EVE General Discussion

The title pretty much says it all. I'm a relatively new player who's been playing on a MacBook Air and getting a little tired of it. Between the low-res and graphic settings, the loud ass noise and the heat, I'd really like to get a computer thats capable of playing EVE on max or close to it. I started buying components for a computer build 2 years ago, and got sidetracked with life issues, so I never finished it. I'd like to use what I already have to finish it. I have a motherboard, (Gigabyte z97x-SLI) which has a LGA1150 socket. I need a CPU that can handle EVE that won't break the bank. I'm thinking around 200-250 or less if possible. I also need a Video Card. Other than that, i'm all set. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thank you! o7

There used to be a techno-offtopic forum section somewhere..

Anyway... Prepare to dunk at least 250$ on an i7. Also RAM is quite expensive and you need at least 8gb, even used (I made profit selling old ram recently lol). As for gpu, factory overclocked gtx 770 should do the trick if you want max price/performance although to make better use of your cpu I'd recommend something like 780 Ti or 970 if you find good deal.

Another option is to go nerd style and buy used server gear. You would have to hunt a bit and read your motherboard compatibility list but I'm 97,7% sure most Xeons and ECC ram should work. It could easily shave 100-200$ off your bill.


I assume that's for 1080p and not 3 monitors in 4k +streaming. Also no matter the hardware, it won't help in a big blob fight. Smaller blobs, up to few hundred should be fine.


@Recommended settings are outdated. 1gb vram was a thing in 2007 and 4gb ram barely satisfies some of today's browsers. It's good to have the option to launch a few tabs and open another app while playing eve and not worry about stability.

Im playing without a gpu thanks to the power of a i7 6700k.

NOT MAX SETTINGS THO

EVE on max graphics on 3 monitors,
CPU wont be your bottleneck, I used to use an i5-3470 and it ran no problem, just sold it on ebay for about $100 to upgrade it to the i5-3570K for overclocking adventures :P

Graphics will be your main bottleneck, i use a 2GB ASUS GTX960 card and its a little overkill for some things, by now a comparable card is prolly around $200.

RAM would be nice to be around 16GB, but I ran on 8 for awhile and it was no problem.

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Havent really noticed the difference between a HDD and an SSD for EvE, but hell, theyre so cheap now why not?

while I agree that if you build a new PC it never hurts to invest into RAM, the OP asked about specs to run 1 EVE client. EVE is a 32bit Application and can therefore only address up to 4GB of RAM anyway so for this usecase, more RAM will do absolutely nothing.

Because Eve is single threaded a higher CPU speed is preferable if only running one client. So in this case a super fast even dual core processor will be better than a slower quad core. For other games and applications the quad core is better but for purely Eve the faster processor is best.

Tbh I think i7s are overkill for Eve and have run i5s and less for years quite effectively. Now depending on the new code base additions there might be changes coming where a different spec is required or should say more optimal. And yeah more RAM is always good. I would also suggest some of the better older GFX cards as you can get the same or similar performance for much less cost. I purchased an older used card and saved almost $200 off an 8GB card.

What? Internet connection a bottleneck? Its not 1997 anymore lol
I can run 4 clients via the internet of my mobile phone. In a rural area.