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With my luck I wouldn't get less than a G5 quad. Luckily I was able to recoup most of my investment in the G5 dual 2.3 which could only box 2. I'm also not sure on the ATI card vs Nvidia. That is a single core machine? Lots of ram is nice but if only 1 processor it's rolling the dice.

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Looks like that is a dual 2.5 so not bad for EQ. Being an earlier G5 I'm not sure it would run 6 though.

I've decided to hold out until I can get either a DM9591LL/A (dual core 2.3) or a M9749xx/A (dual 2.7), and hoping for the dual core 2.3 as it isn't nearly as much of a power hog and has faster memory / graphics card.

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Daaaaaah! To be honest, this s* is confusing...older Mac gear runs more instances better than newer Mac gear? That just seems polar opposite to PC mentality. I really don't know enough about Macs to know what I should get to be able to run 6 toon at the same time. Hopefully I can get 4 toons to run on it and just use my MacBook pro to run the other 2...when I get off this damn ship and my sorry ass into a house.

It's a dual.

The video card is not awesome, but it is about the best I can get for that model (that I can tell according to the wiki page for G5s).

Native vs emulation.

The newer Macs are Intel processors requiring Rosetta to emulate the older PPC architecture which slows things down.

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The answer is a G5 quad, tried and tested to work.

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I just bought a Power Mac G5 Quad Core 2.5 GHz 12GB RAM rig. Yaaaaay for tried and tested! I soooo can't wait to get home and load this and my Duo Core up with the three 24" monitors I bought as well. Wheeeeeeee!!!!

Congrats that should be one heck of a gaming machine!

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So would a brand new imac with the HD 4670 and 2gb running on an i3 run the game piss poor or something?

No, but I'd maybe max out the RAM.

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Alright.

I was going to go with a CL buy but today i got approved through Barclay's for the apple store for $2k so that threw a whole wrench in my plans. Still, considering the quad 2.5 g5 with 6gb and a 7800GT. For what I want, it almost seems like a better buy.

There's little chance a new i3 would outperform a G5 quad with 6gb of RAM.

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Yeah, figured that. I do need 2 macs though. Wouldn't hurt to have both.

As soon as Hobart has the clients and SOE has the new website ready, I'll be archiving this thread since it will become obsolete.

There will be a new sticky with both the Intel and PPC (new client) system requirements.

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Fixed the OP.

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