[C5] K1T
Posts:233
 | | 19 Jun 2009 1:24 PM |
| Just wondered whos got it or getting it?Â
Just installing mine now....
I bought mine from game for £24.99, think its the same price at tesco as well 
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Goraq
Posts:0
| | 19 Jun 2009 2:14 PM |
| | i will be when my copy turns up from play, damn postal service | | | |
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ogri
Posts:446
| | 19 Jun 2009 3:24 PM |
| | Will be playing it from the 30th, just to give kit a chance! | | | |
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Swifty_Capone
Posts:0
| | 19 Jun 2009 4:17 PM |
| PC turns up tomorrow. Will install and be online! Moist Love | | | |
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ogri
Posts:446
| | 20 Jun 2009 10:09 AM |
| Posted By [C5] Swifty_Capone on 19 Jun 2009 4:17 PM PC turns up tomorrow. Will install and be online! Moist Love
luv ur optimism | | | |
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Parabolic
Posts:359
| | 20 Jun 2009 10:47 PM |
| I have it.
Although it doesn't run too well on my machine.
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Pocus
Posts:151
| | 21 Jun 2009 7:23 AM |
| it's a CPU hungry beast from my unofficial trial that I had, there's a lot of tweaking threads out there though. Some settings are best set on High if you've got a good gfx card so that it deals with them instead of the CPU etc.
http://cfarma2.com/forums/index.php?topic=31.0
unsure as to whether you can read those or not....PS that's the new tournament for ArmA2  | |
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[C5]3of5
Posts:276
| | 21 Jun 2009 1:51 PM |
| da woman has been sent out to buy it  | | | |
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[C5] Tongeh
Il Tongeh
Posts:666
| | 21 Jun 2009 3:21 PM |
| Found this which may help....
ArmA 2 CPU benchmarks: Test setup and results
For
our benchmarks we use the initial sequence of the third scenario
(Counterattack). With six A.I. soldiers, a tank and a lot of geometry
(high draw distance and many buildings) this scene primarily stresses
the processor. With practical graphics settings combined with an
overclocked Radeon HD 4890/1G - the best single GPU card for ArmA 2 -
we try avoid graphics limitation and give the CPU enough space to
display its capabilities.
On top of our CPU charts stand the
Core i7-920 running at 3.5 GHz (the setup we use for our graphics card
benchmarks) while a QX9770 which is set to 3.5 GHz, too, is about 20
percent slower and thus equally fast as an i7-940. The smallest Core
i7, the 920 with its default frequency of 2.67 GHz, noticeably beats
the Q9650 (4x 3.0 GHz). ArmA 2 likes cores better than megahertz and
thus an E8400 (2x 3.0 GHz) is beaten by a C2D Q6600 (4x 2.4 GHz) which
itself is only slightly faster than a Phenom X4 9950 BE. The difference
between a C2D E6600 (2x 2.4 GHz) and the C2Q Q6600 equals about 19
percent, while the Athlon X2 7850 BE and the Athlon 64 X2 6400+ are on
the same level as the C2D E6600. With a single-core CPU ArmA 2 is
unplayable - two cores are about 70 percent faster than a single one.
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Swifty_Capone
Posts:0
| | 21 Jun 2009 4:04 PM |
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Nice find Il Tongeh  | | | |
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[C5] Tongeh
Il Tongeh
Posts:666
| | 21 Jun 2009 4:49 PM |
| seems that more cores will help -
had already ordered 4890 yesterday 170-odd, just flashed me bios - ready for a 9950 X4 Phenom in (about 120 squid) - job done for me for a year methinks.
Going intel means i7 if at all now (920, mobo and 6gb DDR3) so an expensive option around 400 quid or more... I really quite justify that at the moment.. maybe when the i7 920's and boards drop a bit. | |
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[C5]3of5
Posts:276
| | 21 Jun 2009 8:02 PM |
| | don't forget people, firing a smaw at the commanding officer who is standing next to you, will kill you | | | |
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Goraq
Posts:0
| | 21 Jun 2009 8:21 PM |
| Well with regard to Intel
they will be soon dropping the 920 and 940 i7's around september and being replace by i3 and i5 ranges
which will be using the new lynnfield core, using a new LGA1156 socket and P55 Chipset (I belive anyway, the new core is coming but not sure if it will be branded i3 or i5)
just thought i would let you know this as the price of the old 920 and 940 will drop at this time, boards may still be expensive though. | | | |
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[C5]3of5
Posts:276
| | 21 Jun 2009 10:36 PM |
| shame theres no friends list 
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Varp
Posts:479
| | 22 Jun 2009 11:26 AM |
| Think there is - there's a friends button i found, but it was greyed out...will investigate
or use Xfire...  | |
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Goraq
Posts:0
| | 23 Jun 2009 11:45 PM |
| have they patched Xfire to recognise arma2 then?
last time i checked, sunday i think, it was not yet supported | | | |
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Varp
Posts:479
| | 24 Jun 2009 9:33 AM |
| | prolly will have by the time I'm back from London | |
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[C5]3of5
Posts:276
| | 24 Jun 2009 6:30 PM |
| | btw incase people are in doubt of weather this will run on there system, I am still running the same setup with a newer graphics card: amd x2 4800+, 2 gigs of ddr ram and an nvidia 9800 gt 1gig, it runs great | | | |
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Goraq
Posts:0
| | 24 Jun 2009 10:58 PM |
| !!!nodnoL ot enog s'praV
random bit of sillyness, sorry | | | |
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[C5] K1T
Posts:233
| | 24 Jun 2009 11:19 PM |
| Posted By [C5] Goraq on 24 Jun 2009 10:58 PM
!!!nodnoL ot enog s'praV
random bit of sillyness, sorry
your !!! are not back to front...  | |
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