This build for arma 2 OA and PR?

[Enkidutorix]

Motherbord : Newegg.ca - ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 AM3 AMD 890GX HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard

CPU : Newegg.ca - AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Thuban 3.2GHz 6 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Six-Core Desktop Processor HDT90ZFBGRBOX

Graphic card : Newegg.ca - GIGABYTE GV-R585OC-1GD Radeon HD 5850 (Cypress Pro) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card w/ ATI Eyefinity

Memory : Newegg.ca - G.SKILL 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Triple Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9T-6GBNQ

Case : Newegg.ca - Antec Nine Hundred Two Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

Headset : Newegg.ca - Creative Fatal1ty Gaming Headset

Its gonna run arma 2 OA on very high?

What do you think?Should i choose an other motherboard?

I7 or Phenom II?

[puckett]

i7 is more powerful but that cpu will handle it fine.

[Enkidutorix]

Are you sure that this i7 Newegg.ca - Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor BX80601950 is more powerful?

[puckett]

Are you sure that this i7 Newegg.ca - Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor BX80601950 is more powerful?

Yeah, I am sure it is.

[Johncro]

Dude teh 6 core is way better.....Quad comapred to 6 cores pretty much suck

Go big or go home

[Enkidutorix]

thats what i was thinking lol , but my config is good or what ?

[Johncro]

thats what i was thinking lol , but my config is good or what ?

Yeah its good the card is good,

the motherboard is good

Ram 6gb good

and teh processor is good aswell

[Enkidutorix]

aight and what do you think about the headset should i get an surrounding one?and you think that i can run PR on max graphic and arma 2 on very high with a nice fps?

[Johncro]

Headset is in fact really good.

YOu can run PR maxed out.

Arma2 high

[Enkidutorix]

What should i change get for running arma 2 on veryhigh and btw thanks for ya help

[Johncro]

What should i change get for running arma 2 on veryhigh and btw thanks for ya help

Not really anything, Arma2's performance runs on a variety of things, like most other games.

More bots = higher CPU usage
more buildings,grass etc = more video card ram usage

So i'm for your sake not gonna give you a good example of Arma2's performance, I don't want someone getting their hopes up for it to be crushed.

[puckett]

Dude teh 6 core is way better.....Quad comapred to 6 cores pretty much suck

Go big or go home

It does not work like that. The I7 can easily out preform the 1090T when it comes to gaming.
Besides, 6 cores isnt even nessesary. A core 2 duo can out preform a 1090T.

[Psyrus]

What should i change get for running arma 2 on veryhigh and btw thanks for ya help

If you're willing to spend more money and learn how to OC your CPU, the HD6870, HD5870 and GTX580 will yield more FPS than the HD5850 (in the order listed).

GeForce GTX 580 Arma II: Operation Arrowhead Performance | bit-tech.net

You can actually find HD6870's for ~250 as well, and they scale better in crossfire than the 5xxx series from reviews that I've read. The ~$500 GTX580 will be your best single card performance choice, however afaik crossfired 6870s will beat it for about the same net cost. That being said, I've read too many stories about driver issues & game incompatibilities with multi-card solutions to ever bother with it myself.

[samthegreat4]

Other section:

Originally Posted by samthegreat4
ArmA 2 and OA aren't that GPU intensive really.

Mod:Couldn't be more dead on. What both really hit hard isn't the CPU like you would think (although it does take a toll) but your hard drive. Both games can be bottlenecked by your HDD.

Ya'll lookin' in tha wrong direction.

[BloodBane611]

Spend $100 or so on RAM for a ramdisk or an SSD, it will make a much more noticeable impression than an equivalent amount on GPU, especially if you want to run all high

[FuzzySquirrel]

Dude teh 6 core is way better.....Quad comapred to 6 cores pretty much suck

Go big or go home

Uh...No...an i7 (Which has hyperthreading, which means windows recognizes it as a octo-core) will easily out preform a X6's.

Also go with what bloodbane said but really look at an SSD instead of enough ram for a ramdisc big enough for ArmA 2....

[Enkidutorix]

Sorry for being a noob ,what is a SSD?Or a ram disk...

[FuzzySquirrel]

Sorry for being a noob ,what is a SSD?Or a ram disk...

Solid-state drive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

To make that basic, its basically a hard drive without the disc and it has blazing fast read/write times which help tremendously in ArmA 2 with loading textures.

And ram disc is basically where you store items on your physical memory (which would mean you'd need about 14-16 GB to have arma 2 and a functioning computer)