Exclamation Question Upgrading my pc for dayZ need suggestions on my upgrades!

[stevch0 0]

yes i'm a newbie here hey everyone, i've been wanting to play this game for the longest time, just never got to it because my pc isn't up to par and i dont feel like watching a slideshow when i play so i need everyone's help!!

first i'll post my current system specs:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5000+ @ 2.6 GHz (brisbane) (weak crap)

Windows 7 ultimate 64 bit

4 GB of ram

K9A2 CF Version 1 motherboard

GeForce 8500 GT DDR3 (weak)

SPI ATX-400PN 400W Power Supply

so with research and some recommendations i decided on these upgrades,

-New gpu MSI Geforce GTS 450

-new cpu AMD Phenom II X4 945 Quad Core Processor

-not sure if i need to upgrade my power supply aswell any suggestions would be great

everything else will stay in the comp, as with the motherboard i know its an older one but don't really feel like replacing it now, knowing it supports AM2+/AM3 processors and has two pci-e slots for dual cards so i think it'll do the job with the upgrades just fine again let me know if its a MUST that i replace it with a new one.

thanks again guys i just want a great Dayz experience!!

[xxcampbellxx 1]

dont upgrade just to play dayz its not worth it dude wait till the standalone thats propberly your best bet the population of the mod it falling drastically

[bobstefanio 24]

Your motherboard will support the processor so no problems there. However 400w is not a lot of power now a days the quad core you have listed will take about 125 watts and under load the graphics card will take about 220 watts that's 345 watts a single hard drive is about 15 watts reading and writing (rounding up) 360 watts not leaving a whole load of room for fans lights extra hard drives disk drives and anything else you have on your machine but if your running the standard 2 fans 1 hard drive and very few lights then the power supply might just be enough although I would upgrade if i was you for future purposes.

[stevch0 0]

yeah i'll probably pickup a new psu, ive changed my mind aswell for the gpu im going with the eVGA Geforce GTX 550Ti not sure how it will stack up with arma II/DayZ i'll be running at 1280 1024 what fps should i expect and at what settings? thanks!

[n'Zapador 20]

To get a ballpark figure on the PSU needed, go check out this site http://extreme.outer...culatorlite.jsp

I'm playing on a laptop with an i7 2670QM (4x2.2 GHz, 3.1 turbo I think...), 16 gigs of DDR3-12800 and a GTX 560M 3 GB.

I run the game at 1920x1080, but setting it to 1280x720 instead gives me exactly ZERO additional FPS - it seems that resolution has no (or very little) impact on performance.

If you use sensible settings, eg no AA, no post-processing and other heavy stuff, you should get down to 15-18 FPS in worst cases and up to 45 or so when its going well.

You might want to add some more RAM to your computer, I know that it doesn't matter in terms of speed.... but then again, it kinda does... cause with 4 you're likely to run a bit short of RAM quite often thus resulting in more HDD caching.

If you want to greatly improve load-times get a SSD.

Edited August 30, 2012 by n'Zapador