New build help to run arma 3 and dayz etc...

Threepwood said:
Doing it now saves money in the longer run and can be done on almost budget really.
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But you are speccing something that is contrary to what the OP has asked for and telling him he should get it because of the future. He clearly predominantly plays arma / milsim based games and has asked us to help him spec a new build to play those as his current requirements with his monitor. A 1060 will run any game faultlessly at 720/1080p that he is currently using. And even if he upgrades to 1440p it won't be a problem. So i really don't see why you are trying to push his budget up by £136-£236 for something that he wont be able to even use 100% of in the games he plays.

OP this is what i would personally recommend as an arma player myself.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £1,023.17
(includes shipping: £12.30)
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The reason i chose the more expensive nvme ssd is because it will really help a lot having arma installed on that, you will know what i am talking about when i refer to the lag when you ADS with a x34lrr scope or Zoom in far away and you for some reason stop to a halt, thats because the drive is struggling to stream the parts in required to render that area. ssds help a lot with this and a lot less fps dips occur thanks to fast ssds.

You will get a good performance boost from overclocking the cpu as well as those style games really like a high clock speed, it really isn't a difficult thing to do just slightly unsettling the first time you start to tinker, but that fast goes away. And you can always ask on here, there are lots of people willing to give excellent advice.
 
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Thank you for all your replies. Great info and I understand the aurgunent from the 1060 and 1070 camps. If I was to build this in 6 months I could probably go all out and really spec it up but for now I will looking at Harry's build as it will be the most cost effective and probably very easy to upgrade later if I decide to. You have all offered very sound and understandable advice and gave greatly helped a guy who wasn't quite sure on how to put all the components together. And looks like I will be having a tinker with overclocking.
 
It's up to you ofc :)

But you could take harrys spec and remove the HDD, get a cheaper SSD, CPU, MB, RAM, CASE and you would be able to get the 1070 within budget :P Back to square one!

Personally I would up the budget by 10% and grab better stuff and do it right now. For me this saves time and money in the long run. I certainly would not be buying skylake when kaby is here and, cheaper. But then, right now I personally would not buy until we see what the up coming AMD cpus are like.

lag when you ADS with a x34lrr scope or Zoom in far away and you for some reason stop to a halt, thats because the drive is struggling to stream the parts in required to render that area. ssds help a lot with this and a lot less fps dips occur thanks to fast ssds.
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This will all be greatly reduced when arma moves to 64bit, its on the dev branch now so can't be long.



Glad you are set on giving overclocking a go, its really easy now to get a good cpu boost and really gives arma a push :D
 
Threepwood said:
It's up to you ofc :)

But you could take harrys spec and remove the HDD, get a cheaper SSD, CPU, MB, RAM, CASE and you would be able to get the 1070 within budget :P Back to square one!

We could go on like this all day so i just wont retort.

This will all be greatly reduced when arma moves to 64bit, its on the dev branch now so can't be long.

Yes, it's been in dev branch for a while, and whilst it does benefit from having access to more memory a faster SSD will still benefit this is still known to be true on the test servers. & a SSD will be something that benefits the OP in everyday use. So why not get one that's blazing fast?

Glad you are set on giving overclocking a go, its really easy now to get a good cpu boost and really gives arma a push :D

Absolutely, Arma <3 coreclock
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We could go on like this all day so i just wont retort.
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I would let it lie, but the build I suggested includes win10 and a couple of front fans + thermal paste?

So if we take off the £110 for those my build costs TEN POUNDS LESS than yours and comes with a 1070, Kaby instead of skylake, better psu etc..

.. come on man, you can min/max better than this :S

Good luck in your Quest Bowie!

/Beep-beep-beep
 
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Ha ha..... ladies ladies...... after all your views and ideas there has been a pre built pc put up on the site. Titan jigsaw which, as another poster has already commented on, looks almost to good to be true. Now I am sure you will both have an opinion on this pre built pc but for the same price as I could build it for, I could get this pre built and overclocked with a decent warranty alongside. Will try to put a link on here but it's in the sale section of the overclockers website I really do want to build it my self (with help from a friend) as it would feel like 'MY' pc but at that price??????
 
With the 21% off that is a lot of bang for buck.

Upping your budget by 10% to get an i7 and a 1070 OS etc, and pre built with warranty? No brainer, really good spot.

Do it. Do it now!
 
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