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Eve PC Build, GPU vs CPU advice
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Chks
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2014-03-16 12:29:01 UTC

I am about to build a new PC and its basically for Eve as I don't really play any other games. I want it to be able to run multiple Eve accounts at 1920 x 1080 or maybe up to say 2560 x 1440.

I have been led to believe that Eve is not super-demanding from a graphics point of view when compared to other games and using modern Gfs cards which would lead me to believe that I should prioritise CPU over GPU, is this correct?

For example, using a budget of £400 for CPU / GPU which would give more FPS running multiple Eve clients @ stock Mhz:

i5/4670K with GTX770
i7/4770k with GTX760

I know this has come up before in earlier threads but thought it worthwhile asking for an updated view and would be interested in your advice.

Cheers

Chks
Zenith Gravit
LionGate Enterprises
#2 - 2014-03-16 20:49:14 UTC
I've got a Core i7 960 and a GTX 680, and that setup runs 2 clients with nearly max graphics at 1920x1200 perfectly. if I were you I'd shoot for a 16x10 resolution. its a small amount of extra real estate, but its nice.
Chks
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2014-03-17 06:25:35 UTC
Zenith Gravit wrote:
I've got a Core i7 960 and a GTX 680, and that setup runs 2 clients with nearly max graphics at 1920x1200 perfectly. if I were you I'd shoot for a 16x10 resolution. its a small amount of extra real estate, but its nice.

Would like to do that but I have found its actually quite hard to find any reasonably priced monitors that aren't 16:9 or 21:9.

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Zenith Gravit
LionGate Enterprises
#4 - 2014-03-20 01:47:39 UTC
Aineko Macx
#5 - 2014-03-22 20:53:59 UTC
In my experience the load split between CPU and GPU can vary a lot in eve. CPU load scales roughly with the number of objects on grid. GPU load depends more on the number of effects and how far you are zoomed in, i.e. 200 battleships running sebos zoomed very near can be quite taxing on the GPU. If you are wiling to disabled effects and turrets and turn quality down GPU will be a non-issue.

I run multiple clients on a i5-2500k + HD6950 on a single 2560x1400 screen. Two clients side by side run perfectly. At 3 I notice a loss of performance and at 4 things get very jerky. You can extrapolate the expected performance of your setup based on that, since the two configurations are faster, but not hugely so.

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Natya Alekscyev
Doomheim
#6 - 2014-03-28 01:29:00 UTC
i run 4 accounts , split between 3 monitors, my pc is a AMD phenom 2 x4 black edition ( 3-4 years old), with a single ati 9670 running stock settings ( no overclocking going on at all) and i have max everything settings. I have absolutely no problems at all. This is running on the dx9 though, i havent really fiddled with my settings since before they made dx11 available.

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Chks
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2014-03-30 22:07:38 UTC
Useful info thanks, my current PC is an i5-2500, 560ti runs three clients just fine at 1920x1080.

I am mainly trying to get my head around how this scales to 2560x1440, I have no problem turning down the graphics, like many Eve players I mostly play zoomed out with sound off, he he

I think I will invest more in CPU, I can drop the detail levels after all.

Thanks

Chks
Karbowiak
Sacred Templars
Fraternity.
#8 - 2014-03-30 23:13:57 UTC
Go with the i5 and GTX 770..

Why? Because the HT in the i7 isn't much more than a gimmick that won't give you much more than 30% more performance in multithreaded applications.

Whereas the GTX 770 is quite a bit faster than the GTX 760..

So, GTX 770 and i5.. Blink