Worth upgrading RAM for Altis Life?

Hey all, so its my birthday in a couple days and I was debating whether it's worth upgrading my 2x4GB RAM cards to these. When playing on server 1 i get really bad fps which improves the lower the player count is. My fps also tanks when I get shot and upon monitoring my resource usage, RAM is at 85% when idle and 90%+ when my fps starts to drop (shooting, getting shot, etc). Sits at 60ish% when Arma isn't running. What are your thoughts? Should I prioritise upgrading anything else? (kinda small budget)

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Thank you!

Arma is CPU intensive, extremely unoptimized and well simply unfair. Yes upgrading your RAM would probably help slightly compare to what you have now but it will have no real effect to your FPS specifically in Arma. You’d need a far better CPU 3.5 GHz and above.

Saul Goodman said:

Arma is CPU intensive, extremely unoptimized and well simply unfair. Yes upgrading your RAM would probably help slightly compare to what you have now but it will have no real effect to your FPS specifically in Arma. You’d need a far better CPU 3.5 GHz and above.

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Thanks for the advice, only problem is im too scared to touch the cpu in case i fuck it up ill see what i can do though

Bob Wilkinson said:

Thanks for the advice, only problem is im too scared to touch the cpu in case i fuck it up ill see what i can do though

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Just make sure you have a static wristband on and that u don't force the CPU into the socket (don't forget to apply heat compound

I'll keep it in mind, thanks! @James Travers

dont see you needing anything of the up above, if you are looking for 1 upgrade, id say go get a decent ssd.

the different the ssd makes will be more then upgrading your ram.

killersky said:

dont see you needing anything of the up above, if you are looking for 1 upgrade, id say go get a decent ssd.

the different the ssd makes will be more then upgrading your ram.

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thanks, ill take this into consideration too

killersky said:

dont see you needing anything of the up above, if you are looking for 1 upgrade, id say go get a decent ssd.

the different the ssd makes will be more then upgrading your ram.

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Yes it will increase performance but running games that read/write on a SSD at that intensity will greatly reduce its life compared to just using it as a non-game drive for booting etc. I personally use a normal HDD for all my games but the biggest factor for Arma is your CPU. Have you thought about overclocking?

James S said:

Yes it will increase performance but running games that read/write on a SSD at that intensity will greatly reduce its life compared to just using it as a non-game drive for booting etc. I personally use a normal HDD for all my games but the biggest factor for Arma is your CPU. Have you thought about overclocking?

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storage will always be a bottleneck right? the life span you are talking about... you will be upgrading in 4 years anyways, get a good ol 128gb ssd for boot and arma 3 only

You wouldn't necessarily be upgrading it really depends what SSD you get. Most top end SSDs will last alot longer than 4-5 years varying on how you use it. Im just saying that running a game like arma on an SSD isn't the best option to improve performance unless you have spare cash to burn on a new one as often as you'd like

(Just forgot to mention earlier that you can run games on an SSD without any issues but Arma in specific is a bad example)