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Multiboxing, looking for a new video card help me decide
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TrinityNZXT
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#1 - 2016-09-05 02:52:31 UTC
Currently I'm running an Intel i7-4790 with 24GB DDR3 and an eVGA GTX 750. I run 5 clients and currently i can do this with out much lag running on all low settings. I'd like to upgrade my video card so I can run the 5 clients on all high settings. Thinking of getting an eVGA GTX 1060 6GB. Anyone know if that would be able to run 5 clients on max settings without lag / frame stutter?

Thanks.
Eternus8lux8lucis
Guardians of the Gate
RAZOR Alliance
#2 - 2016-09-05 03:18:02 UTC
TrinityNZXT wrote:
Currently I'm running an Intel i7-4790 with 24GB DDR3 and an eVGA GTX 750. I run 5 clients and currently i can do this with out much lag running on all low settings. I'd like to upgrade my video card so I can run the 5 clients on all high settings. Thinking of getting an eVGA GTX 1060 6GB. Anyone know if that would be able to run 5 clients on max settings without lag / frame stutter?

Thanks.

I run a lot of accounts myself. Im not near your hardware and even on medium settings Im getting up to 6 clients easily without any major interruption. I find that with an i5 and maxed it starts to lag out around 4 clients, but most of that does depend on some factors. PvP, jumping gates, lots of server calls that require loading will slow things down a lot. If you arent doing these sort of activities I would have to say yes you will be fine.

Im not terribly familiar with GeForce cards myself. But from GeForces website the 1060 is the lowest of the 10XX series. Given my experience with AMD cards I can tell you that often lowering the series by one and increasing the relative ranking of the card itself ( AMD cards x50 is the mid range, x30 is the lowest and x90 is the highest within a series) Will often get you better overall performance for generally the same price. But by your system specs I doubt money is the issue here so its a toss up there.

You also end up getting better reviews and testing because its been out just a tad longer. You know what brands, card ranges to skip, etc. But I am different than others there.

Just my 2 cents though. Nice setup either way.Smile

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That's right.

Had to end sometime.
Arcelian
0nus
#3 - 2016-09-05 03:31:14 UTC  |  Edited by: Arcelian
You just need a card with a decent amount of vram, that's it. That 1060 would be fine.
Serene Repose
#4 - 2016-09-05 03:36:33 UTC
Get the one with the chrome trim...cupholders, maybe...white sidewalls.

We must accommodate the idiocracy.
Keebler Wizard
Skew The Suits
#5 - 2016-09-05 03:39:17 UTC
Lately AMD cards havn't stacked up the best with nvidia. I think the 1060 actually beats out its equivalent AMD card, with more memory or something.

Im on a GTX 960, 2gb ram and I can handle a few clients easily plus tons of other crap going on. (Two monitors as well) and from what Iv read even the 1060 outclasses the higher end 970's and 980s. 1060 for a bargain. 1070 if you want some extra speed for extra cash. and 1080 if you wanna go all out.
Nex Killer
Perkone
Caldari State
#6 - 2016-09-05 21:03:52 UTC
I use to do some heavy multiboxing and I would run 32-38 accounts on my PC just fine. The Specs were i7-4770k @ 4.5GHz, 32GB DDR3, 2x ATI 7870, and the game would run off a SSD. If I would you I would get a ATI RX 470 or RX 480 that has 8GB of VRAM, your CPU is fine and you got a nice amount of RAM for 20-25 accounts.
Caco De'mon
The Conference Elite
The Conference
#7 - 2016-09-06 00:11:20 UTC
Nex Killer wrote:
I would run 32-38 accounts


Shocked

*"See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand."
Eternus8lux8lucis
Guardians of the Gate
RAZOR Alliance
#8 - 2016-09-06 01:47:31 UTC
Caco De'mon wrote:
Nex Killer wrote:
I would run 32-38 accounts


Shocked

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I was never to that level mind you, the most I did is about 8 clients per computer on medium graphics to test it a few times to see. But I know that even with my hardware I wasnt at full capacity by any standards.Blink

Have you heard anything I've said?

