Recent content by E. Ray

Do you have an aftermarket CPU cooler appropriate for overclocking? There's no purpose in buying a K series Intel CPU if you don't overclock it; you're just wasting money otherwise.

This seems slightly excessive to secure against what is basically a militia of criminals. Then again, our long-time "friends", the Russians and Iranians, just happen to border Erzikistan in the NE and SE. I guess the militia won't be employing Hilux cavalry for too much longer.

Command staff has not ordered a rollback. You should be using the Eden update until otherwise notified.

The only gaming relevant difference between a Core i5 and a Core i7 is Hyperthreading. To see any benefit from Hyperthreading, you must have a multithreaded application. ArmA 3 is not multithreaded, it is purely dependent on raw single core CPU performance; the more MHz, the better. You will...

There's basically no difference between the i5-4690k and the i7-4790. There is a mild difference between the i5-4690k and the i7-6700, but certainly not worth the hundreds of dollars you'd spend on the new CPU, new motherboard, and DDR4 RAM. Unless you absolutely need a chipset feature that...

I'm slightly wary that BI has dropped all reference to DirectX 12, which was originally announced to be coming in the "Tanoa expansion", and is instead simply referring to a "graphics update" which involves some new shaders and texture work. Here's hoping DirectX 12 in ArmA 3 hasn't been...

Cannonlake is the die shrink of Skylake. It isn't due until 2017, as Intel released Broadwell and Skylake relatively close together.

I've said as much in many other threads. However, DX12 does allow the GPU to talk to all CPU cores simultaneously, so it does allow for a form of CPU multithreading. There should be some sort benefit, however limited, to implementing DX12. Given the amount of work involved in adding DX12...

DirectX 12 support is coming in the Tanoa expansion next year, so there's that.

I'll second the powerline adapter recommendation here. If you absolutely cannot drill holes to run cable, then powerline is the next best thing. Just make sure that you're plugging in to power outlets that are on the same circuit, and that you are plugging directly into the outlet, not a surge...

So, they're basically saying "Let us rule over you, or we'll shoot you." Yep, classic Soviets. Are we sure Pootie-Poot isn't involved with this one?

ArmA 3 is CPU limited, so graphics settings won't unduly influence performance. Try bringing your draw distance down to about 1000m in game--and this setting won't save for me for some reason, so you may have to change it each time you load in to a server. That will reduce the strain on the...

Try the command switch -malloc=system. Also, you're allocating a pretty low amount of RAM for ArmA with your maxMem=2048 switch. You technically meet ArmA 3's minimum requirements, but the minimum requirements didn't have 506th servers in mind. You may need to add more RAM on your system. I...

Yep, this. The price reductions would have been very nice. Get the same stuff for cheaper, or get a better part for the same price, why not? Definitely. Enjoy the new rig!

This is correct. While read/write cycles per memory block are still limited, the limits have increased significantly since the early days of SSD technology. Unless you are constantly engaged in read/write cycles for 24 hours a day over a period of years, you will never encounter the read/write...