New To Dayz

[KILLG00N 0]

I'm looking for a new computer. I want to be able to run Dayz and Skype with out lag or choppiness. It needs to be a laptop and as cheap as possible. Any ideas or suggestions?

[beastoverlord 574]

Laptop and cheap at the same time? If you want a cheap computer go desktop.

[dulix11 731]

Laptops will struggle with DayZ/ArmA. Desktops are the way to go.

[KILLG00N 0]

Alright. So what advice would you guys give me then? What are good laptops that will run it? Or good desktops?

[beastoverlord 574]

My laptop is $2,500 and it still runs DayZ like crap. (Although it runs most other games 60+ FPS on max settings) Get a desktop for $1000 and you can run it easily.

[KILLG00N 0]

Ok thanks. Are there any you recommend me looking at?

[beastoverlord 574]

Custom building it if you can will save you probably 30% at least.

[dulix11 731]

The CPU would need to be at least 3.0GHz for smooth gameplay.

The GPU needs to be in the higher end if you want excellent quality, otherwise anything else should run it on low.

8 gigs of RAM is ideal and also improves performance.

If you can find a laptop that includes all that (which I have, in a JB-HI FI catalouge, 3.2GHz, Radeon 7750 and 1TB HDD, only for about $750 AUD.) I will be surprised.

And BeastOverlord is right, building it will save you money and is pretty easy.

[King of Blackheath 6]

I recently built my first one, and although there a possibly better deals out there for the more experienced PC builder, for a first try I am pretty happy. The spec is:

CPU - AMD A8 5600k - Quad Core 3.6Ghz

GPU - GTX 660 Ti (2gb)

Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-F2A85XM-DH3 (probably my weakest element)

RAM - 8gb Kingston 1333mhz

Hard Drive - 128Gb SanDisk SSD

I can run Dayz on high settings and it has no problems. All of that cost me about £650 (with dvd drive, mouse, keyboard and case etc, as I started with absolutely nothing)

[KILLG00N 0]

thanks guys

[boneboys 7988]

Alright. So what advice would you guys give me then?

Check through here for laptops http://dayzmod.com/f...ers-your-specs/

If you have any questions ask here http://dayzmod.com/f...un-it-ask-here/

Read the Stickies, use the Search Function.

[KILLG00N 0]

Thanks. Does anyone have any tips or anything they can tell me? I want to build a desktop, but have never done it before. I'm looking to spend about $700-$800 and have no idea what I'm doing. Would I just be better off buying a prebuilt computer?

[Tony752 1]

This topic does say its for new people to the mod so I'll just put my questions out there. Arma 2 runs on Steam, so that means you are running DayZ through Steam. Does that mean my Steam name is the name that appears to other players when (for example) I connect to a server or do I have some sort of other name I would go by?