JohnnyDust

Yeah, I'd like some info on this too. Anybody?

Great mission mate, I just had an hour of good fun. Nice with a change of scenery, there's always two sides to a war. I hope you're not taking too much heat for your choice of setting and side, I thinks its great fun, getting to utilise some guerilla tactics instead of always being seal team six out to save the world. So thanks alot, and keep the great work going :)

Hey, great work man, good addition. It'd be nice with perhaps some winter or urban camo mixed in there, or maybe even the odd blue fleece jacket. Both the first and the latter seem quite popular with the chech muj. Cheers and thanks for works :)

Does anybody know if I can turboboost and change the multiplier on the 2500(no K version), to take me to just around 4ghz, if I get a, say, H67 gigabyte mobo? I was looking at an Gigabyte GA-H67MA-D2H S-1155, for price reasons, as compared to the Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD4 S-1155 I was looking at earlier. Thanks in advance

OK, thanks, that was kinda just what I wanted to hear :D What mobo are you running on? P67 or H67? I think I would be just fine with the 3,6 boosted speed, and I did plan on getting a aftermarket cooler, so 4,1 sounds like more than enough, but how does this thing with the multiplier work? (I am at a complete loss when it comes to OCing or anything remotely connected.) Thanks mate, you just made my day a little bit better, I could be looking to place an order by thuesday :D

Just when I thought I was out... They pull me back in! :D No, seriously, I found that the Sandy Bridge K processors are kinda hard to come by here in Denmark where I live, the shop I'm looking to buy from say they won't have them in stock until sometime in April. And I have a hard time sitting on my hands 'til then, so I just wanted to pop in and get you guys' take, on whether I should get the i5 2500 straight or maybe the i7-2600 or just suck it up and wait for the K-versions to become available. I should mention, that originally I had been looking at the i5-2500k, but only so I would have the theoretical option of overclocking. I have never really tried OCing, and I'm not even sure I would, if I got the K-version, it's just nice not to limit oneself in advance, if you get my drift. As always, thanks in advance, I bow in submission to this threads mighty wisdom.

Uhmm, not good reason actually :) I'm just a bit averted to partitions, I kinda got the impression that partitions slowed the HD down, but all my experiences with it, is like 10 years old, and prolly not relevant at all when it comes to SSD. So that might be a good way to go.

Yeah, I see what you mean, it's basically the same price as the two I was looking at, but with quite an improvement in R/W speeds. And so my troubles continue ;) I hadn't planned on going RAID but that's just because I havn't really looked into setting it up and the advantages of doing so. I was just turned on by the idea of having a separate drive for the OS and one for Arma. Plus I thought it'd maybe give a small nudge in performance, and ease of formatting the OS drive if need be. And I'm not sure I understand. With that rig and triplehead, why would I need a new girl? ;) Okay, yeah I did plan on trying to overclock it, but just a tiny bit, so I figured the extra cooling from the case (200mm on the side) would be enough. Also, I'm very much on the verge of my financial capabilities right now, so I feel if I could save maybe 50eu that would make a difference, as compared to the hassle (which is obiously free, but not very nice ;) ). And finally, I'm not building it myself, I'm having a small private company do it for me, so I get a warranty on the complete rig, and I don't know how he would respond to the prospect of having to install an aftermarket cooler. But I'll take it up with him, coz it isn't a lot of money and you do have a very good point. Thanks again guys, brilliant amount of response in a very short time :D

Sounds good guys, can't wait till I get my new rig, yours is the first soundmod I'll give a go :D

