Will my PC Run this? What CPU/GPU to get? What settings? System Specifications.

[matchy7 10]

would a "Intel Core i3 540 / 3.06GHz /" be any good? also how much more ram?

[Leon86 13]

would a "Intel Core i3 540 / 3.06GHz /" be any good? also how much more ram?

4GB is the recommended ammount, and for arma there's no reason to get more. An i3 540 is a dualcore where the i5-760 is a quadcore. In arma I dont know if it's better to have an i3 dualcore or an athlonII triple/quad, but the amd is probably cheaper.

[immortals 10]

Will this run arma 2 in high res and high settings?

AMD Athlonâ„¢ II X2 250 Dual-Core CPU

4gb ram

NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT - 1GB

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Will this run arma 2 in high res and high settings?

AMD Athlonâ„¢ II X2 250 Dual-Core CPU

4gb ram

NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT - 1GB

or would a ATI Radeon HD 5770 - 1GB be better?

Edited October 19, 2010 by immortals

[bangtail 0]

Will this run arma 2 in high res and high settings?

AMD Athlonâ„¢ II X2 250 Dual-Core CPU

4gb ram

NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT - 1GB

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or would a ati 5770 be better?

Neither will run high res/settings with any decent view distance at what would be considered acceptable levels.

[meade95 0]

I'm not to computer savy....But I've been reading about needing the following tweaks to make A2/OA work better..... Regarding ...cpuCount=4. And exThreads=7 Where exactly do I put this? In the exe file of A2/OA??

Also, what should mine be, with my system.

I have a DELL XPS 720 System (2 years old).

Quad Q6600 @ 2.4Ghz

3GB RAM

GeForce 8800 GT 512 RAM

RUNNING WINDOWS XP

Also what should I have in the following settings for my video card

Tripple Buffering? ON or OFF?

Threaded Optimization? ON OR OFF?

Thanks for any help / advice...

Edited October 19, 2010 by meade95

[Azza FHI 50]

hey man. i can help u with the location of those commands. all u need to do is create a shortcut of the exe file. do not change the actual exe file!

inside the shortcut it will have 'target line' - obviously this is where the shortcut points to, the original exe file.

then at the end of the line put a space and a "- command"

eg. target line - C: games/arma2/arma2.exe -mod=sound_mod -cpucount=4 -nosplash

nosplash skips the game intro so u can get down to bizo

ps. those ppl voting for 'other' graphics cards, u aint got nuthin, 5970 reigns king!!!!!

Edited October 19, 2010 by Azer1234

[Leon86 13]

I'm not to computer savy....But I've been reading about needing the following tweaks to make A2/OA work better..... Regarding ...cpuCount=4. And exThreads=7 Where exactly do I put this? In the exe file of A2/OA??

Also, what should mine be, with my system.

I have a DELL XPS 720 System (2 years old).

Quad Q6600 @ 2.4Ghz

3GB RAM

GeForce 8800 GT 512 RAM

RUNNING WINDOWS XP

Also what should I have in the following settings for my video card

Tripple Buffering? ON or OFF?

Threaded Optimization? ON OR OFF?

Thanks for any help / advice...

The exthreads and cpucount variables were to avoid a problem with hyperthreading cpu's, these problems are fixed now and your cpu doesnt even have hyperthreading.

I'd have threaded optimisation and tribuf on, although I'm not sure triple buffering actually works under directx, thought it was an opengl thing.

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ps. those ppl voting for 'other' graphics cards, u aint got nuthin, 5970 reigns king!!!!!

I think the poll is pretty useless as it is. It should be removed.

[bangtail 0]

ps. those ppl voting for 'other' graphics cards, u aint got nuthin, 5970 reigns king!!!!!

AMD's drivers are naff when it comes to multi-GPU. I've posted many articles that substantiate that claim in the last few pages.

Nvidia GTX 580 is rumoured to be very close (as are AMD's new cards although they don't sound that exciting).

