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Gentle Behn
Grey Templars
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Posted - 2009.07.01 17:15:00 -
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Edited by: Gentle Behn on 01/07/2009 17:21:07 Computers are not my field, but i've come to this channel because i hope to meet players who are far more upto speed.
Having looked at the recommened system requirements for eve i find it hard to believe i'm going to get the best of the game with them:
# OS: Windows« System XP / Vista # CPU: Intel Pentium« or AMD dual core @ 2 GHz # RAM: 2 GB # HD space: 6 GB Free Space # Video: 256 MB Shader Model 3.0 Graphics cards such as GeForce 8 class card or higher, ATi 3000 series or higher and Similar chips from other manufacturers # Network: ADSL connection or faster
Especially running two clients and monitors.
The question is what is the minimum system requirements to run eve hell for leather, with two clients and not grinding to a hault when encountering blobs.
Also are there mother boards that love Eve? I don't know do you?
Your perfect, economi no fat on these rigs (there is a recession on!) fits in the space below please?
I will buy the winning set up
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Ix Forres
Caldari Vanguard Frontiers Sc0rched Earth
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Posted - 2009.07.01 20:00:00 -
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Originally by: Gentle Behn Edited by: Gentle Behn on 01/07/2009 17:21:07 Computers are not my field, but i've come to this channel because i hope to meet players who are far more upto speed.
Having looked at the recommened system requirements for eve i find it hard to believe i'm going to get the best of the game with them:
# OS: Windows« System XP / Vista # CPU: Intel Pentium« or AMD dual core @ 2 GHz # RAM: 2 GB # HD space: 6 GB Free Space # Video: 256 MB Shader Model 3.0 Graphics cards such as GeForce 8 class card or higher, ATi 3000 series or higher and Similar chips from other manufacturers # Network: ADSL connection or faster
Especially running two clients and monitors.
The question is what is the minimum system requirements to run eve hell for leather, with two clients and not grinding to a hault when encountering blobs.
Also are there mother boards that love Eve? I don't know do you?
Your perfect, economi no fat on these rigs (there is a recession on!) fits in the space below please?
I will buy the winning set up
I'd say XP for now (or Linux if you're feeling adventurous); Vista/7 aren't stable enough and frankly give you little advantage. You may wish to consider 64-bit XP if you go for a lot of RAM.
RAM-wise you're probably fine with 2 gigs, but 4 would give you more breathing space.
CPU.. well, Intel is a personal preference, a low-end quad core (2.4Ghz per core or so) would be plenty.
nVidia boards again a personal preference- I use an old 8800GTS and rarely have issues running 2 clients, you might consider something a little punchier according to preference/budget.
Mainboards aren't all that important; just get something that has all the right ins and outs. Asus are a long time favourite brand, can't fault them for stability and they're typically quite competitively priced, too.
Oh, and HDDs: Cheap is _never_ good. I'd recommend a Samsung (WD/Seagate/Maxtor I'd avoid out of personal bad experiences), maybe 250 gigs in size for your primary drive. You can always bolt on more storage later if you need to. Get a fast drive with plenty of cache, basically.
Seperate sound and network cards are recommended (less for the mainboard to do) but according to cost restraints you may choose not to. Avoid Creative if you can find a decent alternative, for the love of god. Driver/support hell, and the hardware's insanely overpriced for the absolute pieces of extrement they ship. Terribad noise levels and shocking quality DACs. -- Ix Forres EVE Application Developer Charactr (NEW) | EVE Metrics | I Tweet |
Rilwar
BlackStar Industrial
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Posted - 2009.07.01 20:28:00 -
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Originally by: Ix Forres
Mainboards aren't all that important
... Motherboards are just about the singly most important piece of hardware you're buying. It controls I/O to every device, if you skimp there you're gimping your entire computer.
Originally by: Ix Forres I'd recommend a Samsung (WD/Seagate/Maxtor I'd avoid out of personal bad experiences)
Sounds more like a fanboi comment.
I've been running the same pair of IDE WD 80GB Caviar drives for over 5 years in a NAS box with exactly 0 issues, through dozens of full formats, not deleting the MFT and calling it good, but overwriting every sector numerous times. I've got another WD SATA 320GB Drive I've been using for all game installs for 3 or 4 years now, it gets defragged to directory order nightly, it's never failed once.
Avoid anything Linksys for networking, most Linksys products will fail within a few years of purchase, most within a year, and that's quite common knowledge across any spectrum.
