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New PC for triple-boxing ?
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X Kent
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#1 - 2011-09-13 17:01:56 UTC
Quad Core i7 2600
GA-Z68P-DS3 http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3899#ov
SSD 60gb osz
LG DVDRW SATA x22
zalnman 1156 cooler
Raidmax aztec case
8gb ram kingston 1333mhz
acbel 660w
ATI RADEON Sapphire 6950 2gb ddr5

Will it work well with 3 accounts with full graphics and 1028*1600(or something like that) resolution ?
Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises
Otherworld Empire
#2 - 2011-09-13 17:03:08 UTC  |  Edited by: Chribba
Since I can quad with my two year old crap I'm sure you can - just turn gfx and stuff to low and disable CQ for best performance - but even with high settings, I'm sure it will run decent.

Also get two screens at least Smile

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Nyio
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2011-09-13 17:03:33 UTC
Get a Nvidia card instead. The rest looks cool to me, atleast way better than what I currenly have.

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X Kent
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#4 - 2011-09-13 17:09:07 UTC
@chrriba:
Yea but I am buying a new one so I want it to hold well with 3 ACs in full graphics, I can dual box with my stoneage core2duo at lowest settings. Want to finally see the beautiful side of eve :-)

@Nyoi:
I checked the reviews and seems there is no nvidia card that at the same price range and with the same performance. Any that you can recommend ?
Sh0plifter
Underworld Property Accounting Partnership
#5 - 2011-09-13 17:28:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Sh0plifter
Quiet honestly, I triple box with a laptop and it works decent. Depends on what you do really. If all three are going into the same combat zone then yeah, mine doenst hold so well. Though, looking at that, I'd say it is good to go and should hold up great. Even in a laggier situaion.
Morganta
The Greater Goon
#6 - 2011-09-13 17:32:12 UTC
X Kent wrote:
Want to finally see the beautiful side of eve :-)


sorry, but it was phased out to make more room for the CQ
Nyio
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2011-09-13 17:47:04 UTC
Well I can recommend this as I just recently got one myself: Gainward GeForce® GTX 570 1280MB "Phantom", there are also another pre-overclocked version called "Goes Like Hell" but it's a bit more expensive.

As the prices can vary from one week til the next I'd start by looking at the GPUs and then use a price compare site.

Nvidia GPU Compare List
Nvidia GPU Compare Tool

Note: that the Nvidia compare links are just to give you an idea on the GPUs, the card manufacturer may vary for a good deal.

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David Grogan
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2011-09-13 17:55:18 UTC  |  Edited by: David Grogan
X Kent wrote:
Quad Core i7 2600
GA-Z68P-DS3 http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3899#ov
SSD 60gb osz
LG DVDRW SATA x22
zalnman 1156 cooler
Raidmax aztec case
8gb ram kingston 1333mhz
acbel 660w
ATI RADEON Sapphire 6950 2gb ddr5

Will it work well with 3 accounts with full graphics and 1028*1600(or something like that) resolution ?




acbel 660w might be a little underpowered if u plan on upgrading gcards in the future

get a good branded psu maybe 1000watt

also 60gb ssd is a tad low.... win 7 + updates + sp1 + driver software chews up a fair bit of hard drive space. you would be better off with a 128gb ssd drive to ensure enough space for all that + a decent swap file space. (virtual memory = 1.5x time your physical ram typically)

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SpaceSquirrels
#9 - 2011-09-13 18:03:16 UTC
Prolly go nvidia I myself have an ATI, but they dont work as well with eve. Might wanna go SLI and down grade CPU..just to support 3 monitors, as 3 off one card can lead to problems from time to time. Then upgrade power supply. 700w or above (depends on what cards and if you have a zillion HDDs)

Also you're going to need more than a 60gb SSD unless you're all about NAS, SAN or cloud storage. Get a 500 - 1TB regular HDD.

But really take it easy on the CPU, and just buy another monitor or 3. Eve still is mostly ram intensive.
Theodemir
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#10 - 2011-09-13 18:14:04 UTC
The CPU is a little ott for running eve (even three accounts simultaneously), the extra threads (double) doesn't really come into play with many games. But if you have the money to blow on it, why not Smile I myself am waiting for the Ivy Bridge for my next CPU upgrade. You could downgrade to the i5 2500K, OC easily to 4.5ghz and notice no difference between that and the i7(OC respectively).

Also to note, in my experience even with the latest drivers, Nvidia cards don't show all the effects in EvE (Acceleration Gates pops to mind) while with the latest ATI drivers they do. That was with 480GTX and 6870 (x2). For multiple monitor setups, ATI all the way. So effortless and beautiful when you've got it running.

Have fun!
Othran
Route One
#11 - 2011-09-13 18:20:00 UTC  |  Edited by: Othran
X Kent wrote:
Quad Core i7 2600
GA-Z68P-DS3 http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3899#ov
SSD 60gb osz
LG DVDRW SATA x22
zalnman 1156 cooler
Raidmax aztec case
8gb ram kingston 1333mhz
acbel 660w
ATI RADEON Sapphire 6950 2gb ddr5

Will it work well with 3 accounts with full graphics and 1028*1600(or something like that) resolution ?



