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Okay so as the title suggests, this is not your average "build me a gaming PC for x $$ please"...
I'm willing to spend up to 1500$ if need be but I doubt the cost will come anywhere close to this.
I don't need any peripherals though I do need a case. This is going to be rather difficult to explain to bear with me...
I play a 20 year old game (almost exactly 20 years we're celebrating the anniversary right now) called EverQuest. However, I don't just play 1 character, I do what is called "multiboxing", which, for those of you who haven't heard of that term it simply means I play multiple accounts at one time (using a broadcasting program called ISBoxer).
Basically, I want to build a PC that will yield me the best "characters to USD ratio" if that makes sense. So, a 500$ computer that can run 10 characters is better than a 1500$ computer that can run 12, for example. (And by "character", think "program")
Some basic info of what resources are required to run a lot of characters:
The overwhelming majority of what determines how many characters can be played at once is the amount of CPU cores. I can set each character to be run by a single core. Also, CPUs with cores in multiples of 6 are a plus (or so it would seem) considering there are 6 characters to a group / if I add characters they are usually (but not necessarily) in increments of 6.
The game pretty much requires any video card. By that I mean as long as it isn't integrated graphics, everything is all good, a used 760 vs a 2080 ti will do absolutely nothing to increase character count or performance.
Of course, a lot of RAM. I don't care at all about RAM speed, it won't help at all, but each character requires up to 1.2GB of memory (I'm overestimating this, in most locations it's more around 500-800mb).
Just need 1 single 128gb 960 Evo, no other storage.
Don't need an optical drive.
To give you guys an idea of what I currently have: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/YdYPNQ
^And I can run 24 characters on this comfortably (This PC was made as an all-purpose machine though so the build I'm looking for will look nothing like this), I'm not sure if 24 is the max but I wouldn't be surprised if I could bump it up to 30. RAM would stop me from going any further.
I know this is difficult to describe and very unique so if I think of any better ways to describe this I'll edit the post, and if anyone has any questions feel free to ask away.
I'm willing to spend up to 1500$ if need be but I doubt the cost will come anywhere close to this.
I don't need any peripherals though I do need a case. This is going to be rather difficult to explain to bear with me...
I play a 20 year old game (almost exactly 20 years we're celebrating the anniversary right now) called EverQuest. However, I don't just play 1 character, I do what is called "multiboxing", which, for those of you who haven't heard of that term it simply means I play multiple accounts at one time (using a broadcasting program called ISBoxer).
Basically, I want to build a PC that will yield me the best "characters to USD ratio" if that makes sense. So, a 500$ computer that can run 10 characters is better than a 1500$ computer that can run 12, for example. (And by "character", think "program")
Some basic info of what resources are required to run a lot of characters:
The overwhelming majority of what determines how many characters can be played at once is the amount of CPU cores. I can set each character to be run by a single core. Also, CPUs with cores in multiples of 6 are a plus (or so it would seem) considering there are 6 characters to a group / if I add characters they are usually (but not necessarily) in increments of 6.
The game pretty much requires any video card. By that I mean as long as it isn't integrated graphics, everything is all good, a used 760 vs a 2080 ti will do absolutely nothing to increase character count or performance.
Of course, a lot of RAM. I don't care at all about RAM speed, it won't help at all, but each character requires up to 1.2GB of memory (I'm overestimating this, in most locations it's more around 500-800mb).
Just need 1 single 128gb 960 Evo, no other storage.
Don't need an optical drive.
To give you guys an idea of what I currently have: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/YdYPNQ
^And I can run 24 characters on this comfortably (This PC was made as an all-purpose machine though so the build I'm looking for will look nothing like this), I'm not sure if 24 is the max but I wouldn't be surprised if I could bump it up to 30. RAM would stop me from going any further.
I know this is difficult to describe and very unique so if I think of any better ways to describe this I'll edit the post, and if anyone has any questions feel free to ask away.
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