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I guess I'll have to fraps this later :p They're very small differences though...

If I were you I'd FSAA x2 and high draw distance. Don't forget FXAA maxed too.

A 3770 is basically a 4670/4770 except one year older which is a minimal difference and those are the best mainstream CPUs available. So other than the graphics cards apparently being a bit old, but there's two of them, that build is still high-end.

This is exactly what I meant :p Unless he's got something specific in mind such as 3D modelling, image/video editing et cetera that's a really dumb computer. If I remember correctly Titans are actually worse when playing on small monitors than the weaker graphic cards because they’re made for big screens. More expensive isn’t always better. I’d question the mobo, CPU, water cooler, memories, SSD and graphics card choice if it’s meant to be a gaming computer.

Ultra high resolution? 1920x1200? :) Also: minimum is a useless measure because in basically any game using any computer it is possible to hit 0. Absolute minimum also depends wildly on chance. What should be benchmarked is combat scenarios of which I believe the benchmark tested one which is a big step away from an empty map. In my overclocking tests Showcase: Infantry has shown the least improvement compared to empty Stratis/Altis and Showcase: Helicopters leading my to believe it is more computing intensive than the others. It may be small according to some standards. However benchmarking in scenarios with a hundred AI is completely backwards because that’s not what you’re going to play most of the time. I do down to earth benchmarks and benchmark what I play and so far in ARMA I have mostly been playing quite small scale scenarios and I bet most other people do too when they’re not playing online which more or less seems to blow for everyone spec independent. In my opinion saying ARMA is CPU dependent is wrong because graphics card makes a whole lot of difference in the scenarios I think most players will spend most of their time in which isn't crowded Altis.

I don't believe there are benchmarks for any of your specs and if you want to spend $1100 or $1300 is like ok whatever it's more than $300 so you're probably going to max everything the graphics card does anyways :) You clearly don’t intend only to ARMA with your computer so whatever you have in mind you can surely google which of your graphics card alternatives would do that the best. Basically what I’m saying is both your alternatives will probably be as good in ARMA so you should look to what else they can do. Me I don’t trust crossfiring. So I would go with the one Titan. Except I wouldn’t. I would buy a Wii and some small third-world country. What sort of monitor are you using anyways? I don't believe anyone here has too much knowledge about computers above $3000-ish... mostly high-end mainstream gaming machines with cost-efficiency here.

Day Z even has bipods!

So did anyone benchmark the difference or are we all talking out of our wonderful, big asses of hopefulness here? ;)

You shouldn't have to ask the question if you're buying a computer of such specifications and if you do have to ask then this is clearly the wrong site to do so. Only you know what you want to do with your computer and how much you are willing to spend so you're best off googling benchmarks for your desired work assignment by yourself.

I've always hated dual-monitors... the seams, ugh. Some users have dual monitors so they can game, Skype and stream at the same time on different monitors which is handy I suppose. However note that if you upgrade to a 2560x1440 monitor your fps in all games will be cut down to 40% instantly. Because screen size is proportional to gaming fps more or less. So if you do upgrade you should buy a graphics card at the same time preferably. Currently I would not use more than 1920x1080. I’m on 1920x1200 which is nice for Windows use however in gaming I often wish I was on 1920x1080 which probably would mean 10%+ fps… So buy a 1920x1080 cheaply, or wait for the next generation of graphics cards to come out during summer and buy a monitor and new graphics card at the same time. I’d say this winter is a great time to upgrade monitor and graphics card. By winter hopefully there will have been some price drops. The GTX 770 I bought last August dropped from $540 to $390 (70%) in November basically… note to self: never buy graphics cards in summer. That’s how it works. They come in summer and price crash in winter. That’s when you strike. Currently I’m only on a one year old graphics card and I love my monitor too. I’m thinking I should probably wait until winter 2016 to wait for something like 4K to become the standard then buy a 4K monitor and a new graphics card… and hopefully my 2013 CPU won’t crumble :p

Okay wait... "Steelbeasts"... the screenshots on their website look like an early 90s tank simulator... googling gives something a bit more late 90s early 2000s. Is that more accurate? A tank simulator to go with the pretty big availability of flight sims would be nice. Basically I'd like to try a bit of everything that ARMA doesn't simulate too accurately. See what it's like in an aircraft, tank, sub and so on. DCS has sort of caught my attention. However without a joystick it is terrible (turning, at least, since it requires smooth movement) and I don't want to bring out my ol' sloppy-sticked Trustmaster. Maybe I'll buy a HOTAS and play it some more in summer.

