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[Feronix]

Okay so would this be able to run stuff like rust and gmod? Arma or dayz perhaps?

Firstly; Welcome to the forums dude. In the future, rather than double posting, please use the

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For your system/budget I would recommend a GPU like an HD 7770, HD 7790, R7 260x, GTX 650 Ti Boost, GTX 750 Ti or GTX 660. Don't go any lower than that as you'll basically be wasting money on something that is only marginally better than the integrated GPU, which is bad.

With you system, and one of the cards I just mentioned:

- Rust and Gmod will run fine. Maybe at low settings at 1080p with a smooth FPS. The Source Engine is pretty damn epic and I've seen a system with a dual core Pentium and the HD 7770 get 100FPS at medium settings (CS:GO), which would be similar to your specs. If you only have a 60Hz monitor, you can easily bump up the settings to high, especially when the monitor has a lower resolution than 1080p.

- As far as I have heard DayZ and Arma are pretty CPU intensive games, and your FPS won't be nearly as high as on the Source Engine. Crank it down to lowest settings at 1080p, or slightly higher at 720p and you might have yourself a playable experience on those games too. Don't expect wonders on the FPS though.

If we want to help you and recommend a video card, it would be helpful if we knew what kind of PSU was in the system that you purchased. Due to the low power draw, you should be able to get away with the GTX 750 Ti as it also doesn't need any additional connectors. It'd be helpful if you could take the side panel off and snap some pictures of the side of the PSU (where it has the sticker with information) and any loose connectors in the PC that aren't attached to anything.

If the PSU isn't all that great, or doesn't have sufficient connectors, you're either going to have to go with the 750 Ti, or you might need a PSU upgrade when you buy the new GPU as well.

 

[ander01se]

Used to have an old 2.6 GHz Core 2 Duo (until I gave it away a week ago) and I think you should be able to play all those games in 1920 x 1080 as long as you're fine with running them on lower settings.

GTX 750 Ti is a nice medium class budget card for that kind of system, regardless of the PSU.

 

[barnsley]

Why does everyone think it'll run arma sufficiently let ALONE dayZ?

Sorry but it'll only run it if you're not online and with very little ai calculation. Basically no roleplay servers nor any of the popular online modes. Arma and DayZ are waaay more cpu intensive then graphically intensive. Dayz SA is so poorly optimized to boot. The rest you will be fine though to be honest and Arma 3 single player should be OK.

-edit- plus 1 for the 750ti suggestion, its the safest bet as the psu should be able to run that without issue.

 

[Feronix]

Why does everyone think it'll run arma sufficiently let ALONE dayZ?

Sorry but it'll only run it if you're not online and with very little ai calculation. Basically no roleplay servers nor any of the popular online modes. Arma and DayZ are waaay more cpu intensive then graphically intensive. Dayz SA is so poorly optimized to boot. The rest you will be fine though to be honest and Arma 3 single player should be OK.

-edit- plus 1 for the 750ti suggestion, its the safest bet as the psu should be able to run that without issue.

Jackfrags did a video about building your own £300 pound Steambox/Gaming PC using a Pentium G850 and an HD7770 and he was able to play DayZ mod on lowest settings, but 1080p at 30-60 FPS.

I've never played Arma or DayZ myself so I have no clue if that sounds fair to you.


@OP:
I've just installed Steam and downloaded Left 4 Dead 2 and Counterstrike Source on my new laptop, which has a 1.8GHz dual core (although hyperthreaded) CPU with HD4000 graphics and both actually ran very smoothly on low-med settings for L4D2 and low settings on Counterstrike.

Granted the laptop only has a 1366x768 screen, but that just shows how well the Source engine is optimized. Your PC, in combination with any decent sort of GPU should play those games fine.

 

[barnsley]

Jackfrags did a video about building your own £300 pound Steambox/Gaming PC using a Pentium G850 and an HD7770 and he was able to play DayZ mod on lowest settings, but 1080p at 30-60 FPS.

I've never played Arma or DayZ myself so I have no clue if that sounds fair to you.

Arma 2 and DayZ standalone are very pooly optimized (point in hand my 8320 coupled with an 280x runs Dayz at below 20fps in certain areas). Both require incredibly strong cores. A 7770 coupled with an i5 would run the game alot faster with better graphical settings for example. I'd say a core 2 duo will have issues in most multiplayer scenarios. My old i3 550 was fine for the most part however any big servers would cause it to drop frames like a beeeeetch. Hence why I think a core 2 duo will really struggle.