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what pc specs should you have to be able to multibox 10 plus accoun?

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Jarod Garamonde
Jolly Codgers
Get Off My Lawn
#21 - 2014-06-05 02:53:25 UTC
"My PC was equipped with the following...."?

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rai oden
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#22 - 2014-06-05 02:59:37 UTC
Malcolm Shinhwa wrote:
rai oden wrote:
Im looking to get a ASUS G75VW-DS71 17.3-Inch Laptop.... im wondering if it can handle it. What do you guys suggest?


I would suggest finding a game you like to play instead of one you like to farm.


I like playing this one lol or else if stop.
Haiiro Aurgnet
Celestial Phoenix Industries
#23 - 2014-06-05 03:00:15 UTC
Alexander Thorsen wrote:
Laptop? Uh, not happening. Top-of-the-line for a laptop is mid grade (i.e. average consumer grade) in a desktop. My suggestion is to build yourself a mid-tower A10 desktop (Kaveri, for the HSA). You're definitely going to need about 16 gigs of Corsair Dominator or similar, a gaming grade motherboard (they're not expensive for the FM2+ socket), a small Samsung EVO SSD, and an R7 260X. You'll spend about the same as you would for a good Team Monopoly laptop (~$1500), but it won't bog down and crash from heat dissipation issues, nor will it die in a year from the same.



as a sugegstion, if your budget is 1500$ DONT buy an a10. if you have that kind of money get an intel and a dedicated card. a dedicated card and CPU will lap an APU. APUs are for building gaming rigs under 1000$
Alexander Thorsen
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#24 - 2014-06-05 04:02:53 UTC
My point is that to even approach what he wants to do on a laptop he's going to need to spend $1500, so he might as well spend the money on a desktop and save himself from having to buy another laptop next year. But, since you brought it up, let's play a game.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.1644350

Sorry, but that would lose hard to an AMD APU system I could build. In fact I have a build list on Google Drive that's $2,000 only because of the $500 tower and it would murder NewEgg's bundlerific little deal there. Crossfire with an R7 290x, anyone?
Mythen
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#25 - 2014-06-05 04:44:21 UTC
Lugia3 wrote:
Rumless MK2 wrote:
Malcolm Shinhwa wrote:
rai oden wrote:
Im looking to get a ASUS G75VW-DS71 17.3-Inch Laptop.... im wondering if it can handle it. What do you guys suggest?


I would suggest finding a game you like to play instead of one you like to farm.


Nothing wrong with making 1b an hour soloing incursions in the safety of highsec during slow periods.






Profit per character is still the same as it would be running 1 guy with other people. That said, you can do them whenever you want without waiting for other scrubs to form up, which is an advantage.


Instead of 10 accounts.... you could probably just use the cash to buy plex and have the isk without the work?
Vyl Vit
#26 - 2014-06-05 05:04:12 UTC
I know an optometrist who'd love to meet anyone ten boxing on a laptop.
He just bought a yacht and is worried about the payments.

Paradise is like where you are right now, only much, much better.
rai oden
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#27 - 2014-06-05 13:16:00 UTC
Vyl Vit wrote:
I know an optometrist who'd love to meet anyone ten boxing on a laptop.
He just bought a yacht and is worried about the payments.



Jay looking for info
And ppls exp
E-2C Hawkeye
HOW to PEG SAFETY
#28 - 2014-06-05 13:19:05 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:
rai oden wrote:
Loraine Gess wrote:
I would not recommend trying to multibox 10 accounts on a laptop unless you are seeking to circumvent the NPT...

NPT?

Nut Protector, Thermal.


Yup, for sure get one of those lap top cooling stands if your serious about 10 accounts.
rai oden
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#29 - 2014-06-05 14:52:08 UTC
E-2C Hawkeye wrote:
stoicfaux wrote:
rai oden wrote:
Loraine Gess wrote:
I would not recommend trying to multibox 10 accounts on a laptop unless you are seeking to circumvent the NPT...

NPT?

Nut Protector, Thermal.


Yup, for sure get one of those lap top cooling stands if your serious about 10 accounts.


That's what id do. .... for sure. ... it s a big lap top
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#30 - 2014-06-05 18:57:48 UTC  |  Edited by: Tau Cabalander
rai oden wrote:
Tau Cabalander wrote:
I've cooked 3 video cards on two gaming-grade laptops.

I moved to using a desktop.

So pc is highlighted recommended
I'm talking it that u had top notch lts

Many people thought I was insane for paying exorbitant amounts for premium gaming laptops.

