Want to buy a pc that can play four Eve Online accounts on four separate monitors at the same time.

ladrial · 19 Jun 2011 at 18:14

Well I guess the title says it all. I want to buy/build a pc that will be able to play four eve on-line accounts at the same time on four separate monitors with one pc. The game is due a fairly major overhaul in the next few weeks as well that may affect requirements.

I have a wide budget from £1000-£3000. This is because I'm being told so many different things that has literally thousands between price tags. Of course I don't want to be spending money just for the sake of it on overpriced components that are just very slightly better than ones with half the price tag.

At first I was even looking at playing all four accounts on one plasma screen TV but that was said to be a bad idea.

I am also not wanting to buy something that will need upgrading all the time. At the top end of my budget I would like to include and extras like speakers, screens, keyboard, mouse etc. and it seems I may as well include a DVD/Blue ray so the Mrs can watch it.

Thanks in advance, from a very confused EVE On-line Fan!

panyan · 19 Jun 2011 at 18:21

LOL

"Ultima Mosasaur" Intel Core i7 2600K 3.40GHz @ 4.60GHz DDR3 Sandybridge System £979.98

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Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £79.99

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Overclock selected £20.00

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Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GLC-00736) £149.99

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OCZ Agility 3 120GB 2.5" SATA-3 Solid State Hard Drive (AGT3-25SAT3-120G) £174.98

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MSI ATI Radeon HD 6950 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £224.99

Logitech Z906 5.1 Surround Sound Speaker System - 500W RMS (980-000469) £329.00

Iiyama ProLite E2410HDSD 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black Iiyama ProLite E2410HDSD 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black £149.99 £599.96

Logitech G19 Gaming Keyboard (920-000978) £99.98

Razer DeathAdder Respawn 3500dpi Xtreme Precision Gaming Mouse - Retail £42.98

Total : £2,728.08

95thrifles · 19 Jun 2011 at 18:27

yep the above would pretty much cover it, or a similar self build
Edit: though no need to spend so much on the peripherals, can get just as good for half the price, just cos you got 3K dont mean you have to spend it all

Surveyor · 19 Jun 2011 at 18:39

Two active mini DisplayPort to DVI adapters will be needed to run 4 Iiyama ProLite E2410HDSD's from a 6950.

Orcvader · 19 Jun 2011 at 18:53

Another option, depending on which Z68 board the Ultima Mosasaur have, if it has Lucid Virtu then you can also add two displays to the board, which can save you cash from buying a couple of active DP->DVI adapters.

Combined with the 6950's ability to display up to 6 monitors and the Z68, you can have up to 8 displays :eek:

Surveyor · 19 Jun 2011 at 18:56

Orcvader said:
Another option, depending on which Z68 board the Ultima Mosasaur have, if it has Lucid Virtu then you can also add two displays to the board, which can save you cash from buying a couple of active DP->DVI adapters.

Combined with the 6950's ability to display up to 6 monitors and the Z68, you can have up to 8 displays

Is the onboard GPU going to be able to run 2 instances of eve-online?

Orcvader · 19 Jun 2011 at 19:01

Surveyor said:
Is the onboard GPU going to be able to run 2 instances of eve-online?

No idea...

. But with Virtu it should move the workload to the 6950. I have moved my second monitor to the IGP to allow lower idle temps and can confirm Virtu does indeed still use my discrete 6850 for gaming.

EDIT: Just a note it doesn't work for all games, so no idea if Eve will be fine, but Lucid are still updating their Virtu drivers every now and then with more support for more applications.

ladrial · 19 Jun 2011 at 19:04

Thanks for the advice I hope those speakers will run a nightclub at that price!! The rest off the system makes sense will that one graphics card be ok? Would I be better of with the"Ultima Tyrannosaur" Intel Core i7 2600K 3.40GHz @ 4.60GHz DDR3 Sandybridge System, but spending less on the extra bits like the speakers, mouse and keyboard. I mean long term?

Surveyor · 19 Jun 2011 at 19:06

Orcvader said:
No idea... . But with Virtu it should move the workload to the 6950. I have moved my second monitor to the IGP to allow lower idle temps and can confirm Virtu does indeed still use my discrete 6850 for gaming.

If it moves the workload to the 6950 then surely it can't output an image from the 6950 via the motherboard's display connectors?

Or have I got how this works wrong?

Orcvader · 19 Jun 2011 at 19:09

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4199/...egrateddiscrete-gpu-on-sandy-bridge-platforms

If you read here, then yes it does. It also works vice versa as well, so you can use the IGP if you only have one monitor connected to the discrete.

@ladrial the 6950 should be enough for 4 Eve clients, but I can't say for sure since I have no experience with Eve. Perhaps you can try see how it feels with one 6950, then add another 6950 if you feel you require the extra power?

Surveyor · 19 Jun 2011 at 19:16

Orcvader said:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4199/...egrateddiscrete-gpu-on-sandy-bridge-platforms

If you read here, then yes it does. It also works vice versa as well, so you can use the IGP if you only have one monitor connected to the discrete.

According to this quote though you don't connect the GPU to the monitor so it wouldn't seem to fit the OP's purpose:

Start with a platform that supports Sandy Bridge's processor graphics (H6x or Z68) and connect your display to the motherboard's video out. Add in a supported discrete GPU, supply power but don't connect your monitor to it.

You would only have the output from the motherboard.

ladrial · 19 Jun 2011 at 19:39

Thanks for the advice I hope those speakers will run a nightclub at that price!!

The rest off the system makes sense will that one graphics card be ok? Would I be better of with the"Ultima Tyrannosaur" Intel Core i7 2600K 3.40GHz @ 4.60GHz DDR3 Sandybridge System, but spending less on the extra bits like the speakers, mouse and keyboard. I mean long term?

Orcvader · 19 Jun 2011 at 21:31

Surveyor said:
According to this quote though you don't connect the GPU to the monitor so it wouldn't seem to fit the OP's purpose:

You would only have the output from the motherboard.

Well it works for me, playing SC2 on the monitor connected to the Z68 still uses my 6850 (I doubt the HD 3000 can run SC2 on max detail

). My current setup is primary connected to the 6850, and secondary on the IGP. Did this because adding the second monitor to the 6850 boosts idle temps by 12c :eek:

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oliver2601 · 20 Jun 2011 at 05:24

Save yourself £30 and get the speakers from the big rain forest.

theukmoog · 20 Jun 2011 at 11:32

I'd ask about required spec and options in these two places:

EVE subforum on dual-boxing...
http://www.dual-boxing.com//forumdisplay.php?f=36

and the ISBoxer subforum for EVE...
http://isboxer.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=8

If you're not using ISBoxer to multi-box then how the hell are you playing 4 accounts?!?!

Playing with 4 screens is going to give you a headache moving your head around to see the detail on each.

I 5-box WoW with 2 x 24" screens and use ISBoxer. This allows me to have my current client at 1920x1200 on screen 1 and the other 4 tiled on screen 2 - when I need to do something on client 2/3/4/5, ISBoxer swaps it into screen 1 and instantly resizes it to 1920x1200. I rarely have to look at screen 2 in detail.

I don't play Eve, so don't know if ISBoxer can do exactly the same things for you, but you should investigate it, as it may well make your life a *lot* easier!