Hi

 

I'm looking at building a machine for gold farming specifically, i was just wondering what experiences people have and how many bots i could expect to run on this build or other builds people use (without gold/hour performance suffering dramatically), so far we can run ATplank (two subscriptions) twice on our test machine with a performance drop of around 100k gold per hour between the two accounts, the spec is an old AMD II x4 640 @ 3ghz

 

I'm looking at possibly building something like this

 

2500k overclocked to 4ghz

intel HD graphics

good z77 motherboard

8gb ram?

good heatsync 

500w branded psu

decent coolermaster heat sync

bog standard sata

 

buying this stuff used on eBay/gumtree to save on costs looking to recoup them anyway, assuming the bots are cpu intensive rather than gpu? advice and ground park figures appreciated, btw this is our first post but we do plan on contributing and being active in the community not just leeching.

 

cheers

 

i think a vps would be easier

Should probably buy vps's instead

I have 3 2600ks & 1 4770k and I would definitely recommend upgrading to the haswell CPU's (4670k for the i5 & 4770k for the i7). Every generation gives a 10-15% CPU increase. Buying used parts is a bit scary, but you can do what ever you want.

 

I would opt for the i7 instead of the i5 unless you really have no plans of never doing anything other than OSRS botting. I don't think OSRS utilizes hyperthreading, but it's nice to have in case you ever want to do something that does.

 

If using OSBot, I'd opt for 12-16 GB of ram because of the memory leak. Supposedly we'll be getting OSBot 2 that doesn't have said memory leak, so it's up to you. Normally, 8 would suffice for OSRS botting.

 

To the people who said they'd rather opt for a VPS, I really don't think that's a wise idea. To get similar specs on a VPS, you'll be paying $150/month with windows, and he'll never get the same amount of control he would with his own PC. After the first month of subscription, he's already saved when accounting for depreciation value.

 

You're getting into OSRS botting rather late though, so I'd be cautious about buying a rig just for this purpose.

 

You'll be able to run 15-20 bots though depending on your script's use of CPU & how much ram you go with (just because of the OSBot memory leak).

Edited March 1, 201411 yr by Kiji

put them on low cpu and you can run more

put them on low cpu and you can run more

 

My post is under the assumption that he'd be using the low CPU toggle. Regardless of the toggle, not all scripts use the same amount of CPU. Some scripts that do the same task use 2-3x as much CPU.

Thanks definitely going to look into renting as an alternative or additional setup alongside the build as I'm not dead against upgrading my main pc anyway, also can anyone suggest strong scripts for gold farming multiple accounts at planker is great profit but it's not the cheapest for the amount of bots in running and it requires a lot of gold to run for long periods (more risk for being banned and higher creation times for the accounts)