Looking back, so do I.

Laptops just don't have enough heat dissipation, and they are howling noisy when they try (and still fail).

I now have a gaming desktop, and a non-gaming laptop that I use for web surfing & watching movies when away from the desktop.

EDIT: I also cooked the internal power supply, and an external power brick, on one of the laptops too. I also had premium on-site-repair warranties, and wrote-off both laptops when they finally failed out of warranty. The on-site repairman indicated that replacement parts were often refurbished, which was out of his control, and they were often not as durable; he also admitted he saw a lot of similar heat-related failures.
Saisin
Chao3's Rogue Operatives Corp
#31 - 2014-06-05 19:08:37 UTC
Lugia3 wrote:

Profit per character is still the same as it would be running 1 guy with other people. That said, you can do them whenever you want without waiting for other scrubs to form up, which is an advantage.

I am not so sure about the theory that profit would be the same...

Mythen wrote:

Instead of 10 accounts.... you could probably just use the cash to buy plex and have the isk without the work?

I believe the strategy behind multiboxing is to quickly get out of paying sub with cash, and produce enough to plex all the accounts, and not have to pay for the game anymore.

Obviosuly, as CCP authorizes this, this may not be very common to reach that goal with multiboxing, else they would ban it in a heartbeat... I'd still be curious to see the numbers.

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Gospadin
Bastard Children of Poinen
#32 - 2014-06-05 19:30:27 UTC
I have a Xeon E3-1275v3 quad core "desktop" and it only uses about 40% CPU with 6 accounts active.

Any modern desktop CPU will be fine if you have 16GB of RAM or more. Figure about 1GB per client, assuming you're in a relatively mellow area. If all machines are part of a large battle with many players on grid, you'll need a bit more horsepower.
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#33 - 2014-06-05 19:31:55 UTC
Just realised the purpose of this thread

Carry on

Multiboxing is great

etc

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Josef Djugashvilis
#34 - 2014-06-05 19:40:48 UTC
Just get a bigger lap and balance more computers on it.

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rai oden
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#35 - 2014-06-05 19:45:23 UTC
Tau Cabalander wrote:
rai oden wrote:
Tau Cabalander wrote:
I've cooked 3 video cards on two gaming-grade laptops.

I moved to using a desktop.

So pc is highlighted recommended
I'm talking it that u had top notch lts

Many people thought I was insane for paying exorbitant amounts for premium gaming laptops.

Looking back, so do I.

Laptops just don't have enough heat dissipation, and they are howling noisy when they try (and still fail).


Wow. .. Thanks for this, did u switch to pc?
I now have a gaming desktop, and a non-gaming laptop that I use for web surfing & watching movies when away from the desktop.

EDIT: I also cooked the internal power supply, and an external power brick, on one of the laptops too. I also had premium on-site-repair warranties, and wrote-off both laptops when they finally failed out of warranty. The on-site repairman indicated that replacement parts were often refurbished, which was out of his control, and they were often not as durable; he also admitted he saw a lot of similar heat-related failures.
Carmen Electra
AlcoDOTTE
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#36 - 2014-06-05 20:07:24 UTC
Detecting tears caused by ISBoxer.

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rai oden
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#37 - 2014-06-05 23:14:22 UTC
Alright so 16 of ram with .... i7?
Carniflex
StarHunt
Mordus Angels
#38 - 2014-06-06 07:57:21 UTC
I would suggest going at minimum with 256 MB of graphics memory and 1 GB of RAM per client. CPU is not too relevant as EVE is not that demanding in that regard but nevertheless at least a dualcore would be good idea, quad-core should have no problems dragging along approx 10 EVE clients.

Another aspect I would look into is SSD - when the number of clients increases having EVE on SSD can substantially lower the loading time after jumps - especially if you are running with lowi(sh) amounts of RAM.

EVE is a 1 Hz game about spreadsheets in space so it is kinda playable (but ofc not pleasant) as long as you get 2-3 fps or so. I would aim at least at 12 fps or so - which is pretty ok although obviously choppy.

So what hardware for 10 clients - I would suggest a desktop computer with a reasonably modern GFX card, both AMD and nVidia have 3+ GB of vRAM in their latest cards. For 10 clients 16 GB of RAM is reasonable as it would leave a little to spare. And I would suggest getting a reasonable quality SSD as well for the EVE to sit on. With operating system on the same SSD about 128 GB should do (if you put page file elsewhere) without operating system on SSD a 64 GB one would do.

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