AM]

But can it run Doom....

[TJ @ Jul 8th 2007 10:10AM]

Sure it can, you can kill yourself 46 different ways at the same time.

[pagercam @ Jul 8th 2007 4:20AM]

OK now I understand, Thanks!!!
47 CPUs = anti-social

[Pez @ Jul 8th 2007 3:36AM]

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.

[Taylor @ Jul 8th 2007 4:03AM]

Judging by the fact he has a Madonna video running on the middle monitor, I doubt he has a girlfriend.

[Eric Fred Norris @ Jul 8th 2007 7:43AM]

Girlfriend? I guarantee you that anyone with this kind of rig doesn't have a girlfriend.

[Kr4t05 @ Jul 8th 2007 10:13AM]

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.

[Pez @ Jul 8th 2007 1:08PM]

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.

[jbwages @ Jul 8th 2007 2:45PM]

You made me laugh!

[Maxwell Ash @ Jul 8th 2007 3:45AM]

Al Gore hates you.

[keybladeboy777 @ Jul 9th 2007 10:14PM]

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...

[ark_v2 @ Jul 8th 2007 12:56PM]

Yeah, he's jealous because he only has three
http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/22/al-gore-ex-vp-environmentalist-gadget-freak/

[Maxwell Ash @ Jul 10th 2007 2:59AM]

I was in fact only joking KeyBladeBoy. Calm down.

[David Wixom @ Jul 8th 2007 4:03AM]

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...

[trancer @ Jul 8th 2007 4:50AM]

good point... it must cost a fortune

[Cochell @ Jul 8th 2007 1:29PM]

Fact: one computer with WOW makes you anti-social. 47 makes you a hermit.

[Dave @ Jul 8th 2007 4:24AM]

This makes me feel ashamed to be a gamer.

[lilme @ Jul 8th 2007 4:36AM]

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.

[trancer @ Jul 8th 2007 4:50AM]

are those shuttle pc's?

[neddly @ Jul 8th 2007 4:40AM]

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.

[Ben @ Jul 8th 2007 5:59PM]

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.

[ypod @ Jul 8th 2007 4:46AM]

As stated in the greatest South Park episode ever (World of Warcraft):

"We are dealing with someone who has no life"...

[Bigsby @ Jul 8th 2007 3:28PM]

but... how do you kill that which has no life?

[zach @ Jul 8th 2007 11:56PM]

MOMMMM BATHROOM!!!

[Defiance @ Jul 8th 2007 5:00AM]

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.

[aGoGo @ Jul 8th 2007 5:26AM]

47 PCs?
why not a some huge servers or a blade with VMWare?

[Toby @ Jul 8th 2007 5:56AM]

I have that monitor :]

[Tom @ Jul 8th 2007 5:48AM]

Why not 50? Why 47?

[Atanas Boev @ Jul 8th 2007 6:09AM]

Why 50? Why not 64?

[drew @ Jul 8th 2007 1:59PM]

They also had to buy a game for each of the computers not to mention the expansion if they wanted that.

[wassup @ Jul 8th 2007 7:12AM]

why post a false story?

Why not look into it further?

[[e-mail] @ Jul 8th 2007 7:11AM]

But specially, why not FORTY-TWO?

[-Tj- @ Jul 8th 2007 8:37AM]

Because that's how many roads a man must walk down, of course!

[Mark @ Jul 8th 2007 7:33AM]

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.

[Rob @ Jul 8th 2007 7:34AM]

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.

[Krishan Patel @ Jul 8th 2007 7:55AM]

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

[mk @ Jul 8th 2007 8:00AM]

gm chat with a multiboxer

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=setandget&tp=454222&poll_id=0&category_id=19&warned=y

[chosen1 @ Jul 8th 2007 8:49AM]

why does this remind me of the South Park episode of WoW?

[Dan @ Jul 8th 2007 8:50AM]

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.

[James @ Jul 23rd 2007 5:44PM]

What realm is he on?

[foodle @ Jul 8th 2007 4:50PM]

That's not Xzin's setup. Xzin only runs 5 characters.