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ok, so i been playing skyrim SE and fallout 4 on this pc for around 5 years, i play on medium cause well, i have very bad frame rate over high and since i know nothing of pc's and fear reading a two year long worth of info... i come here in hopes that i might get a idea or two on how to upgrade...

geforce gtx 760
windows 10 64bit
Processor: AMD Athlon X4 860K Quad Core Processor
Memory: 8192MB RAM

now as a thing... if your going to talk "nerd tek" konw that i might not even understand you, but so far what i have heard is that all i REALLY need is a new gfx card
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New video card. :) Yep. Nvidia 1070 or better please. (or equivalent.) When it comes to VRAM, some is good, more is better, and too much might be enough. :) Processor is getting a bit long in the tooth as well, and more video card than that will leave the processor as the bottleneck. Good news is, you can spend as much as you want on the vid card, and when you upgrade the rest of the machine, the vid card can be brought along. I just retired my AMD 965 Black system back in October. No choice in the matter, it died..... Running an i7 9700KF now, and holy smokes, what a performance difference...... (of course, it was a 1000 dollar upgrade....... ouch.)

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of course, it was a 1000 dollar upgrade....... ouch.

sadly i don't have that type of money, live on ssi and usally have like 200$ to myself for the whole month after rent and food and stuff... but i can save my money well and maybe just maybe...

 

should i also look into a new processor?

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Well, yours is getting a bit long in the tooth. :D At this point, I would do the vid card first, and then worry about the processor later, as that will be significantly more of an investment. (as you likely need a new motherboard, and ram as well. the new vid card will transfer over without issue.)

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