EVE General Discussion

So i'v recently gotten into muli-boxing quite heavily with my alts and i seem to have come close to capping out my pc.

I was wondering what an idea PC build would be to run as many eve clients as possible off the 1 pc.
Try to keep it not so insane in price. 2-3k

And how many clients you think it can run.

Im currently running 12 eve clients on an old alx x58. 12gb ram , i7 970 and, and 2 gtx 295's

Thanks for the help.

How many do you intend to run? Also the purpose. If your intent is POS bashing and/or mining. You can go with quite a few. I did 5 off an, well old now Intel 3.2 Core 2 Duo. That's pretty old in todays standards.

Some things to increase performance client side.
Disable sound in the client
Turn down the effects.

I would have one client with sound with everything jacked up on graphics, everything else scaled pretty much all the way down.

A simple Intel i5, i7 should do the trick. If you want to do more then that you'll want to sit down when you see what two Intel Xeon CPU's cost. It would be cheaper to built two i5 PC's and use a keyboard multiplexer or a software solution to use both PC's at once.

Hope that's helpful.

edit: Plus side the new i5,i7 use less power. So you don't have to install a 30amp line for your outlet. Also they run cooler. So you don't have to spend a ton on AC trying to keep the room cool. Things to think about! I learned the hard way.

My first though is you need more ram. Having run 8 clients in the past myself, 12 clients on 12Gb is pushing it. I run 4 now on an i7930 with 6Gb and they can chew through that easily. I would also download GPU-Z and take a look at the utilization of the video cards.

Most worthless and unhelpful comment award. ^

OP, some suggestions:

Turn down all graphical settings to lowest on your alts
Use multiple computers if possible (ideal, really)
If you can't use multiple computers, you could perhaps try putting some of the accounts on a separate HDD/SSD to improve performance
Disable any background apps you might have running that aren't necessary
Turn off Windows services that aren't necessary to free up resources (kinda advanced but can help)

Probably doesn't want to socialize cause of trolls like you. Just sayin,

the limiting factor is the architecture. any extra ram or processor will yield a marginal increase.

at 15 clients you are putting your chipset under stress it was not designed to take. i would recommend you cool at least the northbridge. even top of the line consumer Motherboards, specially the ones for Intel CPUs, don't use active cooling. even if you put enough RAM, CPU cores, and VRAM to run all those clients, your motherboard is the one that has to make the data flow. and lowering resolution, texture quality, etc, does nothing to reduce the 30/35 active threads any client has at any given moment, plus all the HD reads and specially the cache writes, and don't forget each client has its own pipe to the VGA.

chances are your motherboard is already phisically damaged. :p

the main problem is that the clients are ran as separate processes with no attempt at saving threads or cycles, even when the modern windows cache does a great job at saving your hd from dying and keeping your internal buses from clogging up with more than 3 clients open, its still far from optimal for anything over 10 clients.

like i said, the increase in performance, or ability to run more clients, is marginal. your bottleneck is not on the processor, ram or vga, its on the hardware that connects all 3. and the consideration of hardware degradation starts to get very real, something not often taken into account on home pcs. you might as well buy a new pc, where the bus limitation is simply not there. there's a lot of software to manage and control multiple pcs on one monitor.

as soon as you consider hardware degradation, and like you said, you cant afford to have to replace hardware every year, you'll see that its a no brainer, get a new pc.

Not everyone has to purchase their friends and happy endings. I'm not so sure it's the OP whom is spending money unwisely.

Ummm, what. "No man would buy a house if he could get laid in a cardboard box." That's the entirety of civilization.