PC advice

[Andreauk]

I wanted to 5 box Rift but will def need a new pc. I'd like to run the main window on a decent /medium setting with the other 4 with the low quality renderer..


Now what pc spec would I need and what card?

Want to keep cost down as much as possible.

Many thanks

[Oatboat]

i can run 4 on a i7 920 with a decent card pretty well.

I'd estimate that the new 2600's can run 5 easily. pair that with 560gt, 12gigs of memory and you should be set. If you can afford to throw in an SSD it wouldnt hurt.

[Smedbox]

Consider keeping your old machine, if you can run 1 or 2 characters on that one. I think going from 5 to 3 or 4 on your new machine helps a lot with your performance requirements and your cost. Make sure your graphics card has a lot of video memory.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

the i7-2600k I've got does great with 5 on my GT460. My ATI 5850 machine with the same motherboard/2600k/RAM struggles with more than 4.

This is using ISBoxer to drive all 5 windows at 1680x1050 resolution. Lower resolutions would give you more room to adjust. Also note that simply kicking Rift up from low-quality renderer to normal with all other settings still at zero jumps my CPU usage from <15% up to >60%.

[Krago]

I am running 5 clients on an i7 2600K, 16 GB RAM, ATI 6870 and it is fine.

I don't have alot of eye candy turned on as I haven't had time to play around with quality settings and the tuning tricks from the RIFT forum.

I have an 120 GB SSD in the machine that I was using for a Hackintosh partition but I think I will repurpose that back to Windows 7 and give OSX a HDD instead.

[Lyonheart]

I'm running 5 on a Asus Rog Laptop.. core i72630QM 460GTXm and *gigs of ram.. runs all 5 on low quality render smooth.. I lag a tad in the city but not enough to matter. I'm sure any modern PC with 8+gigs of ram and anything 460GTX + would be more than fine.

[wyofiddler]

Also running 5 on an i7 920 (OC'd to 3.6Ghz), 12gigs RAM and gtx 480 (not OC'd) video card - runs fine with main on med settings and 4 slaves on low qual render.

I tried to split the team between two computers like Smedbox mentioned, but my internet lagged out sooo badly it was not playable and I didn't troubleshoot it much, might be my low quality 10/100 switch or something. I ended up just running all 5 on main computer and it works fine for me.

[Andreauk]

Thanks all.. will shop around see what I can get