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  6. Posted

    Seriously, love your game and all, but this is looking to be the most unorganised major game release ever. Apart from the BIS forum and a few random websites scattered around the net, I have yet to see any major hype about this game, and it's coming out in about 2 weeks...:386:

    Not only that, but the release dates are all over the place AND there is still no release date for half the world.

    I don't want to have to play on EU servers with a 200-300 ping the whole time. Unlike the huge influx of players that most games get when they come out, arma2 is set to have several small waves of players as it is slowly released around the world.

    And why should I have to go out of my way to search for a copy, aren't you trying to sell us the game? None of the major retailers (in AU at least) are stocking the game, nor even know about it...

    I mean, it's good that this time you are releasing the same version world wide.... but like, maybe with arma3 you can have a global release date as well????:confused: The majority of other games seem to be able to do it.

  8. Posted

    cm, who gives a shit what my name is and if i play cod. whats wrong with cod? i never played arma but ive been looking at arma 2 and flashpoint 2 for a while and they both look great. arma 2 is getting released like june 26th in europe so does any1 have a guess when it will be out on ps3 in USA?

    I don't care what games you play, I'm just bagging your name, which i think is funny...

    No PS3 release of arma II thus far.. so far it's just PC and XB360.

  9. Posted

    Sounds good ^^ - almost glad I skipped ARMA - the step up OFPR should be a significant one. Slightly off topic, I am intrigued how flying jets will work over a 'small' area. Small in regard to the amount of ground covered - surely the whole of Chenarus would be covered in 2 / 3 minutes...

    Yep... 2-3 mins sounds about right ;)

  10. Posted

    I dont buy stuff online, and if they cant be bothered to sell it in aus then they arent worth giving our $$ to. After all they are meant to be pursuading us to buy the game, not the other way around.

    They should be selling it in aus, its just a question of when lol, which comes back to BI releasing info on sales in areas other than Europe, afaik thats the only date given sofar :(

    To each thier own, but I'll be playing arma2 while your still waiting for it :pistols:

  19. Posted

    Looks like rain is still made just like in OFP and ArmA. I was really expecting particle rain this time with real drops. But at least the water looks good and can be added to any terrain level.

    I must be blind or something but I don't see any pics of rain?

  20. Posted

    SLI/Crossfire is still unreliable the last time I checked. There are certain situations where it would be worth the risk - mainly if you have something like a 30" monitor, but if you have a more regular sized screen, a single card should be more than enough.

    It still isn't great, I would definately agree there, but it gone leaps and bounds since the x1900s were using it. At least now you can actually see a 2x gain in performance given the right optimisations are made in the game/drivers.

    And please spot anything in my post that looks biased to you.

  21. Posted

    SSDs don't have seek times. They do have memory access latencies though, but that is negligible.

    What's your point? It still doesn't mean they are worth the massive price tag (as you stated).

    I still don't think an i7 and x58 is worth the money... but if you have money to burn then why not.

  22. Posted

    Slightly off topic but i hope their eyes glow in the dark, seriously though, if two cows stand close together at night, they'll look like the headlights of a truck and get AT4'd

    Hahahahaha, that would be awesome, I highly doubt any of the animals have reflective eyes though, would be very cool though :)

  23. Posted · Edited by cm

    Research

    Research

    Research

    Even more research

    I did some research before I made my post and it seems that if you can afford it, the i7 is the better performer currently.

    I don't plan on clocking higher than 3.6Ghz so I won't have to worry about hitting that wall. :)

    My last system I bought 2 X1900 cards and the expensive mobo (P5B) to support it. I was totally disappointed with the results and swore that I would never do the crossfire thing again (mostly because arma didn't support it and it's the main game I play).

    You're right it's the P6T and I know who the mfg. is :)

    For some reason I just couldn't remember the numeric.

    Thanks for the advice. What is the improvement over onboard output? Sound quality? Better gaming performance?

    I'll check the prices, again thanks for the advice.

    Yeah i'm still in the process of researching, and thanks to you guys i'm learning even more. Price isn't too much of a factor for me so I don't mind buying the better performer (i7). I was thinking about waiting for Intel's 35nm process to come out but I've put off upgrading for a while now and I have to pull the trigger sometime.

