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Shawty that PC is fine...overkill for just Arma 3 but you should have no problems LOL

I just wet myself reading the specs.

What resolution is your monitor?

My specs are

I run Arma 3 at 2560×1440 because 4K is to much for my machine. I think the bottleneck today is the graphics card, so I'd probably get 2x 1080 instead of a better CPU. Not sure though if Arma 3 has a bottleneck in terms of FPS.

Though thinking about I'm not sure if Arma supports SLI..

And Arma makes only very little use of multiple CPU cores, so single core performance is what matters. However my 5 years old i5 does a decent job, except for some really script-heavy SP missions

Arma should support SLI. Anyway, you will be better off getting a single better card than two of the same. Preformancewise. So the money you spend on two 1080s could be instead spent on a better card than that.

Im pretty sure it supports Crossfire, at one point I had a Xfire setup, so I dont see why it wouldn't support SLI. I don't think two cards are necessary, your setup is already quite OP, you can always add one down the line if you choose.

Hi pappa fluggo made me a pc but im not made of money and am looking for cheaper alternatives that will not handicap me performance wise, im not planning on running crysis on ultra but would like to play "recent games" at decent frames w/o having to run them @ 800x600. Below is my current to buy list and i check marked what I alrdy have. Sorry for my guetto photo of the list  

https://imgur.com/a/qkPje

Also, whats the difference between msi and asus released graphics cards? E.g. the 1060 has both msi variants and asus variants

Also, whats the difference between msi and asus released graphics cards? E.g. the 1060 has both msi variants and asus variants

And EVGA variants (one of which I recently bought), and Gigabyte variants, and whoever-wants-a-piece-of-the-graphics-pie variants. I think the main differences are going to be whatever the distributor of the card can come up with. Be it fans, heat spreaders, LEDs, colors, software, support and whatnot. You can usually find the specifications by looking up the model online.

As for cheaper stuff, you could always dive into the wild land that is the second-hand market, though I wouldn't know where to look aside from eBay. Or gamble with cheaper component alternatives, while making sure they still do the job properly.

I'm not really up-to-date when it comes to hardware questions, but I'll throw in my 2 cents:

I think the main differences are going to be whatever the distributor of the card can come up with. Be it fans, heat spreaders, LEDs, colors, software, support and whatnot. You can usually find the specifications by looking up the model online.

Often there is more to it then just the looks. All the 1060's variants use the same GPU, but other parts of the cards differ. For example RAM size and/or clock, or even GPU clock itself. Its worth looking up some reviews/benchmarks to see which card offers most for the money. Furthermore, ASUS and MSI both usually offer a good quality, which unfortunately often comes with a larger price tag attached...

Speaking of prices: with a lower budget you might consider a cheaper graphics card. I'm pretty confident that there are decent options available for gaming below 400€. I got my Radeon R7 370 from HIS with 2GB for around 200€ (and that was last year). Certainly not high-end hardware, but it renders Tanoa with medium settings on 1680*1050 reliable with 25-30 FPS (unless there is heavy fog,..).