Internet Knight
The Kobayashi Maru
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Posted - 2011.06.05 23:13:00 -
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Edited by: Internet Knight on 05/06/2011 23:14:34
Originally by: Ladrial I dont mind paying quite a bit of money for it IF it does what i want it to do!
Nothing wrong with that.
Originally by: Ladrial I want the new pc to be able to run 4+ accounts at the same time, so I can see them all at once and click on any of them with the mouse.
No offense, but you should get your priorities in order. That said, you don't require a supercomputer by today's standards. You do require something definitely above average.
All that being said, I have an i7 920 at stock speed, 18 GB DDR3 RAM, and a Radeon 4890 with dual 23" 1080p monitors. It runs two accounts fairly nicely. I seem to have an issue with one account not loading graphics properly, but I suspect that's just a "reset your cache" issue (and really a reset your cache issue and not one of those reset your cache issue because we don't care to look into the issue further).
I would say a core i7 (higher number is better if you don't want to overclock) on a 1366 socket and NOT an 1156. The technical reason here is because that typically enables you to have triple-channel RAM instead of dual-channel RAM, which means more data transfer from RAM to the CPU for the clock cycle. It's possible but very rare in my experience to have triple channel on 1156 socket. I'd go with a minimum of 12 GB RAM, but more is better. I definitely agree that four instances of eve means four monitors. Unfortunately that requires you to go dual video card or better as well. I'm not partial to Intel, but I've never used AMD processors, so I couldn't tell you what to go there.
I'm an ATI fanboi, so I'd say a dual Radeon 6xxx series. The higher number is better, and each individual number means a different thing. The first digit is the technology series, the second number is basically the speed of the card and the third number is basically the speed of the video RAM. Pick something you like. If unlimited money is the budget, then definitely a dual 6990. Whatever you pick, make sure you pick something where both cards have 2GB or more video RAM. Good luck with that. I don't know anything about Nvidia cards (a shame, because a real fan should know the competition).
As for operating system, definitely Windows 7. I personally would go Ultimate just because I use my computer That Much to necessitate it, but whatever version floats your boat as long as it's 64 bit Windows 7. If you don't go 64 bit, you won't be able to access the rest of your RAM and you therefore won't have enough RAM to run all four instances.
Anyways, that's my two cents for stock speeds. If you're not opposed to overclocking, then that's another matter. I personally overclocked my RAM to 1333MHz (Intel Core iX seems to think that DDR3 @ 1066MHz is plenty fast enough, even though there's tons of RAM rated to as high as 1600MHz without a significant price it).
In all, we're looking at in the range of $3000 to $4000 depending on specifics (monitor and video card choice being the key factor in price IMO). ---
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