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I am not looking to box much. Just looking for a cheap PC that will run 1 instance of EQ smoothly. Is there any cheap deals you recommend. I do realize that eq will run on a toaster but im not real good at looking over PC specs.
Newegg has refurbished desktops for around $200 that would run EQ most likely. Smoothly depends on what settings you want enabled and how many people are around you. I.E something cheap probably wont run smooth in a raid or GL
Now, that is not really a problem for a single instance of EQ as it does come with 4GB or ram and the 2GHz Core2Duo should not choke on a single EQ instance.
EQ is really light on CPU requirements, but does need about 1GB of RAM per single instance.
The big problem is going to be the GPU as it looks likely as it does not have any dedicated but only the integrated Intel from 10 years ago and that is quite shitty. It could run EQ really slowly but it would suffer greatly in a raid.
What I recommend is getting a cheap Intel Ivy-Bridge i5 3470 (or better) quad core corporate desktop from HP,Dell or Lenovo for ~150 and then possibly adding a dedicated graphics card for around $50.
If you do not want to bother with adding a dedicated graphics card then stick with Haswell i5s 4570 and up as those have pretty decent integrated graphics for EQ at least.
You can run 1 instance on a 4gb very smoothly. I have a computer thats 4gb, standard graphics card, and it can run up to 8 (thats with lag and low graphics) but it will run 1 just fine.
You can probably run 1 on a 2gb computer with a base harddrive of like 50gb. I would suggest looking at craigslist as many colleges and schools offload their computers per pallet and people will buy the pallet and sell the computers (which are 4gb usually) for 30-40$ a piece without a monitor/keyboard/mouse.
Agreed, Kyle, if you are looking to run a bunch of 1 instance computers(for TLP I assume) then 2GB on Win7 will be fine. Pretty much any desktop CPU from last 12 years will suffice.
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