traderjay

Thanks all for the replies! I will try to minimize him watching me playing co-op. Fortunately, most of the time I use thermal IR scope so everything just glows white. I tell my son they are snowmans that I am trying to melt! I started playing Arma since Operation Flashpoint and never looked back!

I am in a kind of a dilemma here...I was exploring the new Tanoa island in editor on a blackhawk when my son came into the room. He got captivated by the lush landscape and stood there watching. I figured since its an empty island there is not much harm having him side beside me and watch. Soon he figured out how to control the plane, vehicles and characters and wanted to try things out himself. Now he wants to watch me play arma 3 for at least 30 minutes a day...even when I am playing online... I figured the game is not overly gory and there are lots of things I can teach him so maybe should I just let him watch and learn?

I finally got the system up and running with the final specs below. Pleasantly surprised that I am able to maintain FPS above 50 in most MP situations with everything maxed out (View distance 4000 m). Since the 64 bit update, I am seeing improved core utilization and my XEON single core turbo really helps with the performance. The Samsung NVME SSD also aids tremendously with the load times and textures. CPU - Dual Xeon E5 2696V4 RAM - 64 GB Crucial DDR4 PC-2666 (8x8GB) Storage: 2X800GB HGST SAS SSD RAID 0 for application/scratch disk OS - Samsung 1TB 960 Pro NVME GPU - ASUS Strix GTX 1080 ti Case - Lian-Li PC-V2120x Motherboard - z10pe-d16 ws PSU - Seasonic Titanium 1000W

Thanks all for the replies! For my non-gaming task, I need as many physical cores as possible hence the decision to go with the dual Xeon configuration. For those of you who are not familiar with the XEONS, although the core clock speed is slower than the desktop counterparts, it has different turbo speeds depending on the core load. For example my CPU have a seven core load turbo speed of 3 Ghz. I hope this, along withe DDR4 PC 2666 will give me a decent performance in Arma 3. I've also read that the GTX 970 is more than adequate for this game and will hold off the purchase of the 1080 ti. Once my system is ready, I'll report back with benchmarks :)

Hi all - I've been an eternal Arma fan and basically grew up with this franchise from the Operation Flashpoint days. I am currently in the process of building a workstation for video editing, financial computation and scientific simulation and to play Arma 3 :) I know high clock speed, IPC, RAM and and storage speed is king for this game but I hope the new workstation with the following spec can at least provide a decent experience: CPU - Dual XEON E5 2696 V3 (22 core) (4 core turbo 3.3Ghz, 7 core turbo 3 Ghz) RAM - DDR4 ECC PC 2666 Mhz (crucial 8 x 8 Gb) Storage: Application/Games 2x HGST 800GB SAS SSD in RAID 0 OS Windows 10 Pro - Samsung SSD 850 Pro 512 GB GPU - Nvidia GTX 1080 ti I am currently using a i7-3970x with the GTX 970 and I am hoping this new system will offer a decent performance boost.