With the help of you guys, especially Flatterman and Leon86, I actually think I've agreed with myself on the final setup, it looks as follows. XFX Radeon HD 6970 (2 GB) Intel Core i5 2500K Sandy Bridge GIGABYTE GA-P67A-UD4 Sandy Bridge Corsair 8GB DDR3 1333Mhz (2x4GB) XMS3 NZXT Hades Crafted Series No PSU Black 2x Kingston SSDNow V100 Desktop 64GB XFX 750W BLACKEDITION SINGLE PSU Lemme know what you think, or if I've missed something crucial (like; hey dude, thats laptop memory and not a compatible speed, and the mb is the wrong socket for the processor or whatnot. I think the whole thing fits, but one can never be too sure ;) ). So cheers!!! :D And thanks for all the help, I'm stoked about this setup (It prolly goes with the story, that I havn't been able to play arma for like 6 months, since I split up with my girlfriend. Yeah thats right, I used to hijack my girlfriends laptop for Arma, and it didn't even meet the minimum requirements fully. It was not quite optimal, but better than nothing. So I feel I've paid my lowspec dues, and that I'm ready for a proper killer rig now (please tell me this is atleast a somewhat killer rig ;P).).

Thanks for all the the feedback Flatterman, you've been very helpful. I looked around, and as far as I can tell, the 5870 is a single GPU card, it seems the 5970 is the only mainstream dual GPU card from ATI. Ultimately I'm just a bit worried that maybe the RAM on the 6970 is of a lower quality and therefore cheaper, I know that was the case with some large RAM cards a couple of years ago. I don't know, I kinda pisses me off that I can't make any sense of it, but what the hell, if nobody can come up with a good reason why the old card is better than the new, then I'll throw caution to the wind and get the 6970. Or else I'm just gonna wind up reading reviews and benchmarks for the rest of my life, and wont actually get to play any Arma ;) So I think I'm ending up with a i5-2500k and a XFX HD6970 if I can afford it altogether. By the way, I saw a post a little while back, that 1600mhz RAM didn't really make a difference as compared to 1333mhz RAM, any inside knowledge on this? I've been planning to get 1600mhz, but if I could get a cheaper motherboard on account of not needing the 12800 speed, I might be able to afford a couple of extra gb of RAM. Lemme hear from you guys, either on the RAM speed issue, or if anybody has a good reason as to why I should get something else than 6970 2gb. And I pretty much decided to go with ATI (AMD?), instead of Nvidia, on account of lower power requirement, lower thermal and better options for triplehead without CFX, or CFX without having to upgrade motherboard. Thanks to all you have helped me out so far. Cheers! :D

Okay, but I'm wondering; I found that the 5870 2gb was quite heavier in price than the 6970 2gb, any idea why that is? God, it seems the more I research the more in doubt I get. Now I'm mostly thinking 6970 2gb. Curse this indecisive brain of mine ;)

Thanks mate, good point. Only thing is, from what I've seen of 6870 benchmarks, the 5870 seems to perform better, so I'm a little suspecious of spending the extra money (approx. 100$ where I live.) on a 6970, if I don't really get much compared to the older 5870. Then again, I can see that the 6950 isn't that much more expensive, so maybe that would be an option? Also I'm not sure the 6970 has actually been released here yet. I think I'm slowly sliding towards staying with the 5870, that seems to be the wiser choice, regarding price and thermals. Thanks again, useful input. Anybody else? :D

This just goes on, sorry guys ;P I'm at a loss as to which graphicscard I should get. I had my mind set on a 5870, but now I just dont know. I have a wet dream of getting triplehead one day, and that's the biggest problem in the equasion. Will that require a dualcard setup for pretty graphics and smooth fps, or would I be fine with a single 5870 or 6870. I'm aware that CrossFire has some problems in Arma, but as far as I've been able to find out, the ATI cards run slightly better. It should be said this rig is only going to be used to play Arma. Also I'm a giant whore for smooth FPS, but I obviously also want the best graphics I can get. I hope you guys can see my conundrum. I'm on the verge of ordering, and this is the last thing I need to sort out. So please, gimme your two cents and help me out, I'm itching to get going. Badly. Cheers! :D

What do you guys have to say about the 5870 vs 6870. And alltogether would it be better to get a GTX570 or 580? And lastly does anybody have any good advice as to what motherboard I should look at for my upcomming i7 2600K Sandy Bridge rig? Thx in advance, this thread is invaluble :D