Edited October 19, 2010 by BangTail

[muttly 10]

Hey bangtail i got my pc but having problems

says windows is not genuine have to type in product number but the product number on side my pc clearly to long 33 letters + numbers getting really annoeyed

plus the arse hole from live help where i bought the pc just logged of and went home while sorta waiting for responce from him lol

another thing ive noticed paid £60 for overclocking service dont see lot of evidence they done any when i go to my computer it says i7950 @3.07ghz

never stright forward:(

Edited October 19, 2010 by muttly

[bangtail 0]

Hey bangtail i got my pc but having problems

says windows is not genuine have to type in product number but the product number on side my pc clearly to long 33 letters + numbers getting really annoeyed

plus the arse hole from live help where i bought the pc just logged of and went home while sorta waiting for responce from him lol

another thing ive noticed paid £60 for overclocking service dont see lot of evidence they done any when i go to my computer it says i7950 @3.07ghz

never stright forward:(

Contact Microsoft about the key - 33 Characters is indeed too long - it should be 25.

You can download Everest and check your OC, when you get it installed, look under Computer --- > Overclock and it will give you accurate info.

http://www.lavalys.com/sites/default/files/releases/everestultimate550.exe

Edited October 19, 2010 by BangTail

[Leon86 13]

Hey bangtail i got my pc but having problems

says windows is not genuine have to type in product number but the product number on side my pc clearly to long 33 letters + numbers getting really annoeyed

plus the arse hole from live help where i bought the pc just logged of and went home while sorta waiting for responce from him lol

another thing ive noticed paid £60 for overclocking service dont see lot of evidence they done any when i go to my computer it says i7950 @3.07ghz

never stright forward:(

the @X ghz in windows doesnt mean anything, download cpu-z and look at the speeds.

If windows starts whining it's not genuine there's probably some update not installed yet. Just make sure it's activated. You can find the activate thingy at the same page you see the speed, rmb on comp then properties.

[muttly 10]

hey guys

cpuz says

core speed 1602.0mhz

multipier x12

bus speed 133.5mhz

qpilink 2403.0mhz

makes no sence to me but yeah maybe need updates pissed me off should be ready product key totally wrong and he just logged off went home iam missing mafia 2 aswell as free game

£65 for the OC default cpu speed is 3.06ghz if they changed it to 3.07ghz thats just laughable

drivers look like there out of date aswell

dont want to install anything till get windows sorted guess i'll have wait till tomo

Edited October 19, 2010 by muttly

[bangtail 0]

hey guys

cpuz says

core speed 1602.0mhz

multipier x12

bus speed 133.5mhz

qpilink 2403.0mhz

makes no sence to me but yeah maybe need updates pissed me off should be ready product key totally wrong and he just logged off went home iam missing mafia 2 aswell as free game

£65 for the OC default cpu speed is 3.06ghz if they changed it to 3.07ghz thats just laughable

EIST/Cx etc is kicking in (power saving that automatically lowers the CPU speed when idle etc).

You can disable that in the BIOS.

[muttly 10]

what antivirus you guys use?

[bangtail 0]

what antivirus you guys use?

ESET

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[muttly 10]

Field Value

CPU Properties

CPU Type QuadCore Intel Core i7 950

CPU Alias Bloomfield

CPU Stepping D0

Engineering Sample No

CPUID CPU Name Intel® Core i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz

CPUID Revision 000106A5h

CPU Speed

CPU Clock 1601.9 MHz (original: [ TRIAL VERSION ] MHz)

CPU Multiplier 12x

CPU FSB 133.5 MHz (original: 133 MHz)

QPI Clock 2402.9 MHz

Memory Bus 534.0 MHz

DRAM:FSB Ratio 4:1

CPU Cache

L1 Code Cache 32 KB per core

L1 Data Cache [ TRIAL VERSION ]

L2 Cache 256 KB per core (On-Die, ECC, Full-Speed)

L3 Cache 8 MB (On-Die, ECC, Full-Speed)

Motherboard Properties

Motherboard ID 65-0901-000001-00101111-071610-TYLERSBURG$A1545000_BIOS DATE: 07/16/10 16:19:59 VER: 08.00.15

