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Midget Mafia

Midget Mafia

Midget Mafia

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My current PC broadly consists of:

Dell 2560x1440 TFT
Intel i5 3570K @ 3.4GHz
16GB DDR3 RAM
nVidia GTX 1070

I wish to run 6-10 clients at the same time at 2560x1440 (or windowed 1920 x 1080 would be acceptable) and can’t at the moment without lag when switching between each client instance and unacceptable performance. I don’t want to have to use minimum graphics settings either.

What do I need to change with current hardware to do what I want?

Ta.
 
Midget Mafia said:
My current PC broadly consists of:

Dell 2560x1440 TFT
Intel i5 3570K @ 3.4GHz
16GB DDR3 RAM
nVidia GTX 1070

I wish to run 6-10 clients at the same time at 2560x1440 (or windowed 1920 x 1080 would be acceptable) and can’t at the moment without lag when switching between each client instance and unacceptable performance. I don’t want to have to use minimum graphics settings either.

What do I need to change with current hardware to do what I want?

Ta.
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been a while since i did eve, learnt to run at 1080p and alt-tab to other account in full windowed mode.
Also what are your clients doing ? if its mining not to taxing, if your in combat then more stress is applied (use to mine in low sec - with command ship , few T2 miners and one cruiser with a few friends and their alts)

techically your specs are fine. SSD is important - for once in gaming- NMVe can come in handy if there's a lot of clients due to having to read for multiple clients etc .

overclock your CPU! should make a big difference and again running at 1080p
 
So I want to use them for ganking. But on combat they only have to approach and shoot, so not taxing.

1080P is fine, no problem.

In terms of overclocking, what multiplier/clock frequency settings to use and what figure should I aim for?
 
Albeit haven't tried with more recent versions of the game but I ran upto IIRC 6 clients at a time on my 4820K and never saw any struggling as far as CPU went and that was at 4GHz as for Eve I was more concerned about stability than performance i.e. if you are the triage carrier (now FAX :( ) the fleet is depending on the last thing you need is to crash out.

The lack of cores on the i5 and without even hyper-threading to make it up is gonna hurt though - I think 4 cores is going to be severely limiting you here though I can't be totally sure.
 
Rroff said:
Albeit haven't tried with more recent versions of the game but I ran upto IIRC 6 clients at a time on my 4820K and never saw any struggling as far as CPU went and that was at 4GHz as for Eve I was more concerned about stability than performance i.e. if you are the triage carrier (now FAX :( ) the fleet is depending on the last thing you need is to crash out.

The lack of cores on the i5 and without even hyper-threading to make it up is gonna hurt though - I think 4 cores is going to be severely limiting you here though I can't be totally sure.
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So if I decide to upgrade motherboard. CPU and RAM, what should I go for? I have no clue about all of that stuff nowadays...
 
I'm a bit out of the loop when it comes to Eve these days so not sure what architectures it works best with but if you are set on running 6-10 clients then ideally you'd want something like an 8/16 core/thread CPU at least either AMD's Ryzen or Skylake X :( (Skylake X being a bit expensive for what it is) I'm not sure the 6/12 i7 like the 8700K would give as good smoothness with multiple client instances even with the extra MHz but I can't be sure on that or how well the game runs on AMD CPUs.
 
Midget Mafia said:
Thanks Rroff! I'll do some more digging around :)
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had a look around. seems during fights specially, its more single cores based, and more clients seem to be assigned a single core. and core speed its the greater factor .

keeping costs down, looks like intel 8700 non K which has an all 6 core boost of 4.3ghz and 12 threads. unless you maunally overclock ryzen 2700/2700x to 4.2ghz.

it 8700k being able to be overclocked to 4.9ghz+ on all 6 cores would have the advantage
 
orbitalwalsh said:
had a look around. seems during fights specially, its more single cores based, and more clients seem to be assigned a single core. and core speed its the greater factor .

keeping costs down, looks like intel 8700 non K which has an all 6 core boost of 4.3ghz and 12 threads. unless you maunally overclock ryzen 2700/2700x to 4.2ghz.

it 8700k being able to be overclocked to 4.9ghz+ on all 6 cores would have the advantage
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Yeah be interesting to see some proper data - the engine originates out of something fairly old with a lot of single core scripting going on beneath the hood but how that manifest with multiple clients I'm not too sure these days. It was one of the reasons I went for a more workstation type architecture at the time.
 
orbitalwalsh said:
had a look around. seems during fights specially, its more single cores based, and more clients seem to be assigned a single core. and core speed its the greater factor .

keeping costs down, looks like intel 8700 non K which has an all 6 core boost of 4.3ghz and 12 threads. unless you maunally overclock ryzen 2700/2700x to 4.2ghz.

it 8700k being able to be overclocked to 4.9ghz+ on all 6 cores would have the advantage
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I don't understand the difference between K and non-K, but I'll have a look. Is there a particular motherboard I should choose?

Sorry for the questions :(
 
Midget Mafia said:
I don't understand the difference between K and non-K, but I'll have a look. Is there a particular motherboard I should choose?

Sorry for the questions :(
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K chips are unlocked meaning they can be overclocked- but need a Z chipset board to allow overclocking. (intel runs hot)
ryzen, all CPUs and B and X chipset boards allow overclocking .
 
orbitalwalsh said:
K chips are unlocked meaning they can be overclocked- but need a Z chipset board to allow overclocking. (intel runs hot)
ryzen, all CPUs and B and X chipset boards allow overclocking .
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Thanks so much, that's much clearer. I didn't realise AMD still made CPUs, I have had a few in the past (K6-2, Athlon etc.) - lots to read up :)
 
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