Floyd Mayweather 82 Posted July 16, 2019 Report Share Posted July 16, 2019 Hello, basically self explanatory title. PC Specs: Dell G3 15 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-9300H 9th Gen CPU @ 2.40GHz Nvidia GEFORCE GTX 1660 Ti w/ Max-q Design 15.6 Full HD IPS Display Thermal Cooling NVIDIA Discrete Graphic <1 /21.6 mm thin Game Shift It's a laptop by the way, wanted to know how it'd do on Arma or your thoughts / opinions, I'm downloading Arma on it, got it for my birthday on the 6th of July. I've tested it on the games I have downloaded Graphics 200% everything Ultra and I remain above 160+ FPS. Thanks. I know it's an upgrade though for a fact, old PC was an Toshiba AMD Radeon R4 Series. Quote Link to comment
MAV 1617 Posted July 16, 2019 Report Share Posted July 16, 2019 It may do alright... The GPU will be fine, just the CPU may be a bottleneck for Arma.. give it a try and let us know how you make out! 1 Quote Link to comment
Floyd Mayweather 82 Posted July 16, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2019 Just now, MAV said: It may do alright... The GPU will be fine, just the CPU may be a bottleneck for Arma.. give it a try and let us know how you make out! Alrighty, thanks and yeah I have 2 GPU's, Intel & Nvidia, so Arma is based off of CPU? Quote Link to comment
Richard 595 Posted July 16, 2019 Report Share Posted July 16, 2019 5 minutes ago, d a e q u a n said: Alrighty, thanks and yeah I have 2 GPU's, Intel & Nvidia, so Arma is based off of CPU? For the most part. My understanding is gpu may alleviate some issues with cpu, but arma is very cpu intensive. 1 13 Quote Link to comment
Floyd Mayweather 82 Posted July 16, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2019 5 minutes ago, Richard said: For the most part. My understanding is gpu may alleviate some issues with cpu, but arma is very cpu intensive. Interesting, I have 4 cores and 8 processors is that good? Quote Link to comment
Jack Stanford 0 Posted July 16, 2019 Report Share Posted July 16, 2019 8 minutes ago, d a e q u a n said: Alrighty, thanks and yeah I have 2 GPU's, Intel & Nvidia, so Arma is based off of CPU? Yeah, arma is pretty cpu intensive and really just dependent on clock speed. Quote Link to comment
Floyd Mayweather 82 Posted July 16, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2019 Just now, Jack Stanford said: Yeah, arma is pretty cpu intensive and really just dependent on clock speed. Hm, hopefully I can stay above 75 on cap & when fighting / driving. https://gyazo.com/93a6db38007ccadb181825c65a08e71c results after online extreme test. Quote Link to comment
Jerrod 831 Posted July 16, 2019 Report Share Posted July 16, 2019 1 hour ago, d a e q u a n said: Alrighty, thanks and yeah I have 2 GPU's, Intel & Nvidia, so Arma is based off of CPU? mostly based off of cpu 3 Quote Link to comment
Floyd Mayweather 82 Posted July 16, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2019 Just now, Jerrod said: mostly based off of cpu well damn Quote Link to comment
Richard 595 Posted July 16, 2019 Report Share Posted July 16, 2019 1 hour ago, d a e q u a n said: Interesting, I have 4 cores and 8 processors is that good? I run an i5-6700k I believe. 32gb ram, gigabyte gtx 1070 and I have 0 issues with arma. I have contemplated upping my cpu to a i7-7700k or better, but hate the idea of tossing my old processor in a closet and collecting dust. This game is pushing 6 years old. Next gen is not necessary. I think you’ll be fine with what you have. Only recommendation is don’t buy a laptop next time and build a desktop. 17 Quote Link to comment
doctor doom 250 Posted July 16, 2019 Report Share Posted July 16, 2019 BRO WE HAVE THE SAME LAPTOP Quote Link to comment
Floyd Mayweather 82 Posted July 16, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2019 30 minutes ago, Richard said: I run an i5-6700k I believe. 32gb ram, gigabyte gta 1070 and I have 0 issues with arma. I have contemplated upping my cpu to a i7-7700k, but hate the idea of tossing my old processor in a closet and collecting dust. This game is pushing 6 years old. Next gen is not necessary. I think you’ll be fine with what you have. Only recommendation is don’t buy a laptop next time and build a desktop. alright boss 25 minutes ago, Doctor Doom said: BRO WE HAVE THE SAME LAPTOP LEGIT? Quote Link to comment
