New computer

[King Leopold789]

If I buy this computer will I be able to play fallout 3 on its highest settings with 32 or + FPS? The PC I have right now cannot play it and I am playing fallout on my 360.

[syntroniks]

Most likely. I don't know about that graphics card though. Since you are getting blu-ray that must take up a chunk of the budget... along with windows.

 

Tomshardware.com benchmarks a bunch of graphics cards. I don't think they bench fo3, but you can see how it compares to other cards.

[Limbabnees]

Highest settings requires a Videocard with minimal 512 MB

[nosisab]

If I buy this computer will I be able to play fallout 3 on its highest settings with 32 or + FPS? The PC I have right now cannot play it and I am playing fallout on my 360.

The overall configuration is good, you must be aware, though, the video there is onboard and is the low end from the ATI series.

 

My advise is you seeking for a machine with the new concept of hybrid SLI or crossfire (if you want to go later with Nvidia or AMD). The meaning of this is even you later buy a higher End card, from the series 3000 or 4000 from AMD or 8000 9000 from Nvidia (or later, to both, of course) the computer will use the powerful card to run 3D applications (like games) and fall back to the low energy consuming onboard set when that power is not need anymore.

 

Note that you may have such more modern machine for about the same price you would pay for this one, and since the specifications page wasn't available when I tried it, I can't say even if you can upgrade well the video card.

 

Note those Mother boards I'm telling you comes with the 3250 video from ATI (AMD) or 8200 from Nvidia "AT LEAST" and they are already hypertransport 3 capable and have complete support to up to 4 cores CPUs. So I suggest you using better your money today.

 

Edit, PS: The direct anwer to your question is, NO, not without better video card, that one on the machine at the link isn't enough to most games of today, not even under low quality on some.

[nosisab]

Highest settings requires a Videocard with minimal 512 MB

The VRAM amount is meaningful, but not the only feature that must be looked when choosing a VCard. For example

the first digit on the model number defines the major series and is somewhat important, but is the second one that really says about the card's "noblesse". So x200 is almost aways the low end type, and x800 the "queen of the block in its major" ... think this like one ATI 3850 is more powerful than one ATI 4550... or the Nvidia 6800 is more powerful than the 8400... and you have the picture. Few cases falls out this pattern, like the series 7xxx from Nvidia had the 7900 as the single most powerful of it's time.

 

Another thing to be aware, and this one is most confusing is the suffix... being GT or GT something the full (whole) card and GS, by example, a somewhat crippled one (on Nvidia cards).

 

PS: The explanation could be more length but maybe one post isn't the better place to gain the whole picture. That first digit normally says about the changes in the architecture or miniaturization technology... and they may be big enough to cause a real leap.

 

For example, between the 6xxx and 7xxx Nvidia's series the change was in the miniaturization and so the lower consumption and increased clock was enough to put a fight between the 6800 and the 7600... but the changes between the series 7 and 8 was architectural. A new concept was created... and the GPU turned out to be a highly parallelized computation, with near hundreds of small processors. the same occurred with the 2 last series on ATI.