Just to give you an idea, I currently run 5/10 clients on this 3.5 year old antique:

  • i7-920 overclocked to 4GHz (but, to be honest, CPU is not an issue)
  • 12GB RAM (this is the limiting factor for me)
  • 2GB ATI 6950
  • Win7-64 on SSD
  • Single installation of Eve on another SSD
  • Two 1920x1200 monitors


Personally, I don't play Eve for the graphics, so have no issue having minimal graphics on all clients and can 10-box on the above spec with no problems.

I actually pushed it to 12 clients back in March and logged the results

http://isboxer.com/forum/viewtopic.p...p=15706#p15706

Logging all 12 in at JITA, docked:

  • CPU cores are at 10-20% load
    using just over 10GB RAM
    GPU at 29% load
    using 1.2GB GPU RAM


Undocking at JITA 4/4 (so lots of ships around):

  • CPU cores now at 15-30% load
    using just under 11GB RAM
    GPU at 37% load
    1.6GB GPU RAM
I know the "minimum requirements" went up with the June 'expansion' but I've not noticed any changes with my 10-boxing.

If you like higher quality graphics in space then you might not be able to run 10 on such a spec but I just don't find that Eve needs the graphics, as I'm spending most of my time with on eye on local and the other on my overview/modules/ore bay etc. Something life Rift, however, I do need nice graphics (at least on the 'main'), so can just about 5-box that on my spec.

I originally started MBing (WoW) on 2 lower spec PCs, using http://www.kavoom.biz/ software KVM to control them but it never worked as well a single PC does.
I guess you have an advantage that if one PC craps out you can still warp out the rest of the fleet rather than wait for the PC to reboot and log all your clients back in but I, personally, wouldn't go back to running mutliple PCs for my MBing.

Two screens (driving on the main, with video feeds for the essentials on the secondary) is all you need.
I wouldn't like to keep track of more than 2 screens - if I added a third screen, it would be to run movies/browsers whilst mining, for instance, I wouldn't extend my gaming onto a third monitor.
You can see images of my setup in this post... http://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/4...l=1#post381873