tomomi1922 Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 Not 100% related to FO4 technical support, but I am looking at building a new computer for gaming (for someone in the house). His computer is 5 years old. I am thinking of getting an ITX motherboard because it is all he is going to need: a video card + CPU + RAM + HDD. AMD Ryzen CPU has all the hypes. So I need recommendations to whether I should consider Ryzen 2nd gen CPU instead of going with an Intel CPU? I haven't touched AMD for many many years (10+) and I don't presume the new Ryzen is anything like old AMD 10 years ago.Any drawback of Ryzen CPU in comparison to Intel? I heard the newest chipset is X470 for motherboard. Any big feature should I be concerned of beside the usual, USB 3.1, SATA3, etc... Onboard video card is heard to be better than Intel graphic, but nothing close to a dedicated card. He is reusing his GTX 970, so that is plenty. Should I just ignore the onboard card, or there is some nifty thing I can do to make it better? The aim, of course, is to play current games, including modded FO4 with ENB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jones177 Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 Hi For this game vanilla, an x version of a Ryzen 5 will do. I only recommend x versions because this game dose not like overclocks on some hardware configurations.A GTX 970 is fine as well on a vanilla game. For ENB it is very weak. Mine failed with ENB on Skyrim LE. I replaced it with a GTX 980 after about two months. Fallout 4, modded is the #1 killer of hardware of any game I have played. When the game came out I played it on a i7 2600k that has about the same IPC(instructions per cycle)as R 1600. The game slowly became unplayable as I added content. On my i7 6700k computer my game still ran fine. The i7 6700k as about the same IPC as the R 7 2700x. I now use a i7 8700k because my game is no longer smooth on a i7 6700k.The extra cores on the Ryzen won't help since the game won't utilize them. It did not take long for my game to become unplayable on a hard drive. I can only recommend the game on a SSD if you want to mod it. My recommended setup for 1080 resolution is: Ryzen 5 2600xGTX 1060 6gb (for ENB)1tb sata SSD. Even though I am an Intel user I can not recommend anything below a i7 8700k. Go Ryzen. Later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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