canes21

Thanks for the advice. I am pretty sure the PSU is at least 500 watts, but I'm not exactly sure. The best thing is to probably just build a new rig here soon, probably over the summer. This PC is old, and since its a Dell, many things could go wrong. Like I said before, I am not even sure you can upgrade them, or this model at least. I'll just wait and build a a new rig I guess when I have a bit more money to spend. The game runs nice enough now that I don't need something right away.

Hey guys, I am new here obviously. I am really interested in ARMA II, always have been. I have been recently playing the ARMA II and OA demos a lot lately and I really enjoy OA so much more. My computer runs the game pretty well, but sometimes it gets ridiculous. I know the demos are older builds and I assume the full games run somewhat smoother, but I am looking into upgrading my PC anyways. Right now this PC was a Dell XPS 410 from a while back. The only thing I have upgraded is the GPU. I have a GTS 450 right now from EVGA and I really like it, but everything else is stock in the PC and I know the CPU and RAM have to be bringing the whole PC down. I only have 2 GB of DDR2 RAM and my CPU is the old E6300 Core 2 Duo @ 1.86GHz. I don't want to spend that much money upgrading, but do want to get something which will give a noticeable boost. Since this is a prebuilt PC I am not even sure it is completely upgradeable. Obviously the GPU is, but I am not sure for RAM and the CPU. I have done some research and others have been able to upgrade their Dells with a new CPU of the same socket type, but I don't know about RAM. What would you guys recommend me doing for ARMA II? Right now, this game and GTA IV are the only games that give me any problems, with GTA IV giving me more, but I have that for the 360 and don't care much about it running well on my PC. Everything else like Crysis runs on my PC fine, but most other games I have are GPU dependent. But this game is more about the CPU I would guess with so much going on, so I think its definitely time to upgrade that to get better performance on everything, and especially ARMA II.