# Multi core support

**URL:** <https://forums.eveonline.com/t/multi-core-support/24384>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [September 14, 2017, 5:05am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/multi-core-support/24384 "2017-09-14T05:05:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lee\_Lobster](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/lee_lobster/32/24267_2.png) [@Lee\_Lobster](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Lee_Lobster)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2017, 5:05am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/multi-core-support/24384/1 "2017-09-14T05:05:33Z")

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Looking into an HP Pavilion x2 for school and wanting to know if I can play EVE Online on it when comparing the CPU benchmarks it looks like the CPU can only keep up with my old system that could handle EVE if it had multi core support

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**Author:** ![DeMichael\_Crimson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/demichael_crimson/32/514115_2.png) [@DeMichael\_Crimson](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/DeMichael_Crimson)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2017, 7:37am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/multi-core-support/24384/2 "2017-09-14T07:37:40Z")

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> **[System Requirements](https://support.eveonline.com/hc/en-us/articles/202748741-System-Requirements)**
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> All hardware regardless of platform must support the following minimum requirements:
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> CPU that supports SSE2
> GPU
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> with 256 MB VRAM or more
> that supports Shader Model 3
> that supports Dir...

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**Author:** ![yellow\_parasol](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/yellow_parasol/32/10455_2.png) [@yellow\_parasol](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/yellow_parasol)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2017, 7:52am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/multi-core-support/24384/3 "2017-09-14T07:52:10Z")

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the client uses a seperate thread for audio. two cores are beneficial, if your EVE has sound. if it doesn’t have two cores, it’s not the end of the world, though.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 7:52am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/multi-core-support/24384/4 "2017-12-13T07:52:29Z")

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