EVE General Discussion

Sure, it can be done. But video production — and especially the final rendering and encoding — is one of those rare cases where more is more as far as CPU goes. Since it's just a big, trivially parallelisable, non-linear, non-realtime maths problem, throwing as much power as possible (preferably backed by a bit of memory) at it makes it go away a hell of a lot faster.

…but then again, you could always just have two sandwiches instead of one while waiting and save the extra cost.

You'd get an awful lot of bacon for the price difference between i3 and i7, so you'd pretty much have to at that point.

You want dual fan cooling solution laptops that way both gpu and cpu have dedicated fans that dont share heatsinks.

Cooler by a lot quiet as well do t go slim versions you will shorten lifespan of components by half.

Have i7 , 870gtx m 6gb , 24gb ram pulls single client over 500fps.

I will be buying this soon enough.

http://www.msimobile.com/level3_productpage.aspx?id=453

Mind you, I am also planning to run Star Citizen and Elite Dangerous on there, along everything else on my Steam and ofcourse, multibox Eve.

I will, however, downgrade it to Win7 if i can find the correct drivers for the important bits. If not, I will cry myself to sleep after every gaming session using Win8.

Build your own! Its not hard... I have around $1,000 in my computer and it beats out most $1,500 computers.

Zalman Z11 Tower
MSI Z77a-G45 GAMING Mainboard
MSI GTX660 OC GAMING GPU
Intel i5-3450 CPU
Corsair Vengence 8GB RAM (can't remember speed off top of my head)
OCZ 128GB SATA6 (also known as SATA-iii) SSD
WD 2TB HDD
550watt PSU (more than enough to run this set up)
Corsair heatsink
Windows 7 OS
and a cheap CD/DVD drive since I use the thing to install the OS and the drivers for the motherboard.. and thats it.

Roughly a Grand or less. Saved so much money building this thing myself I was able to afford a $200 headset (Tritton Pro+)

I wonder why people still buy huge tower cases and ATX/EATX motherboards in a day and age where optical drives (when's the last time you burned a disc?) and loads of expansion cards aren't necessary.

So something like this with the haswell, windows 7, good thermal paste and a bronze psw would be a good choice for someone like myself who wants to buy a complete system?

http://www.chillblast.com/Chillblast-Fusion-Nebula-Haswell-PC.html

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Ease of assembly, universal compatibility, and dreams of one day stuffing 50 petabyte worth of drives in there.
In fact, “some day…” is probably a surprisingly big part of it: some day, you'll have two double-slot-wide cards SLI:d, and a hardware capture card for streaming, and you'll replace all of the parts over and over and want them to fit and… and… and… (never mind that not even a fraction of it will happen).

As for optical drives, I don't burn them (often) other than to deliver some media as a fall-back presentation or as an alternative to when they're skittish about USB drives. I also rip a fair amount… but even so, you're right: you might as well have that one external these days. And hell, even if you want an internal one, there are enough slim or vertically-mounted models that size shouldn't an issue anyway.

Oh, and quietly cooling those cases is also a fair bit easier. Again, grr, noise 🔇

While there's something to be said about that, this thinking will also quickly lead you to never actually buying a computer. The next great thing is always a month away, and if you want to make use of it, you have to wait a month and a half to have all the other parts updated to work with that new tech.

How many DDR4 mobos are out right now? What new tech will be just months away and not be supported in half a year when they do come out?


Great fans, though.

Yeah, it's fun how the laptop revolution has found its way back onto the desktop with boxes like those and the Mac Mini. Apple occasionally suggest that they started it with the Mini, which might be overreaching it slightly, but they certainly popularised it in a highly visible segment.

There's now enough oomph in a small package that you can do proper work on them and still allow for the workspace of a regular old workstation setup — multiple monitors, a decent array of full-sized peripherals, etc.

Even if you want to play graphics-intensive games you can still build a pretty small gaming PC with cases like this considering that small form factor motherboards and graphics cards exist. You can even fit a full-sized graphics card in that thing.

You simply don't need expansion cards beyond graphics anymore except in limited cases. I don't think most people even use optical drives after the OS installation (which can be done with a USB flash drive anyway)

If you buy a full/mid-size ATX case, chances are you're going to have several 5.25"/3.5" bays that you will never remove the blanks from. You might have a DVD burner that you carried over from your old build, but that's basically it. Your motherboard will have loads of expansion slots that you will never use, save for the PCI-E x16 for your graphics card. There's really no point in buying a "roomy" case if it's going to be mostly empty.