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The guys at the shop didn't recommend the 3200 ram but I can swap it if it's going to be the issue, or is it more?

Seriously...fan boy is an offence word/label here? yikes. I've never seen it as an offence label but that's a whole other conversation Anyways, on to Amra3. I'm running a Ryzen 1500X on a GB 370X mobo with 16gb of 2100 DDR4 ram and a 290x vid card. I see anywhere from 30 to 40 fps on thw Arma3 Exile MP server I play on. much better than the 10 to 15 I got with my 8150 cpu.

Djotacon- thanks. I came here solely to learn if there were any tweaks i can do to make the performance better. Over and over and over again most "regular" contributors state "well you shoulda bought intel" or some other fanboy nonsense. I have for 15+ years and will likely always prefer AMD. Call me a fanboy or whatever but I just prefer AMD. Like said, this is 100,000 percent Bohemia's fault, problem, laziness, whatever. It's not really that much different than say Gran Turismo ONLY being made for the Sony hardware. It's up to the Dev to make it run on an X-Box, but they don't. It's not up to MS make that game run on an X-box. Not enough "contributors" hold the devs hand to the fire to make a product that works properly. If this were really true games like BF and COD would have ruined those pubs/devs. But the consumer just doesn't do enough to make these businesses account for their incomplete products and just allows for them to release a "patch". Yeah I'm an old fart who grew up on games that never got patched cause they mostly never needed it. Now it's just biz as usual for this practice. /rant. Anyway look forward to seeing more results from other AMD fanboys.

Like it or not you can't blame AMD. This falls solely at the feet of BIS for making a product that works better on one hardware over another. Rest assured AMD did not likely give two shits how well one poorly coded game that has a minute market share works on their chips. We as consumers should demand more from the software devs to write better fracking code. Stop giving them money, stop playing their games, and just maybe they will make something of quality. Otherwise build your machine based on the consensus of what works best. I say this having just finished building an AMD Ryzen 5 set up. And did so knowing full well that Arma and BIS have no idea how to code for multi core processors....I mean really, it's 2017....and how long have multi core processors been around...but I digress.