Best PC to run ENBs and high textures?

[catchby84]

Ive been using mods and enjoying this game for the better part of this decade and have broken the game and troubleshooted everything from CTDs, pink tounges, t poses, FPS of around 15-20 with the lightest of ENBs and thus know the difference between not having installed NVSE or NVAC and my PC just being an old fart. Ive used the same PC since this game first came out and its time for a change.

 

What PCs are yall using for those who run say Rudy's ENB with a considerate amount of mods?

This decision was incited by my return to the game to play the Frontier only to find it slow as hell and running at 15 FPS for no reason despite it working when I last played some months prior.

Edited January 22, 2021 by catchby84

[dubiousintent]

My personal "rule of thumb" for purchasing a new PC (over the last 4 decades) is to buy the most highly rated motherboard and video card of the previous model year, with at least twice the system RAM of anything I intend to run (16GB currently) and at least the minimum VRAM required of any game I intend to run, but 4 GB minimum and as much as I can afford (for growth). "You can not have too much RAM or too much disk space." Buying last year's best gives you the most "bang for the buck" as any new release games are going to be designed for those systems, and you avoid the "newest, bleeding edge" price penalty and unknown issues. I can figure on getting at least 5 years of use out of such a system. Normally I expect to pay between $2000-2500.

 

I do leaven that "rule of thumb" with some technical considerations, such as I went with AMD's Ryzen chip set this time because of the persistent architecture design vulnerabilities with the Intel chip's 'Meltdown/Spectre" and related issues.

 

ENB is a "post processor". That means it is going to apply shaders to images as rendered by the game just before they get displayed on your monitor. "Garbage in, garbage out". The game renders on the video card, so if that can't produce good images, no post processor is going to improve on that quality. Please see the wiki "Display resolution versus Image Size" article for related issues.

-Dubious-