EVE General Discussion

With none of them minimized? You may want to go with the 4gb card then just to be safe. I run a three monitor setup on a GTX 690. Have it on SL! so it only recognizes 2gb of video memory. I run my resolution at 1920x1200. I have two accounts up on two of the monitors, my main is maxed settings with AA on and the alt is maxed settings with AA off. AA on for both seems to drop below 30 fps in both clients. Otherwise runs great. But like I said, if you are running 6+, unless you are having them all sitting docked, I would go for the 4gb option.

You'll find that there isn't enough room on the screen to be efficient about it. 2 is good, perhaps some people do 3 but I can't imagine running any more than that.

since you'll be playing with graphics set to low, graphics memory is next to nothing in terms of importance. I used to quad-box with VMs, and those were based solely on the CPU for graphics. i had no ill effects with 4gb of RAM and an i5-750 quad-core CPU. i'd be surprised if you need something special for tons of accounts, as MMOs are hereditarily very CPU-throttled thanks to requirements for crappy computers and laptops.

ITT people post their expensive setups and make the OP think that more hardware is needed =) it's cute when people just keep stacking more hardware on because obviously more must be better and overkill is a lie. you can make a quad-boxing system that draws less than 450w from the wall for very, very cheap. stick with a solid CPU - sandy bridge is a great option here, don't need the expensive ivy boards - and a decent amount of RAM, around 1gb per instance, and you're set. a decent graphics card is all thats required as long as you're using VMs instead of multiple instances (check patch notes for why).

your issue is because you've got a Q6600. that's what, five years old at this point? the first really marketable quad-core with a tiny 1-66MHz FSB. the clock speed isn't too terrible, although moore's law says that 2.4ghz on that old of a cpu architecture is LOLtastic nowadays, but it's the puny FSB that's killing you. keep the GFX card, get a sandy-bridge based mobo and CPU (asus and msi make great boards, you can find a good one in the 100$-125$ range) and some DDR3 RAM since DDR2 won't work on it, and you're basically set. you'll likely need a bigger PSU, but it depends on what you have and how old it is.

Thanks for the replies so far.
Here are the core specs for the computer I intend to get:

-CPU: Intel Core i5 2500K Processor LGA1155
-RAM: G-Skill 16G(4X4G) DDR3 1600MHZ
-MOBO: Asus P8Z77-V PRO
-GPU: GTX 670 with either 2gb or 4gb ram

The idea is to run said 6 accounts without having them minimised and have graphics settings/detail at a decent level as I'm sick of playing with low only.
So with these specs and intentions in mind, is 4gb of vram necessary as opposed to just 2gb?

Well if that is impossible on one monitor WITHOUT using low settings then tell me that it is impossible rather than assuming I'm a troll you noob.

The fact is, that if I can run 6 clients on absolute low settings, unminimised with a Q6600 cpu and a gtx 295 (both of which are a few years old now) then its not a high expection to think that, as of 2012, a current mid range computer would be able to run 6 clients unminimised with medium or even high settings.

Please tell me what idiocy compelled you to assume I was some kind of troll? if you don't want to help and just play the failed troll-spotter role on threads all day then do so elsewhere.

Well the important question here is, are you running all settings on low? And if you're not, do you get stable fps?
If I recall correctly the 590 is dual gpu with 3gb vram in total.

My mistake, I glanced past that part. Thanks for the help, I think I might just go with the 4gb version of the 670 after all.

Its a good thing I dont do botting then - pretty sure people who do run accounts minimised...
Unless someone can vouch for 2gb being sufficient based on the settings and specs I mentioned, I will be purchasing a EVGA GTX 670 4gb SC card tomorrow.

Tested it just for fun. I have 6 accounts up, all maxed out graphic settings. 5 of them are autopiloting & I'm playing in the 6th window.

Windows says its using ~10gb of ram.

My setup:
Intel i7 960 @ 3.20ghz
24g Ram (Corsair DDR3 1333)
Single GeForce GTX 580 1.5g
2 Monitors

(There is no need for that much RAM, I just wanted it. And yes, I'm running Win 7 Professional so all of it is available.)

With maximized windows but windowed mode (1920x1080), it was a choppy when spinning the ship, and very choppy when targeting baddies, it got unplayable. CPU was nearly maxed.

Not sure if this will work:
CPU

*shrug* The only thing I had open was EVE and a Firefox browser.


Edit: For a baseline, w/ 1 EVE doing nothing, and a Firefox browser, i'm running at ~6% cpu.
Edit: The EVE process for a combat mission took ~10%. That plus overhead for all the windows and stuffs, it makes sense.