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smurfy

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Tell me if you see something wrong with this setup(im trying to keep it in the 600-700$ range,case and everything ):

GIGABYTE GA-970A-D3 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128521

AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor HDZ965FBGMBOX
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103727

Western Digital Caviar Blue WD5000AAKX 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136769

CORSAIR Gaming Series GS800 800W ATX12V v2.3 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC High Performance Power Supply
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139025

EVGA 01G-P3-1556-KR GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Fermi) FPB 1GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130625

CORSAIR DOMINATOR GT 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 Desktop Memory Model CMT4GX3M2A1866C9
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145291

i picked the cheapest motherboard that would work with a 1866mz RAM
 
Same spec RAM for cheaper:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148559

Or get some 1600 RAM. I don't think the phenom II's memory controller goes to 1866. Here's some cheap, fast stuff:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820161474

Or you can get 8GB of 1600 RAM for about $40.

Don't need that much power. I'd get something like this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817256071

And with the savings from those, try to bump up the video card to a 6850 or 6870.
 
claptonman said:
Same spec RAM for cheaper:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148559

Or get some 1600 RAM. I don't think the phenom II's memory controller goes to 1866. Here's some cheap, fast stuff:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820161474

Or you can get 8GB of 1600 RAM for about $40.

Don't need that much power. I'd get something like this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817256071

And with the savings from those, try to bump up the video card to a 6850 or 6870.
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will 1600 ram or 1300 ram play arma 2 smoothely ?
 
pretty much it is the amount not the speed. 4GB of 1333 will out play 2GB of 2133. However you will not see a big difference in game between 4GB of 1333 and 4GB of 2133. Speed is not really all that important to games.
 
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