    RE: 4890's

    If waiting wasn't a option, and I was mad, what card would you recommend?

    I want fancy headphones since I live in a apartment. Would a fancy headphone compliment the fancy sound cards?

    Asking you guys for your advice and opinions is part of my research, and I appreciate it very much. Thank you. :)

    Very interesting. I wouldn't want to make that kind of mistake. I'll talk to "the guy" at my local computer shop and ask him when he expects the next-gen cards to come out.

    I was wondering that myself. Maybe some people are true enthusiasts who can afford these lifestyles of the rich and famous. :icon_lol:

    Again, what about finest headphones around?

    I seriously appreciate your opinions, keep em coming. :D

    Ok, here comes my unbiased opinion, I have a shite load of experience with computers, much more than the vast majority of users on here.

    CPU: I would have to agree with one of the above members that going with a PII 955 is probably your best bet. they have unlocked multipliers - so are a piece of cake to overclock, accept DDR2 & DDR3 memory and are relatively cheap. If you were going to be doing CAD work, I would recommend an i7, but there is little difference in gaming.

    Mobo: I would recommend a gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4.

    2x 2.0 PCI-E x16 slots, a few PCI slots and plenty of PCI-E 1x for sound cards and what not. The good thing about this particular board is that it has A LOT of upgrade potential. AMD will not be changing thier CPU socket anytime soon, so I would expect at least 2-3 years of high-end capability out of that board.

    RAM: 4GB (2x2GB) 1666 DDR3,

    Brand doesn't really matter that much as long as you stick to your usual kingston/corsair/team xtream etc. Tighter timing make a neglible difference but if they don't cost much more then why not. You are unlikely to use 4GB or RAM (although with arma2...) and with the price of RAM always dropping in the long run you can pick up an extra 4GB of RAM when it's cheaper and/or if you actually need it.

    Graphics card:

    This is probably the hardest part to pick and depends entirely on your budget. If you wanted to go the whole AMD/ATI route, maybe picking up a 4870X2 or a single 4890 would be a good idea, but again depends on your budget. If you went the crossfire route, 2x 4890s would be a formidable machine, and one I assume could easily run arma 2 on near max settings (at a reasonable resolution of course).

    If you were to go down the nvida route, you always have the good old GTX295 or maybe a pair of GTX260 216s.

    I recommend going for the single, fast card rather than dual GTX280/260/4890 or whatever, simply because you have that extra PCI-E x16 slot to use if you feel you need to.

    Oh, and don't base your selection on ancient hardware. Crossfire and SLI have come a loooooong way since the X1900 days.

    Sound card: this is an area i don't have all that much knowledge in, but I wouldn't really bother whith any of the really expensive cards, you will notice no difference when gaming. The auzentec card mentioned before is definately a good pick, and I'd have to recommend that one as well. In terms of the improvement over on board sound, there will be significant reduction in static and lag in the sound if the processor gets choked up with tasks. Sound quality is obviously improved over onboard, although the law of dimishing returns takes affect here and when you start buying cards $100+ most of the time the improvement is marginally less.

    HDD:

    By all means, go SSD if you want to, but if you were doing that I'd expect you to have a core i7 975 EE w/ 2x GTX295 or something . They simply are not worth the huge cost at the moment. 2x raptors in RAID 0 will give you a huge boost in theoretical HDD speed but don't expect anything too dramatic in the real world, although windows and games with boot/load pretty quickly... What I would recommend, is getting 2x 1TB drives, and throwing them in RAID 0, because of the density of the drives they approach the speeds of some of the less dense 10K RPM drives and have heaps of room for all your games/music/pr0n etc.

    Heatsink:

    Go for the trusty old TRUE, excellent cooler, the V8 is a POS really, it's just made to look cool and it's super expensive because of it and it's not even "the best" cooler. Make sure you lap it though as you should see a pretty good drop in temps.

    BTW: whoever said ATIs next gen cards are coming out in the next month is talking out of thier arse. It will be Q3 at least, and rumors say it's been delayed until Q4. Just buy now...

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