Buy a 4670K instead. 4670K is 4770K without hyper-threading and hyper-threading is mostly useless for gaming and sometimes even make games slower. Someone showed a 4770K to be somewhat better in a 4670K somewhere but I've tested disabling HT on my 4770K myself and strongly doubt there's a difference. A 4670K + Z87 mobo should cost about €330 +/-.

That's a shame. I thought BIS and NVidia were going to cooperate back before the game came out but that never seemed to happen. ---------- Post added at 17:48 ---------- Previous post was at 17:47 ---------- That's still not entirely true. In Techspots test a one year older graphics card comparing the Titan to 7770 makes a 400% difference while a three year old CPU makes only an 82% difference :p In 2560x1600 there's a 600% difference between 770 SLI and the weakest 480 which is three years older. Graphics cards always make an important difference. Allegedly the minimum framerate during heavy action is about the same for everyone but I've never seen that in any test. Saying games are more or less CPU-dependent is sort of tricky.

Viewing lots of buildings: lots of geometry, CPU/graphics card sweats. I’m not sure how HDD/memory affects this however intermittent stuttering sounds quite HDD/memory-ish. Could very well be something moving in or out of cache/memory. 8MB cache is a lot less than the 64MB cache mine has so I would suggest you google about what effects that may have. Also 40 down to 8 fps is quite massive. Do you have any idea what the full specs of the computer is? What settings? Also try the usual: update mobo bios, mobo drivers, graphics card drivers, turn off as many background programs as possible, watch CPU/Graphics/HDD/Memory use while playing and temperatures. May be able to detect an issue somewhere. Since you’re on a laptop you may also want to try changing power settings in Control Panel/NVidia Control Panel to Maximum Performance and see if it makes any difference. Could be power saving.

Wasn't down when I wrote it though.

Early in the morning European time all BIS sites seem to go down... even Day-Z sites. Maintenance?

Most tweaks outside of the game are BS. NVidia anisotropic filtering makes a difference and if I remember correctly trilinear optimization did something too. That’s all I can think of spontaneously. Update everything (mobo bios/drivers, graphics card drivers), close as many background programs as possible. That's about it. Make sure memory and the drive isn't full. I've tried Razer Game Booster and it didn't do anything. I doubt GeForce Experience is any better. MSI mobos also come with VGBoost or something that I also couldn't get to do anything. I've yet to see a command line edit do anything. Can you edit the game settings in detail anywhere? I'd love to have high object and terrain detail without parallax and too much grass... maybe without any grass. Currently playing with both on standard instead. Crysis could be tweaked in detail to kill pop-ins.

Most of it. The best thing is to start in an empty editor with one car, a tank, a helicopter and an aircraft then clear your keybindings and start binding them one by one as you start noticing what you need and then go through the list and see if there's anything you missed. Only you will know what you need. Mostly vehicle commands can be done using the menu.

Neighbours must die!!

There are lots of free anti-virus programs. Win 7 has Security Essentials installed already I believe and Win 8 has Defender which is not the same Defender as is included in Win 7. I never understood the difference between anti-virus, anti-malware, anti-spyware and so on… I’m just hoping I don’t have any of it and that Win 8 Defender does its job well :p

I doubt you've benchmarked a significant difference. Edit: within 1 fps I didn't detect any difference on empty Stratis, Showcase: Infantry or Showcase: Helicopters 60 seconds of testing... Maybe it works better on weaker computers maybe it doesn't.

Body control is quite complex. 4 walking speeds, 9 stances, leaning when not sit-aiming or lying down, rolling sideways when lying down, sitting, stepping over and independent head movement. Gun handling isn’t all too complex though and all vehicles are very basic. Oh, you can also lie on your back... tricky though.

