EVE General Discussion

I run two clients on an i7 with 8gb RAM and 1GB dedicated video. It handles two clients pretty easily on medium settings.

Check at SAMs club or Costco if you have a membership to either. I got the aforementioned laptop for 800 instead of 1500 due to it being the shelf model. They will cut crazy deals like that all the time.


As for a computer more to your budget, I would worry about the processor and RAM first and foremost, and then worry about the video card. If you end up with a low resolution screen, the video card isn't going to need to be as powerful (you are still going to want some dedicated video though).

I would stay far away from Gateway, Compaq, Acer, Toshiba, and Sony. Having worked in a comp repair shop for 7 years, I saw nothing but problems with those, and in the case of ACER and Gateway, they were having issues within a year. (Granted the people using them were not the brightest individuals, but still.)

Where are you mining at and what ships do u use????

It does not get excessively hot, runs great and stays pretty cool, I take it to LAN parties and will game for 12 hours straight no problem. The microphone is in a really annoying spot, you end up resting your left hand over it while typing so your always lifting your left hand off the keyboard to talk in vent, very bad design choice, I ended up pugging in an external mic for heavy vent necessary gaming sessions. The laptop is light and sleek though.

If you do go with this Lenovo, make sure you register it WITH Lenovo when you get it to start the warranty over, it's a software program that runs on initial start-up. If you don't you will lose several months of the warranty. Once you register it online, you'll get a e-mail confirmation of the registration and the official start date of the warranty.

You can't trick the system like the old days and "wait" to register then start the warranty. The laptop comes with a warranty that starts when "that ebay guy" buys it from Lenovo and starts ticking down and then "re-starts" once you register it, if you wait too long, you'll miss the window to register after he's sold it.

Good luck!

So here is what I went with

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834312446

Lenovo IdeaPad U510

6GB DDR3 (Upgradeable to 8GB)
Intel Core i5-3337U 1.8GHz
1TB HDD+24GB SSD (just enough room on SSD for a game)
Intel HD Graphics 4000 (Video Memory is shared)

Thats the gist of its guts. I dear the touchpad is crap but I plan to use a mouse anyway

What do you folks think?

So then I guess Its safe to say I should be fine with this laptop that I just bought. It looks like I will be testing its limits to seeing how I just bought 2 more accounts.

No I would only be running 4, at the most, but generally I hope this machine can handle 3

You will have to turn the settings way down with the integrated graphics for 3 clients (depending on how you deal with FPS dips). With a OC'd 3930k, 16GB, and a GTX 580 3GB I have to start turning settings down after 3 clients to hold 60 FPS on all of them.

Also, keep in mind since the GPU is on-die there is going to be extra heat generated from the processor, this will put you into a throttled state quicker and possibly cause it to overheat and shutdown since that computer is not built with the expectation of running multiple 3d accelerated applications. With the IGPU get a cooling mat so the processor doesn't start throttling while you play. Another thing you should be aware of is that the GPU is going to be using your system RAM, with 3 clients open (again Max settings) I am sitting at 2.2GB of VRAM usage, this is going to cut into the RAM available to the OS. I'm guessing here but you should probably expect 768mb-1gb of RAM usage with lowest settings on 3 clients. Really you should get something with a dedicated card if you plan on running more than 2 clients. Sure, EVE is such a light weight game that you can probably get away with it but the experience is not going to be optimal.

I like that better than the aspire posted earlier. These days 8gb of ram is a must especially for chrome users. I don't know much about the AMD processor lineup, but the processor doesn't matter that much for gaming. The better video card will help with rendering multiple clients in windowed mode. Check the HDD speed on that (7200 rpm is your minimum) and also if it has an option to install an ssd. Having eve on an ssd will help with alt-tabbing between windows in full screen.

As for minimum amount of ram, think of it as 2GB per client + 2GB for system. So 4GB for 1 client, 6GB for 2 clients, 8GB for three clients, and so on.

As for the idea pad, that 24 gb ssd will not have room for the game. That's for the OS only, and you will not want to put any programs on it because it will risk slowing down boot times. 120gb SSD minimum if you're planning on installing any programs on it. You need to leave about 20% of the ssd's space free to avoid performance loss from my understanding. 120 - 120*.2 - 30 (OS), will leave you with 60 gb or so free. You *could* drop to a 60 gm, but that seems like its cutting it close.