Arma 3 Gaming PC build --- help

[Jason1232]

1. Budget & Location

about 600-700 GBP 

2. Aim

Gaming, mainly ARMA 3.

I have and will be moving to the next build:
-My graphics cards (as my budget is tight and i am waiting for vega)

-My 1000w Gold 80+ PSU

 

3. Monitors

I have 2x 1920x1080 monitors.

4. Peripherals

dont need any of that^

5. Why are you upgrading?

10fps in arma not fun. Massive CPU bottleneck,

 

[Stardar1]

1 minute ago, Jason1232 said:

1. Budget & Location

about 600-700 GBP 

2. Aim

Gaming, mainly ARMA 3.

I have and will be moving to the next build:
-My graphics cards (as my budget is tight and i am waiting for vega)

-My 1000w Gold 80+ PSU

 

3. Monitors

I have 2x 1920x1080 monitors.

4. Peripherals

dont need any of that^

5. Why are you upgrading?

10fps in arma not fun. Massive CPU bottleneck,

 

what gpu do you have?

[Jason1232]

Just now, Stardar1 said:

what gpu do you have?

2x Readon HD 7870's

[The Sloth]

get a 7700k and overclock it. 

[Stardar1]

Just now, Jason1232 said:

2x Readon HD 7870's

I'd recommend an i5 6500 with whatever motherboard and ram are cost effective. 

 

as for case, I'm a phanteks phanboy, I think they make phantastic cases with good phans. (im sorry), but that's really preference. 

[Jason1232]

Ideally i need the highest possible single core performance (within budget)

[zMeul]

ARMA3 needs very fast CPUs

here's an idea: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/ OC as much as you can that CPU, even get higher freq RAM

ARMA3 perf scales with core clock speed and RAM speed

[Jason1232]

16 minutes ago, Stardar1 said:

I'd recommend an i5 6500 with whatever motherboard and ram are cost effective. 

 

as for case, I'm a phanteks phanboy, I think they make phantastic cases with good phans. (im sorry), but that's really preference. 

Just looked at some phanteks cases and they look PHANomenal

[Antony Leung]

6 minutes ago, Jason1232 said:

Just looked at some phanteks cases and they look PHANomenal

Spoiler

 

I recommend this one because of the price since you are in a "tight" budget