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Truthfully, gaming has gotten boring, the same games over and over and over, with the same glitches and problems over and over and over.

But I met my true love; ArmA 3

So I'm gearing up.



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While you telling me if it'll run, why don't you send me a thousand dolla, ya?
 
Six core lol.

Most games only need two. All about preference, man.

AND 16 GB RAM ARE YOU MAD.
 
Not a bad case. You only need like 4gb of ram, maybe six if you really want too. You can drop $100 off that motherboard and look for a cheaper one and it'll still be as good. Invest that $100 possibly into a better card, comapre the card you have there to other ones. Maybe get an ATI card.

Edit: didn't even see that processor there hngh
 
Get an i5 2500k, GTX 570, 4 GB ram, Samsung F3 HDD, HAF 922 / 932 case, and a fitting mobo.
 
AMD CPU? AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

It's still producing on 45nm technology while Intel is using 32nm and making 22nm next year.
 
I would say that this setup can and will run the games more than fine for the next 3 to 5 years atleast. So if you have the money, go for it. Myself am more Intel, sandybridge kinda person but that's jsut my preference.

Those saying that 4 GB of DDR 3 is enough, emh, nooo. Not in my opinion atleast and certainly not according to these softwares I have on my and my friends PC's. Ram is constantly at around 89% usage when playing OLD games on Win 7, both for me and me friends be it a 32 bit or 64 bit os (Including but not limtied to steam and CD versions of Doom, Simcity 2000, Simcity 3000, Simcity 4, Sims 1, Black & White 1, Evil Genius, Ghsotmaster, Startopia, Dragonshard which is not that old really but anyways, Homeworlds, Nox, Oddworlds, Half-Life 1's etc). And it is not a memoryleak or anything else of that sort, of that I am more than sure and it has been verified by proper specialists. Now on a setup with 6 gb of DDR3 or Hyperx, Aaaah RAM usage stays in a pleasant 40% while playing those and newer ones. Not to mentions the difference of 8GB to 4GB which is just spectacular. Alas, this is just me speaking again from my own experience.
 
FYI, that CPU overheats like a bitch if you just use the heatsink provided. Hope you have a decent cooling system or you're going to need to buy a new heatsink.
 
I'd avoid falling for AMD's more-cores-equals-better scheme - unless you happen to be an engineering student doing a lot of work with highly specialized software, you'll be having a difficult time finding any software you'd need more than two cores to run. AMD does good budget CPUs, but if you want something a little more future-proof, get yourself an Intel i7 processor and a corresponding mainboard; I'd personally recommend Asus' ROG series as I've been having a stellar time with those, but they can get a little expensive so keep your eyes open.

Likewise, 4 gigs of branded DDR3 RAM (I'd recommend Corsair, but there are other good brands as well) should be more than enough unless you happen to be some sort of developer. Going up to 8 gigs might be worth a thought if you have some surplus money, but I'd rather focus on your CPU and GPU, particularly as adding RAM tends to be fairly cheap whereas the aforementioned pieces of hardware are expensive single-purchase objects.

Regarding the PSU you've got there - buy one with a higher wattage, 800 would be good, but make sure you stick to the single rail layout your current selection is using. Your chosen GPU is alright, but once again I'll repeat myself stating that it is better to go expensive with single-purchase hardware to prolong the time until you'll need to upgrade again. Buy a high-end GPU now and you'll get to keep it for the next five years, buy a budget GPU and you might have to replace it in 2-3 years already. Oh, and lastly - get 7 Ultimate. Don't settle for crippleware. If you can't afford it, I'm sure you know other places to get it.
 
Have to agree on the PSU part. I myself have currently a Corsair TX 650 if I recall correctly which has served me without any problems at all. 600 is fine but playing it safe never hurts either. If the technology development continues on the path it has chosen, 800W PSU should be more than sufficent i nthe gray future as well, since from what I have seen and read, the manufacturers are pushing out hardware that demands less power and grants far more powerfull things than the current / two to three years ago parts which demanded ludicrous amounts of power.
 
Get 8 gigs of RAM, not 4 or 6. 4 won't be enough and 6 will be in tri-channel.
 
Generally for gamers G.Skill is considered one of the higher tiers in game performance quality, but if you go for 6 to 8gigs of ram buy better ram and you need less. Also it looks like that mobo supports dual gfx's. You can't go wrong with that but you will be looking at a 800watt power supply some day.

Currently you can get the Core i5 2400k series cpu and overclock that little bastard to 4.8ghz comfortably. You would spend less then your original build and the i5 screams with just voltage tweaks.
 
So your saying this will support 2 Vid cards? I have an 8400 in my current computer, and instead of it going to waste, I could shove this one into that mobo along with the 550 with no issues aside from the power supply?
 
dual gfx cards are not supported on your new mobo selection, and for dual mode to work the cards have to be the same models as well.
 
4 gigs is enough for gaming.

McCrae, getting a better psu later is money wasting. Do like I did, get a 1000 watt quality PSU. ( I have a Silverstone. )

If you're just gaming, get an i5 2500k, and a gigabyte ud mobo with gskill 4 / 8 GB kit.
And get a better case ( HAF 922 / 932, Coolermaster CM 690 II etc etc )
And get an SSD combined with a Samsung F3.


i7's are for WORKING, like rendering etc.

Your budget is how much exactly?
 
As cheap as possible. Definitely under a thousand.

And I'm aiming to play ArmA 3, assuming the released requirements are reccommended.
 
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