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Ix Forres
Caldari Vanguard Frontiers Sc0rched Earth
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Posted - 2009.07.01 21:25:00 -
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Originally by: Rilwar
Originally by: Ix Forres
Mainboards aren't all that important
... Motherboards are just about the singly most important piece of hardware you're buying. It controls I/O to every device, if you skimp there you're gimping your entire computer.
Originally by: Ix Forres I'd recommend a Samsung (WD/Seagate/Maxtor I'd avoid out of personal bad experiences)
Sounds more like a fanboi comment.
Hence the bit about personal bad experiences. It's more like an inverse fanboi comment. I did say so.
Yes, you can't skimp on the mainboard. I would have thought that was bloody obvious merely that the differences between brands are often not that huge, and it's more or less down to picking something with the right sockets that performs well. It's not a 'pick the one at your price point' decision. Sorry I didn't clarify that. -- Ix Forres EVE Application Developer Charactr (NEW) | EVE Metrics | I Tweet |
Lork Niffle
Gallente
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Posted - 2009.07.03 21:48:00 -
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I run 2 clients easily on a x1300 radeon with 2GB of ram currently running Win7 with all visual effects turned on.
The main thing for more than 1 client is to ensure you have at least 1.3GB of RAM free when your system is fully booted. Ensure that resource caching is turned off if you do experience memory problems.
The Motherboard does not gimp you as much as you think but don't go for any low end chipset on it. I'm on a pico-BTX board running some crazy low chipset and have experience performance problems on the 3rd to 4th client running.
For blob warfare or certainly bigger experiences i would opt for 3GB RAM total and a graphics card being the 37xx/47xx and up from ATi and a 97xx/260 from nvidia. Just work up there until it hits your budget limit. Ensure that your RAM is DDR2 800MHz for smoother experiences when tabbing between clients. DDR3 ddoes not take part until you reach Phenom II or i7 CPUs which will be at least $1500/ś1000 adn the improvement is minimul.
For HD a 7200 Seagate/WD/barracuda is best i generally not go for Maxtor. a 320GB single platter offers best performance.
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illford baker
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Posted - 2009.07.04 06:00:00 -
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Edited by: illford baker on 04/07/2009 06:05:05 i am running 2 clients max settings and get good FPS from 4 gigs of memory. and this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102719 and a core 2 duo overclocked to 3.4 GHz, with the vid card overclocked also. not sure how it will handle big fleet but this has stood up to jita without noticeable changes. if you are gonna be doing huge fleet on both monitors with max settings i would get another 3870 to Xfire, if your mobo can do it. and i would go windows 7 64 bit. i am running it now and would not think of going back to XP
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Gentle Behn
Grey Templars
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Posted - 2009.07.05 10:28:00 -
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Thank you all for your comments.
I think where i'm really struggling is in selecting a mother board and chip set. As has been said it's the what brings everything else together. And i have no idea what makes a good motherboard and set and what makes a bad one.
I mean eve is a huge data base game so what will fish into that data base fast and efficent.
Now that i say that i'm thing what should i be thinking about the connection equipment?
Maybe i should go back to my XBOX
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Thrymren
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Posted - 2009.07.07 11:05:00 -
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Edited by: Thrymren on 07/07/2009 11:05:15 hmmm i'll galdly give you my specs, maybe that helps you a little.. Intel core 2 Duo E8500 (standard clocked @ 3.16 or something ghz) Asus P5Q Mainboard 4gb of OCZ 1066mhz ddr2 memory several samsung spinpoint f1 750gb harddisks Ati Radeon HD 4870 Graphics card with 1gb video memory (gddr5) cheap ass internet connection dsl 2k or something... it sucks. i'm running 2 or 3 clients all the time in window mode, monitor 1: 23" 1920+1080 monitor 2: 22" 1680x1050 while running these clients i often download stuff or watch streaming web tv, eve obviously doesn't use a lot of bandwith. My clients are running on all settings maxed, brackets off. No Lags or anything come to my attention yet. When i was doing big fleetfights in 0sec i disabled drone models, but thats it... runs smooth for me.
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Drangnar
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Posted - 2009.07.07 13:34:00 -
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This post cuts it pretty specific, but, i think ill mention actual matters of price here. I'm assuming you already have 2 moniters, or at least any monitor at all.
If you look to actually put together a system, tigerdirect has some pretty nice combo deals that include the mobo and all the other parts you may want; one for about $900 includes everything but the graphics card and OS, and it comes with an i7 proc, 12GB ram, 1TB HD, case... you get the idea
*please don't consider this advertising, I'm just saying, i was able to put together a gaming machine for under $1200, yet to see a framerate drop in any game (put a 260GTX in it, windows 7 release candidate is pretty stable)
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