Solid advice on PC graphics card needed

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helijohn wrote:

OllieNZ wrote: Just had a quick look at the specs for fallout 4, seems for acceptable performance you need to look for the minimum of an nvidia gtx750 ti hope you also have an i5 and 8gb of ddr3 ram.

That's interesting. i5 - is that pentium 5. I need to check but I think it is intel core 2 duo and 8gb ram

So how do you rate Nvidia GeForce GT610 card. 1GB HDMI / DVI / VGA - it's a good price?

Intel core i5, that is what I'd refer to as a media card. No good for gaming sorry.

OllieNZ wrote:
So how do you rate Nvidia GeForce GT610 card. 1GB HDMI / DVI / VGA - it's a good price?


Intel core i5, that is what I'd refer to as a media card. No good for gaming sorry.

Now I am a tad muddled.
So are you saying the 610 is no good?

Daniel30 wrote: Cheaper to buy an xbox

Yeah, got that too.

Ollie, should I just go with the 9800GT. I can get it for about $40 US.

helijohn wrote: Ollie, should I just go with the 9800GT. I can get it for about $40 US.

None of the GFX mentioned are any good for playing Fallout 4. You need to get something around GTX750 as minimum.

Here are the system reqs for the game.
www.pcgamer.com/fallout-4-system-requirements-released/ The minimum requirements are an absolute minimum.

So you need to dig up a bit more cash if you want to play that game.
And GFX in itself wont do it. You also need a decent CPU and RAM.

helijohn wrote: Ollie, should I just go with the 9800GT. I can get it for about $40 US.

The 610 is no good. It's to do with the weird way nvidia (and radion) number their gpu's. Nvidia have families of gpu's eg 9 series, 100 series, 200 series and so on I believe the current series is the 900's and the lower end of each family aren't really designed for hardcore gaming (yes fallout falls into this category) and even as time progresses the older top end gpu's are still superior for gaming compared to the newer low end ones.
Tbh I would look at a newer card than a 9800 it was long in the tooth when I bought mine(it's the oldest slowest part of my pc, like you down to budget constraints). Fallout 3 runs fine but it wouldn't handle skyrim.