Yes, I think you would have to un-install Windows on your old computer before installing it on the new one for it to work. (or as OldBear said) When it comes to case there are some pretty small computers nowadays basically the size of a shoebox I believe (25x20x40 cm). I’ve never had one though and don’t know how much hotter they are. Mine’s a massive 33x46x41 cube. Standard towers are the most common though. I believe they’re usually about the size of mine except cut in half though some are bigger and some are smaller. Overclocking is quite complicated however there’s a software called Command Centre that does everything for you. However it’s only good for up to about 4.4 GHz with good cooling whereas manual overclocking may get you higher than that, 4.8 tops. In ARMA3 my 4770K at stock clock which is basically 3.4-3.9 GHz depending on what the CPU needs at the time and in overclock to 4.4 GHz and also a memory overclock from 1333 MHz to 1600 MHz (noticed this a while ago, no idea why 1600 isn’t default… thought it was) doesn’t make much of a difference in gameplay. In a benchmark mission it made a difference, on an empty Altis in the editor it made a difference and in Showcase: Helicopters it made a difference I believe however in Showcase: Infantry and in empty Stratis in the editor it didn’t make a difference so I’m quite confused as to what sort of an improvement it really does when playing an actual mission. Automatic overclocking just needs one thing that all overclocking needs: some sort of extra CPU cooling. At least I’m not sure how well you can do without it. Haswell gets hot quickly. One SSD (solid state drive) and one HDD (hard disk drive) is good because HDDs are cheap as hell nowadays while SSDs are expensive but quick so today the best decision is to buy a 60-256GB SSD to install Windows (makes Windows quicker) and store whatever else you use often while the HDD is sort of back-up storage for when your SSD runs out. SSDs are quickly becoming cheaper which is why it would be quite foolish to buy a 500GB-1TB size SSD. Not that I wouldn’t love to have all my junk on just one SSD. With 240GB you should be able to have Windows, all your documents, music, productivity programs (Adobe, Microsoft) and a good number of games all on the SSD. That leaves the HDD for about a billion more games when you need it, downloads, movies and so on. The good thing about not having a thing on your HDD is you can set it to spin down when not in use so it turns completely quiet which is nice if you have a silent computer. I’m not sure how silent your computer will be though. The number one noise source will be the power supply unit… seems to be approximately up to 40 dBA in tests though it’s hard to tell how much that actually is. Should be quite silent but I don’t think you’ll have to worry about your HDD being louder.

Hm... Case is up to you. That motherboard and that CPU doesn't support overclocking I believe however overclocking doesn't do much of a difference on Haswell CPUs anyways so no major loss there. Memories should be 8GB, that’s more than enough. Some would also buy quicker memories however I suppose you won’t lose much with 1600 MHz. And all the other specs are good. HOWEVER the cost seems maybe about £200 high. Both adding up individual components in Sweden or on Amazon.co.uk I come up to £900 even. Maybe the store charges for construction and installation? I suppose £72 could be that but it’s still £100 high then. Maybe you should consider a different store. Maybe cut down to 8GB memories then search for someone offering a similar computer at £8-900? In the UK I’m sure you have a lot of options. I’m not sure how much extra stores usually charge since they have to make some money. Maybe £200 high is customary. Also on spec improvements: being able to overclock would be comfortable though I don't believe it makes much of a difference in ARMA3 at all. Also some advocate 2400 MHz memories and I'm actually going to benchmark this next week. Until then there hasn't been any conclusive testing showing their benefits in ARMA3. Buying new is a better idea than trying to upgrade your old stuff. If money if tight search for a cheaper store, only buy 8GB memories (£50 off), consider a 760 graphics card instead of 770 (£70 off) and consider a 128GB SSD (£30 off at least). Also if you already have Win 7 64-bit or someone else has a copy to spare then that’s about £70 off. You could save maybe £120-400 by finding a cheaper store and cutting down as described above.

Disable all mods... issue solved?