Question Building a pc from scratch for arma 3 advice

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Jeffdyer89

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Hi I’m looking to get into the pc side of gaming, primarily for arma 3 and Star Wars the old republic. I don’t know the first thing about computers at all I’ve always played console. I want to run arma on 60 FPS on ultra settings, same with Star Wars. I’m looking to put together a shopping list of everything I will need. Ideally I would like to play the pc on my 4K tv but I’m not sure if I need to play on a monitor, and if I do need a monitor do I need speakers aswell or are they built in. I need a complete list including, a tower, cooling fans and power cables. im going to have someone build it for me. Ideally I don’t want to pay much more than 1000 great British pounds, but if it does cost more that’s ok aswell. Brand names would be helpful aswell. Thanks guys,
 
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Phaaze88

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As long as you have the necessary cables, it doesn't matter whether monitor or TV.
But your budget is too low for 4k 60 on ultra, and Arma 3 isn't a good game to base expected performance of the PC.
By it being a bad game, I mean that the game programmers were lazy, and the game doesn't make good use of available resources. Even high end PCs have issues with it. Same deal with a game like PUBG.
Witcher 3 would be a better game to do this with.
You'd need at LEAST RTX 2080 for 4k 60 ultra, and that's over half your budget gone already.

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor (£188.97 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI - X570-A PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard (£169.99 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory (£89.99 @ Corsair UK)
Storage: Samsung - 860 Evo 250 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£53.39 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Intel - 660p Series 512 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive (£56.72 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce RTX 2080 8 GB WINDFORCE Video Card (£599.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: NZXT - H500 ATX Mid Tower Case (£69.98 @ AWD-IT)
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Platinum 650 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (£85.47 @ Scan.co.uk)
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit
Keyboard: Corsair - K55 RGB Wired Gaming Keyboard (£40.32 @ Amazon UK)
Mouse: Corsair - M65 PRO RGB FPS (White) Wired Optical Mouse (£57.49 @ Scan.co.uk)
Total: £1412.31
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-07-09 16:57 BST+0100
This is just to give you an idea how much you actually need, it doesn't have to consist of those exact same parts.
 
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Jeffdyer89

Jeffdyer89

Jul 9, 2019
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Phaaze88 said:
As long as you have the necessary cables, it doesn't matter whether monitor or TV.
But your budget is too low for 4k 60 on ultra, and Arma 3 isn't a good game to base expected performance of the PC.
By it being a bad game, I mean that the game programmers were lazy, and the game doesn't make good use of available resources. Even high end PCs have issues with it. Same deal with a game like PUBG.
Witcher 3 would be a better game to do this with.
You'd need at LEAST RTX 2080 for 4k 60 ultra, and that's over half your budget gone already.

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor (£188.97 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI - X570-A PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard (£169.99 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory (£89.99 @ Corsair UK)
Storage: Samsung - 860 Evo 250 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£53.39 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Intel - 660p Series 512 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive (£56.72 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce RTX 2080 8 GB WINDFORCE Video Card (£599.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: NZXT - H500 ATX Mid Tower Case (£69.98 @ AWD-IT)
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Platinum 650 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (£85.47 @ Scan.co.uk)
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit
Keyboard: Corsair - K55 RGB Wired Gaming Keyboard (£40.32 @ Amazon UK)
Mouse: Corsair - M65 PRO RGB FPS (White) Wired Optical Mouse (£57.49 @ Scan.co.uk)
Total: £1412.31
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-07-09 16:57 BST+0100
This is just to give you an idea how much you actually need, it doesn't have to consist of those exact same parts.
Click to expand...
 
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Keep in mind that even playing on a 4k TV you have the option of reducing the resolution to a more playable 1080P. The bigger issue with playing on a TV is response time, frame rate, ghosting, and any other number of possible issues as compared and related to a true "gaming monitor".

You should readily be able to build a system capable of 1080/60 gaming with 1000#. I would take a look at some Ryzen 5 builds with something along the lines of a GTX 1080 or RTX 2060....should be a pretty good place to start for that.
 
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Jeffdyer89

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punkncat said:
Keep in mind that even playing on a 4k TV you have the option of reducing the resolution to a more playable 1080P. The bigger issue with playing on a TV is response time, frame rate, ghosting, and any other number of possible issues as compared and related to a true "gaming monitor".

You should readily be able to build a system capable of 1080/60 gaming with 1000#. I would take a look at some Ryzen 5 builds with something along the lines of a GTX 1080 or RTX 2060....should be a pretty good place to start for that.
Click to expand...
 
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