You said it's all circling the drain, the whole universe. Right?

That's right.

Had to end sometime.
Demolishar
United Aggression
#9 - 2016-09-06 03:17:57 UTC
Adjust your software before you adjust your hardware.
I'm running 12 accounts just fine with low settings on:

Q6600 @ 3.2GHZ
4GB RAM
HD5770 x2
Antheria
VVV Enterprises
#10 - 2016-09-06 05:45:44 UTC
My current PC (built May 2012) handles 9 clients spread over 3 monitors on medium settings adequately. Specs are i7 3930k, 2 x Asus gtx 680 2GB with 16 GB RAM. I have no problem with lag, just the crappy internet speeds we get in Oz.

I am in the process of building a new PC to take advantage of the new 4K monitors. After some research I decided on the Asus GTX1080-8G video card. My local PC shop has part built the new box for me & they say it runs fine (although I have yet to try out EvE on it).

I can only suggest that you put as many dollars into the card as you can afford with a view towards future-proofing your investment. When I built my current PC over 4 years ago most of the gear was top end & it has served me faithfully ever since (& still does).
Cora Namoor
Anson Astrometrics And Assembly
#11 - 2016-09-06 16:29:28 UTC
I'm 4 boxing on max setting across 4 monitors and watching Internet streamed TV in a pop up on a Titan X smoothly. If I try 4 clients on Max and another Fps heavy game like Overwatch then I drop down to 40 fps.
Nex Killer
Perkone
Caldari State
#12 - 2016-09-06 17:33:46 UTC
Caco De'mon wrote:
Nex Killer wrote:
I would run 32-38 accounts


Shocked


Eternus8lux8lucis wrote:
Caco De'mon wrote:
Nex Killer wrote:
I would run 32-38 accounts


Shocked

Internet spaceships is serious business.Twisted



I was never to that level mind you, the most I did is about 8 clients per computer on medium graphics to test it a few times to see. But I know that even with my hardware I wasnt at full capacity by any standards.Blink


Ya at the time I was running a lot of Ice miners, but the isk was nice. I trained them all into ishtars and was running Havens and what not too. Was fun, but stopped when CCP did the change to multiboxing.
Bishop Bob
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#13 - 2016-09-06 21:20:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Bishop Bob
Antheria wrote:

I can only suggest that you put as many dollars into the card as you can afford with a view towards future-proofing your investment. When I built my current PC over 4 years ago most of the gear was top end & it has served me faithfully ever since (& still does).



'Future proofing' is a PC marketing fallacy. Most times you can buy a cheaper PC that will do what you need and upgrade it regularly for less than the initial purchase price of a 'future proof' PC. At the point of the first upgrade it will have better performance than the 'future proof' PC.

Most gamers don't understand how their hardware functions and they justify expensive items because 'it must be better', when there may be no benefit at all, or in some cases the more expensive item may have worse performance (hello hyper-threading). Note that hyper-threading is fine for Eve, as Eve doesn't max a single non-hyper-threaded core, but way too many people think it is additional cores.

As for GPUs for multi-boxing, I run 3 Eve clients on an i5 4670K, 16GB DDR3, 3GB R9 280X with 2560x1440 27" monitors and the first client uses 700MB of VRAM with each additional client using 500MB of VRAM. Windows used 450MB for a total of 2.2GB VRAM. For 5 clients, you'd only need a max of 3.4 GB if you are running at the same resolution as me. if you run at 1920x1080, it will be less, so a 3GB card will suffice. I've just fired up 5 clients and they seem to be running fine on 3GB. All settings are on High with Resource Cache and HDR enabled. AA is medium on 2 accounts and low on 3.

/edit: Brain attack, the 700MB VRAM is the Medium AA client, the 500MB VRAM are the low AA clients.

Note that a recent test with a 6GB AMD R9 390 and similar spec 4GB R9 290 showed that the max VRAM used on a 4K screen was 5GB and this gave a 2% FPS improvement over a 4GB card. The issue was that GPU couldn't actually process the data at the rate needed to use much more than 4GB; however, the newer NVidia cards will be faster than the R9 390.