FalloutIII2013 Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 I will be purchasing a new computer this year's Black Friday/Cyber Monday. I would like to know what build (or upgrade on my current tower) in order to play Fallout 3. I don't need a high end monster rig but I do want to maximize my Fallout 3/New Vegas experience. Someone told me to match the PS4/XBOX one specifications? I currently have the following system: ATX midtowerAbit AX8 Guru 939socket mobo (Max 4Gig Ram)AMD Athlon 64FX 3500+ 2.2GHZ Chip and OEM fan1.5Gig DDR2 RAM 2700 (two) and 3200 (one)ATI Radeon Nvidia GeForce 6800 @ 256mbOptical Drives x2 CD & DVD/RW450watt power supplyOS WIN XP SVC PK 3and Hard drive 500Gigold boxy VX900 Gateway color monitor that just won't die! :)peripherals etc... I would like to keep my tower if it saves me $$$ and possibly spend that on my Graphics card. A 32 Gig ram mobo too much? Don't care for blue ray but maybe get an external optical rather than internal for less power consumption. I like HDMI Hi-Res but not until my monitor dies. Too much crap to store:) Don't know if multi monitors, projector or 1 big flat TV is better. Maybe RAID...5or10 on SSD's but I can still use my current HD. Quieter or loud depending on what loud is? I can here my games/voices in my head :p just fine with what I have now and to me the sound of the tower humming is more like white noise anyway. I think my mobo&CPU will probably not work with 4 ram max? -I heard that a 4 core chip is more than enough for gaming-SSDs are quieter and use less energy but expensive (min 512gig recommended for Win 7 OS?)-I don't know if I need to Over Clock (over 4 GHZ)?-more fans, radiator, cooling liquids??? Heck wrap the tower in a towel and put it in my Coleman cooler with ice and beer...just kidding.-crossfire, hyperthreading...ugh!-definitely USB 3.0 with my 2.0 externals until those crap out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M48A5 Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Since you are asking about Fallout 3, you don't have to spend a lot of money to get top performance. Fallout 3 is an old game and does not work well with today's tech. You cannot use more than 2 cores of a multi-core CPU, you have to tweak the .exe to use more than 2GB of RAM, you will have problems with SLI or duel monitors. If I was going to upgrade your specs, I would get a faster CPU, probably around 3GBs, increase the power supply, add RAM to 4GB, and go for an nVidia GTS 450 or a GTX 460. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickerhk Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 I built a new PC recently with these parts. It's not top of the line but it's not low end either. I didn't go with a K processor because I'm not really interested in overclocking and didn't want to lose the VT functionality. Didn't go with an SSD yet because of the price/storage ratio didn't look good to me. The single Velociraptor drive is 20 times faster than my old RAID 5 system in a copy operation. The PC runs both Fallouts and Skyrim on ultra at 60FPS solid with no tweaks. Just default settings. Well, and the stutter removers - the damn games were compiled with optimizations turned off, after all :PASRock LGA1155 DDR3 SATA3 USB3.0 Quad CrossFireX and Quad SLI A GbE ATX Motherboard Z77 EXTREME6Intel Core i7-3770 Quad-Core Processor 3.4 GHz 4 Core LGA 1155 - BX80637I737702 of Kingston HyperX Blu 16GB Kit (2x8 GB Modules) 1600MHz 240-pin DDR3 Non-ECC CL10 Desktop Memory KHX1600C10D3B1K2/16GWD Velociraptor WD1000DHTZ 1TB 3.5" SATA Hard DriveEVGA GeForce GTX 660Ti+ 3072MB GDDR5 DVI-I, DVI-D, HDMI, DP, SLI Graphics CardCorsair AX850 Gold Power supplyThermaltake Soprano Mid tower caseDVDWin7 x64 proNote that for more than 16GB ram, you need Win 7 x64 professional version. I chose to skip windows 8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalloutIII2013 Posted October 19, 2013 Author Share Posted October 19, 2013 Awesome! Hopefully I can get a good deal. What did you pay for all that or if not no problem for I will price the list above. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangman4ever Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 Don't bother with those specs. They're outdated now nor are many of those parts good buys. Especially the Velociraptor drives. Now what's your total budget for this new gaming PC? Yes you're looking at a completely new PC including a new case and OS. Awesome! Hopefully I can get a good deal. What did you pay for all that or if not no problem for I will price the list above. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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