Strikke 751 Posted July 16, 2019 Report Share Posted July 16, 2019 5 hours ago, d a e q u a n said: Alrighty, thanks and yeah I have 2 GPU's, Intel & Nvidia, so Arma is based off of CPU? When you use a GPU like the 1660 ti the intel integrated graphics automatically turn of btw. And yes Arma prefers single core performance CPUs way more than GPU or anything else. 1 Quote Link to comment
Floyd Mayweather 82 Posted July 16, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2019 15 minutes ago, Strikke said: When you use a GPU like the 1660 ti the intel integrated graphics automatically turn of btw. And yes Arma prefers single core performance CPUs way more than GPU or anything else. Ah okay, so would it be the 4 cores or 8 processors? sorry not too much of a computer part genius Okay so when I check affinity I have 8 CPU's, 7 not counting the all check mark. Quote Link to comment
Strikke 751 Posted July 16, 2019 Report Share Posted July 16, 2019 2 minutes ago, d a e q u a n said: Ah okay, so would it be the 4 cores or 8 processors? sorry not too much of a computer part genius So your CPU has 4 cores and 8 Threads (kinda like processors ye). Dont get cought up in this to much as for most games you dont need really high core counts as long as the few cores you have are fast and good (the CPU you have isnt the best but it will probably do just fine for gaming and other office tasks etc.. but dont expect to have the best of the best computer) Most games only use one or two cores to "fully" to run the game and this is a inefficient way of running the game (arma is the king of single core usage)(Single core usage does not mean that all the cores/threads arent being used however the main parts only gets run on one or two cores and everything else gets spread out) Your GPU is good. all i have to say Quote Link to comment
Floyd Mayweather 82 Posted July 16, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2019 51 minutes ago, Strikke said: So your CPU has 4 cores and 8 Threads (kinda like processors ye). Dont get cought up in this to much as for most games you dont need really high core counts as long as the few cores you have are fast and good (the CPU you have isnt the best but it will probably do just fine for gaming and other office tasks etc.. but dont expect to have the best of the best computer) Most games only use one or two cores to "fully" to run the game and this is a inefficient way of running the game (arma is the king of single core usage)(Single core usage does not mean that all the cores/threads arent being used however the main parts only gets run on one or two cores and everything else gets spread out) Your GPU is good. all i have to say Alright, thanks! Quote Link to comment
Floyd Mayweather 82 Posted July 16, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2019 alright, finally on arma, in the main menu i get 100+ fps on everything with ultra, turning those down as I wont be recording anything but montages and stuff for support cases. Quote Link to comment
Floyd Mayweather 82 Posted July 16, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2019 Alright did a few stress testing, in a server of 100 people I get 75 fps in combat and in a server of 70 and under I get 120+ in combat Quote Link to comment
doctor doom 250 Posted July 16, 2019 Report Share Posted July 16, 2019 15 hours ago, d a e q u a n said: alright boss LEGIT? bruh yes. bitch runs S M O O T H Quote Link to comment
Noahhh! 3599 Posted July 16, 2019 Report Share Posted July 16, 2019 Also, a good thing to note is that a decent amount of video setting's load can be placed on either your GPU or CPU based on how high or low it is set... But as a general rule, Arma 3 is definitely more CPU driven than GPU driven. When I upgraded from an i3 dual core to an i5 quad core, I saw decent improvements. I saw similar improvements when I upgraded from a mini GTX 960 to a 980ti. Quote Link to comment
Floyd Mayweather 82 Posted July 16, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2019 11 minutes ago, Noahhh! said: Also, a good thing to note is that a decent amount of video setting's load can be placed on either your GPU or CPU based on how high or low it is set... But as a general rule, Arma 3 is definitely more CPU driven than GPU driven. When I upgraded from an i3 dual core to an i5 quad core, I saw decent improvements. I saw similar improvements when I upgraded from a mini GTX 960 to a 980ti. Ah, well that explains this https://gyazo.com/395c1e06d50294b41832fd59c7561c11 Quote Link to comment
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