EVE New Citizens Q&A

GPU intensive. Definitely GPU intensive.

And make sure that...

- your case remains free of air obstructions for maximum cooling (hint: take off the panel on the "off" side of the case... you see those holes? You can route long wires back there to keep them from blocking airflow)

- there is a balance between the "vents" versus the "intakes"
This is a common newbie computer builder mistake. Most people will try to slap on as many intake fans as possible. You want to have as many fans venting hot air out as you do fans blowing cooler air in... with a bias more towards hot air being vented out.

- airflow is continuous and follows a steady "stream."
By this I mean... do not put a venting fan right right above the intake of an internal fan (like the CPU or GPU). Doing this will tax the fans and possibly rob cooler air from the fans that need it most.


Now here is my current setup (off the top of my head, so I may have some things incorrect) so you have an idea on what to aim for:

- AMD Phenom X4 (yes... it is old... shaddap!!)
---- massive aftermarket CPU copper fan
- 16 GB DDR2 RAM
- generic MSI motherboard
- Rosewell 1000w PCU
- NVIDIA GTX 760
- 650 Gb Western Digital HDD 7200rpm
- 1 TB Western Digital HDD 7200rpm

- ANTEC 900 case (♥)


I can run a single client with medium-high settings with minimal lag... even in fleet fights.

I am not an expert on airflow within computers but I am on airflow within ventilation systems. I understand that computer fans are dealing with far lower pressure drops however it is easier to push air than to pull air. The reason being that when you try to suck air it drops in pressure meaning lower concentration of air molecules. This makes the fan contact less air with every rotation and thus become less effective.

When you add on the fact that things like PSUs ( Power Supply Units) and GFX cards have their own fans blowing out of the case then it would seem that you want to bias towards more cases fans blowing in.

I personally have experienced problems with a pair of SLI GTX 280s overheating when my case fans were matched with 2 blowing in and 2 blowing out. Just shutting off one of the out going fans solved the problem but I eventually also added another intake so that it was 3 fans feeding air into my case and 1 case fan blowing out.

I personally try and create a positive pressure inside every computer case that I build. This can be easily tested by placing a small piece of tissue paper over any passive opening on your case and if it blows out your case if positive and if it sucks in then your case is negative.

However I also typically use filters and they reduce in air flow as they get dirty so I am typically heavily over feeding air into my cases so that as the filters get dirty I still have enough incoming air.

While some of the above is factual most of it is my personal preference take it for what it is worth.

Eve will run - albeit very slowly - on an old Acer Aspire 1 netbook with a dual core Celeron processor. I still use it occasionally to update PI or market orders if I'm out of town. Undocking with that configuration is not recommended!

Eve runs extremely well on an AMD FX8350 with 8Gb RAM, GTX 770 and an SSD. I can easily run 4 clients on 3 1920x1080 monitors with maximum settings. This hardware is now 2-3 years old.

Eve does not appear to be CPU intensive - put your money into a good quality SSD and a mid-range DX11 graphics card.

US dollars, obviously. Only US-Americans are so arrogant to believe the entire world revolves around them.

That was my thought but I was too polite to say it out loud

I'm not tech savvie but over the decade I've played EVE on around 4 different shop built systems and can see barely any differences between any of them heh! It's over a decade old game and I can see your only bottlenecks would be trying to run multiple accounts simultaneously. Dx9 will stop being supported soon by ccp so not sure if that will affect specs your considering. Might be a laugh googling the original specs required to run EVE. Everything must surpass that now.

basically, any smartphone under a couple years old could probably run EVE.[/quote

Lol... OP seriously tho if budget is a major factor you don't have to spend a lot to run EVE effectively. How unhappy are you with running EVE now? Unless your running it currently on a really old machine I can't see you getting much of a performance boost from what you have now

Can you justify spending money on a machine just for a few more frames a second or something a little more future proof? Like I said I've played EVE on maybe 4 or 5 off the shelf machines and I'll be buggered if I see any difference. I'd hate you to be disappointed after spending your money

I did the same sort of thing on a laptop that I primarily used for EFT and dotlan maps. I called it my EvE Calculator, and would warn my corp mates when "i was logging on with my calculator."

This game is, technically, GPU-intensive, but honestly it's not as intensive as, say, Skyrim, and that's a couple years old now. So you can build a computer that runs EVE at max settings for, not a lot. I'm not sure about $500, but $900 - $1200 will definitely get you there.

The biggest item will be the video card; it'll be a big chunk of that budget, but go for an Nvidia GTX 980 Ti or GTX 1070, or whatever the equivalent is from AMD.

As far as building computers, not sure what vendors you're using for parts. Most people use newegg.com I think, because you can read user reviews and get an idea about any potential problems with the parts. In any case:

- match the CPU socket type (the pins on it) with the type of motherboard
- match the memory type with the motherboard
- get a good computer case with a sturdy build and plenty of air flow (the bigger diameter on the fans the less whiny they'll be)

- get a good internal power supply

- get whichever video card you want to use

- and then don't forget the miscellaneous, but necessary: hard drives / SSD drives, dvd/blue ray drive, keyboard, mouse, Windows operating system software, displays.

- and also extras, if any: ultra-quiet fans to replace the standard ones that come in the case, neon lighting, a better heat sink for the processor (the one that's in the Intel box may or may not be all that great), thermal paste to attach it, speakers, microphone (for voice coms), any other software that you need licenses for.

See! See! Even an abacus will run eve!