Phyrre56 Posted November 15, 2015 Share Posted November 15, 2015 I trust the members of this forum to answer this sort of question, so here goes. I have an older gaming PC. I built it almost 4 years ago. I'm currently rocking: i5-2500k overclocked to 4.5GhzRadeon HD 7850 2GB8GB RAM This setup laughed at Fallout 3, and did great with heavily modded Skyrim as well. Based on what I've read though, I think it will really struggle with Fallout 4. I understand that to enjoy a mostly Ultra-setting 1080p Fallout 4, I need a new video card. That much is obvious. But will this i5-2500k CPU seriously bottleneck a newer video card and potentially defeat the purpose? If I can just drop in a modern video card and go, I might do that. If I would need to replace the motherboard and CPU as well, then the upgrade would be getting pretty pricey. Thanks in advance for your thoughts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielCoffey Posted November 15, 2015 Share Posted November 15, 2015 It is a quad-core processor at 4.5Ghz - it will be more than fine. I would spend the budget on a GPU and SSD. Steam will allow you to split your games across multiple locations so you can have a smaller SSD dedicated to "my current game". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebulous112 Posted November 15, 2015 Share Posted November 15, 2015 Check out Tech's recent response in the Fallout 4 General and Mod Discussion Thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phyrre56 Posted November 16, 2015 Author Share Posted November 16, 2015 Thank you, I never would have guessed that the game requires more than 8 GB RAM beyond the OS. I'm so used to the previous generation of Bethesda games that seemed to go out of their way to NOT use RAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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