Lose the ATI graphics if this is primarily for Eve. All the physics offload in Eve only works on NVidia cards. Currently that's not much of an issue but I suspect :awesome: will win over sense soon....

tl;dr for Eve use NVidia - yeah yeah I know, I have NVidia and ATI here but for Eve use NVidia.

Edit - actually I HAVE found something good about Incarna. No, really I have. I can have the physics simulation (clothes/hair) running on my 2 year old Alienware lappie and offload the entire nonsense to the second video card (which normally does nothing due to SLI windowing oddness). So now I can burn another 75W looking at... oh wait its a door. Heh.
Neftaran
Dread Guard
#12 - 2011-09-13 18:27:11 UTC
Running multiple clients in eve does not really take a high end rig. Eve is just not that intensive of a game. I can run 5 clients on a e7500 with an hd6800 splitting clients between a 24" LCD and a 21" crt. (yes another lcd would be nice) & 6 gigs of ram. Granted I don't run them all @ 1920 full graphics but quite honestly I don't see much difference in their graphic settings. Most of the time you're looking at a bunch of red + signs floating around /yawn.

You're rig should easily run three clients.

Personally I would probably wait till the new cores come out 1st quarter of 2012 but that's just me.
Aurora Fire
#13 - 2011-09-13 19:18:11 UTC
I have made 2 configurations for You, one with i5 k2500 and other with i7 k2600

but when i pressed "PREVIEW" ,forum ate my post and showed me empty space...Ugh

anyway

for games go i5 unless you have nothing to spend money on then i7

mobo is ok, nothing special (power section below avarage) and ugly color

regarding bad power section - . do not save money on PSU ! . Buy something with good +12V line for GPU which can suck a lot of Ampers (this maybe)

If You meant CNPS10X cooler then its fine.

RAM is good, basically the more the better. Speed is not that important but you might consider going for 1600+MHz

SSD OCZ .... but which model ???

ATI or NVidia, if I would have to choose i'd go ATI . Why ? I'm not bothered with all that Physx. Not many games use it and if they do you can barely see it.

And final advice.
If you want help with building new PC go to the specialized forum, don't ask on trolls forum.


ps. why the f*** forum automatically remove multiple spaces and leave only one between words ????
Rath Kelbore
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#14 - 2011-09-13 19:38:45 UTC
I'd recommend an Nvidia card over ATI. Regardless of which card is better Nvidia seems to have far less problems with eve specifically than ATI.

I plan on living forever.......so far, so good.
Herping yourDerp
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#15 - 2011-09-13 19:42:49 UTC
turn off CQ and u can triple box with any decent rig
Aurora Fire
#16 - 2011-09-13 20:18:30 UTC
Rath Kelbore wrote:
I'd recommend an Nvidia card over ATI. Regardless of which card is better Nvidia seems to have far less problems with eve specifically than ATI.

Care to list problems you are referring to ?
Skex Relbore
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#17 - 2011-09-13 20:43:47 UTC
Drop the crap PSU the power supply is very possibly the most important component of your system and the one you picked tested as being absolute crap.

Look for a Seasonic, or Corsair PSU, another option if you want something different would be the NZXT Halle90 series which is the one I went with and reviewed on par or slightly superior to the Corsair units, the XFS units are also worth a look. Either way don't scrimp. an 850 should supply plenty of juice for any video card you want unless you are looking to run a Crossfire or SLI configuration, even then it should be able to handle all but the most extreme configurations.
X Kent
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#18 - 2011-09-14 01:31:20 UTC
Thank you all for your advices !

About the PSU, I will for sure order something more powerful as I don't want to face any stability issues or something.

I only included the SSD because it will be used to run EVE, I will have another 2gb (normal disk) for the rest of the stuff.

I need the i7 for my mathlab stuff too.

Thanks again everyone !
Foofad
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#19 - 2011-09-14 01:48:28 UTC
PSU and CPU are overkill, and read what people said about the video card. I run 3 clients on an i5 2500k and nVidia 460gtx easily. And with that, my power draw at the outlet is about 250w at peak, and it idles at 180w (tested over several weeks with a Killawatt). People always overbuy their PSUs - for any and every single video card setup, 500w is more than enough. For SLI, it's still enough, but you can get another 100 watts just to be safe. You will not have stability issues.
Triggadex
Absolute Order
Absolute Honor
#20 - 2011-09-14 05:48:20 UTC
Foofad wrote:
PSU and CPU are overkill, and read what people said about the video card. I run 3 clients on an i5 2500k and nVidia 460gtx easily. And with that, my power draw at the outlet is about 250w at peak, and it idles at 180w (tested over several weeks with a Killawatt). People always overbuy their PSUs - for any and every single video card setup, 500w is more than enough. For SLI, it's still enough, but you can get another 100 watts just to be safe. You will not have stability issues.


I have no idea where you are getting your figures from.

Ref: http://www.geeks3d.com/20110131/the-truth-about-graphics-cards-power-consumption-requirements/

Depending on how old your card is i suppose.

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