EVE General Discussion

There are way to many options, there is no "perfect pc". One of the biggest things is what resolution monitor do you use?

Any modern dual or quad core cpu will be fine, with 4GB+ memory (8 would be more ideal). Any mid range graphics card will run eve at full settings, I use a GTX670 with 2 screens and 3 clients at full settings. I'd imagine a 760/660 GTX would be a good budget card to go for, but even this is probably overkill for a single client on a 1080p screen.

The setup posted above (with the 3570K) would serve you fine for most tasks in Eve.

Since you say 'no matter what' is on the screen, however, it depends a little what you mean by that. If you are trying to get playable fps in a 1000-2000 man battle with brackets on, then the challenge becomes a little different.

Eve in that situation isn't able to make much use of multiple cores but the extra cache on chips like the 3970X Extreme Edition will help quite a lot (assuming it's also massively overclocked of course). If you were going that route, you'd want to wait for the 4960X release next month.

This is a brief video of one of Fountain's big battles recorded with both hud off and hud on (full brackets, drones, effects, everything with a few thousand in local). You probably need to set it to 1080p and then jump back to the beginning on the bar, since it's a rather short clip and there's too much movement on screen for 480p.

CPU is still more important than GPU in the big battles, so spend your extra money there. Of course, if you're playing at 2160p or so, you'll need SLI'd titans simply because no other card has enough video ram (I've seen it over 4gb usage at that res, per card).

Eve scales a lot depending what you're trying to get out of it, from the most humble laptop to the most extreme high end rig. For most people, though, the setup linked above (3570K/660) should do well.

Should probs add the caveat that I would want a system that could run graphics on full if CCP decided to go ahead with the optional hi res textus pack. Anyone know how that would affect the setup?

armor navy drake with ecm is my eve setup

edit: oops wrong tread

Talking about monitors my dad is keen on getting a touch screen. That sounds cool to me but has anyone got any exp using them with eve? Are they useless?

Monitors are interesting as there is a continuing discussion about IPS v TN - IPS monitors have greater brilliance (good for the like of photoshop) but tend to have a slow response time. Since the 770 can take 4 monitors, I would go with 2x24inch. Which one?
I go with the eyes. They are the thing that need to hold out for a few years so crappy monitors are disregarded. Why 2? you can have 2 accounts on one and 2 on the other - but ready for when you get accounts 5-10...

If you can afford it dual monitors its the way to go. I have a slightly larger main screen for fullscreen Eve, and a smaller one because alt tabbing sucks. From there you can control and monitor you voice comms, hardware, and websites. If you Pve you need related websites, and if you PvP you need intel sites.

What is Chribba's eve setup like? Maybe we could learn from that.