Motherboard Name Asus Rampage III Extreme (1 PCI, 1 PCI-E x4, 4 PCI-E x16, 6 DDR3 DIMM, Audio, Dual Gigabit LAN, IEEE-1394)

Chipset Properties

Motherboard Chipset Intel Tylersburg X58, Intel Nehalem

Memory Timings 8-8-8-20 (CL-RCD-RP-RAS)

Command Rate (CR) [ TRIAL VERSION ]

DIMM1: Corsair XMS3 CM3X2G1600C9 2 GB DDR3-1333 DDR3 SDRAM (9-9-9-24 @ 666 MHz) (8-8-8-22 @ 592 MHz) (6-6-6-16 @ 444 MHz)

DIMM3: Corsair XMS3 CM3X2G1600C9 [ TRIAL VERSION ]

DIMM5: Corsair XMS3 CM3X2G1600C9 [ TRIAL VERSION ]

BIOS Properties

System BIOS Date 07/16/10

Video BIOS Date 04/14/10

DMI BIOS Version 0901

Graphics Processor Properties

Video Adapter nVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

GPU Code Name GF100 (PCI Express 2.0 x16 10DE / 06C0, Rev A3)

this is what everest says under overclock :(

how do i do that bangtail

scamming arseholes bet they done me on the memory aswell OCZ GOLD 6GB (3x2GB) 1600MHz - Lifetime Warranty (DDR3) was out of stock and they replaced it with Corsair 6GB (3x2GB) XMS3 1600MHz - Lifetime Warranty (DDR3).

Edited October 19, 2010 by muttly

[bangtail 0]

You need to disable your CPU's power saving in the BIOS mate, it's downclocking.

I'd have to say that your CPU is not overclocked though as the bus speed is 133 and that is the standard bus speed.

Edited October 19, 2010 by BangTail

[Leon86 13]

You can just run something and you see the clockspeed increase, it's indeed not overclocked, that's a shame. The bclk is running on 133, that's the stock frequency. I wouldn't worry about the memory, there's no advantage in having memory faster than stock unless your overclock requires it (if you increase the bclk the memory starts running faster as wel, as there's a minimum multiplier).

I run avg antivirus free edition, but you can use microsoft security essentials as well. Both are pretty lightweigt. Virusses are very rare these days, if you dont visit shady sites and use only legal software from reliable sources you don't really need one.

Edited October 19, 2010 by Leon86

[bangtail 0]

You can just run something to see the full speed but I disable those features, they have been known to downclock during games etc so best to ditch it altogether.

Off to play Fallout: New Vegas now so I hope you get it sorted :)

Edited October 19, 2010 by BangTail

[muttly 10]

got it working phoned the microsoft robot punched in some numbers and seems be ok

yeah proper pissed off whats point me buying that motherboard the cooling ect ect if they did nt oc it there loads and loads of stuff in my boxes aswell one bit looks like front of a car stero i think they ve forgot alot things.

no excuse man fork that money out least they do get the simple things right

[Leon86 13]

You can always overclock yourself. But at least get the money for the overclocking service back.

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Off to play Fallout: New Vegas now so I hope you get it sorted :)

You naughty boy. Guess you run antivirus for a reason :)

[bangtail 0]

You can always overclock yourself. But at least get the money for the overclocking service back.

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You naughty boy. Guess you run antivirus for a reason :)

Huh?

Not sure what you are trying to imply but if it's something to do with piracy, I bought it (official release day was today).

[Leon86 13]

Oh that's right, forgot us releases on tuesday. Here we have to wait for friday, bloody publishers.

[bangtail 0]

Oh that's right, forgot us releases on tuesday. Here we have to wait for friday.

Cool :)

I only just started it up, between it, A-10C and ArmA 2, I seem to have very little free time ;)

[muttly 10]

hey bangtail

loving my pc just installed arma so far so good just run OA bench at 52fps massive leap from what i had and all on very high or high.

still have make few trweaks in bios nivida control panel but so far so good :D

just gotta install baf now :)

you leon can give ya selfs a pat on the back thanks for ya help