Two User Gaming PC for MMO

tomtom81

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Jun 25, 2013
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10,510
Approximate Purchase Date: next month

Budget Range: max 2000 Euro

System Usage from Most to Least Important: playing Elder Scrolls Online simultaneously with 2 players, other high end games, videos

Are you buying a monitor: No

Do you need to buy OS: Yes

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: mindfactory.de, conrad.de, hardwareversand.de

Location: Berlin, Germany

Parts Preferences: Intel CPU and NVIDIA Graphics

Overclocking: No

SLI or Crossfire: Maybe

Your Monitor Resolution: open

Additional Comments: should be as quiet as possible and also be good in power consumption

And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading: gaming laptop is almost broken and doesn't cope well with actual games. + me and my wife want to play ESO without having 2 machines in the room.
 

X79

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Must admit I'm not following on how you'll play two at once, but hey, it's Germany.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (€206.91 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Motherboard: Asus B85-PLUS ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (€95.64 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Memory: Corsair XMS3 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (€117.39 @ Hardwareversand)
Storage: Samsung 840 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (€84.95 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (€58.25 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 670 2GB Video Card (€313.70 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case (€59.90 @ Caseking)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (€54.90 @ Caseking)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NS95 DVD/CD Writer (€15.70 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (€87.90 @ Caseking)
Total: €1095.24
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-06-25 23:18 CEST+0200)

Sehr gut.

The case will keep things quiet for sure. A GTX 760 wasn't possible to find either.

Added 16GB RAM even though I normally wouldn't, for safeties sake, as I thought it might

be beneficial if two are playing at the same time.
 

tomtom81

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Jun 25, 2013
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10,510


I just read another post here where someone describes a multiseater for gaming. His solution was multiple video cards + sandboxie and some other software. So, is it possible to add a second video card to this setup, or do we need another board?

Thanks so far!

 

X79

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Cool.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (€208.75 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Motherboard: Asus Z87-A ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (€129.89 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Memory: Corsair XMS3 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (€117.39 @ Hardwareversand)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (€58.25 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 670 2GB Video Card (€313.70 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case (€59.90 @ Caseking)
Power Supply: XFX 750W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (€85.79 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NS95 DVD/CD Writer (€15.70 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (€87.90 @ Caseking)
Total: €1077.27
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-06-26 12:52 CEST+0200)

Here, this motherboard is SLI ready, just in case. The GPU of course already has the ability to

support at least two screens. I removed the SSD however. The PSU is also big enough to accomodate

another GPU, if you add one and the GTX 670 scales well with SLI.