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Tigrapoe
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Posted - 2008.05.22 13:40:00 -
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I'm tired of playing Eve on my Mac Powerbook (bootcamped to XP) as it just doesnt cut it with multiple accounts.
Time to get a desktop PC methinks. This machine will be used exclusively as an Eve box, along with maybe running some torrents as well. I dream of playing games like Crysis but never get round to it - Eve is an unforgiving mistress if you stray!
I have 3 accounts: PvP main, mothership alt, secondary pvp / hauler / afk mission runner altski. I'd like to be able to just leave all three on in windowed mode at all times and not have to log off the alts if my PvP main gets into a big fight etc. Ideally I'd like all of them to run Premium graphics but failing that, at least my PvP main.
Some of my questions I suppose are:
- What does Eve benefit the most from? VGA grunt? pure CPU?
- Is a quad core processor any more useful than dual core?
- What is the memory footprint of a single Eve client?
- What load would 3 Trinity Premium graphics clients place upon a system?
So far I'm thinking along the following lines:
- 4Gb DDR2-800 RAM
- 22" Samsung 1680 x 1050 TFT
- nVidia 8800GT VGA
- Western Digital 640Gb drive
and am unsure as to the CPU to get - tossing up, in order of speed:
- Intel E2200 (comes clocked at 2.66ghz, 1Mb cache)
- Intel Q6600 Quad Core 2.4Ghz (2 x 4Mb cache)
- Intel E8200 Penryn 2.66ghz dual core (6Mb cache, clocks too)
with whatever motherboards suits.
Obviously I'd like to keep costs to a reasonable level - want to get something that can do the job but dont want to waste funds on a high end machine that is far beyond what I need and is run of the mill 6 months later. I wont be running Vista - its pure evil. XP.
Any recommendations based upon my usage really appreciated... 
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Lt Blaylock
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Posted - 2008.05.22 14:50:00 -
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If you are willing to spend a few thousand, Have you taken a look at the EVE computers?
http://www.eve-online.com/offer/commodore/
If you use 3 accounts you may like to have 3 monitors too, one client in each one 
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DOC PIC
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Posted - 2008.05.22 15:23:00 -
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Edited by: DOC PIC on 22/05/2008 15:30:21
Edited by: DOC PIC on 22/05/2008 15:29:22
 Originally by: Tigrapoe
Edited by: Tigrapoe on 22/05/2008 14:39:28
I'm tired of playing Eve on my Mac Powerbook (bootcamped to XP) as it just doesnt cut it with multiple accounts.
Time to get a desktop PC methinks. This machine will be used exclusively as an Eve box, along with maybe running some torrents as well. I dream of playing games like Crysis but never get round to it - Eve is an unforgiving mistress if you stray!
I have 3 accounts: PvP main, mothership alt, secondary pvp / hauler / afk mission runner altski. I'd like to be able to just leave all three on in windowed mode at all times and not have to log off the alts if my PvP main gets into a big fight etc. Ideally I'd like all of them to run Premium graphics but failing that, at least my PvP main.
Some of my questions I suppose are:
- What does Eve benefit the most from? VGA grunt? pure CPU?
- Is a quad core processor any more useful than dual core for Eve?
- What is the memory footprint of a single Eve client?
- What load would 3 Trinity Premium graphics clients place upon a system?
So far I'm thinking along the following lines:
- 4Gb DDR2-800 RAM
- 22" Samsung 1680 x 1050 TFT
- nVidia 8800GT VGA
- Western Digital 640Gb drive
and am unsure as to the CPU to get - tossing up, in order of speed:
- Intel E2200 (comes clocked at 2.66ghz, 1Mb cache)
- Intel Q6600 Quad Core 2.4Ghz (2 x 4Mb cache)
- Intel E8200 Penryn 2.66ghz dual core (6Mb cache, clocks too)
with whatever motherboards suits.
Obviously I'd like to keep costs to a reasonable level - want to get something that can do the job but dont want to waste funds on a high end machine that is far beyond what I need and is run of the mill 6 months later. I wont be running Vista - its pure evil. XP.
Any recommendations based upon my usage really appreciated...
Ok on your stats
Ram ok unless board uses ddr3
Processor penryn 8300 or 9300-9450 quad
Card new 9800 might get the best or even 9800x2
Hardrive mabe 2 1for OS and second for eve
OS XP is still better then Vista
As for being outdated in 6 months ? They always are. But penryn and the 9800 are the latest .. And the 9300quad beat the 6600quad most of the time in tests.The 9450 is even better as it has 12m of cache.
I have a custom box
790i mb asus
9550 quad penryn
4 gig ddr
2 raptor hd
1 500 gig hd for storage
9800x2 vid card
cosmo coolmaste case
couple of fans no weird cooling runs quiet and cool running 4 eve instance and vent and itunes
Oooh xp pro.
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Terinnon
German Trading Association
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Posted - 2008.05.24 18:30:00 -
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take the Q6600...
its the best deal atm...
Penry dont makes any sense, because in the second half of 2008 comes nehalem the new architecture from intel so penryn is already outdatet...
the q6600 cost the same as the 8400 and u got 4 cores with a huge clocking potential...
i personaly run a Q6600 with 3,2ghz (400mhz FSB x8) in Sisoft Sandra i got exact the same performance as a 9770 (1400$ CPU)
so the q6600 is the best to use until nehalem arrives :)
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