Mister_Monster Posted September 2, 2016 Posted September 2, 2016 It is probably going to be Alienware. I was told earlier to wait for the new graphics cards, are they out yet? what I have: an older computer and i have to be careful with my mods. What I want: Desktop. I want to ENB the Hell out of Skyrim and waltz right into Fallout 4. I talked to a guy at Dell, and he was talking about THREE graphics card stacked on top of each other. I'm not sure I need that....but I don't want to worry about my downloads...I just want to plug and play. I am not a computer person at all. so...any suggestions for what I want to build? I have a budget of $3000 and please add a few basic things like how much RAM I will be needing with this build. thanks for any help.
cweez Posted September 2, 2016 Posted September 2, 2016 Fallout will require a much beefier computer than Skkrim; at this point most reasonably recent PCs can handle skyrim easily as it's over 5 years old now. As for a new PC, if you want the best value you should build it yourself. Honestly, it's surprisingly easy, almost all the parts only have one place they can go so there's little you can do to go wrong and you will save a couple of hundred dollars on a decent spec system, which can either be saved or put towards higher end parts. Of course, building it yourself means that you don't have the same guarantee. Individual parts will have their own warranties, but it will be up to you to figure out which part (if any) is dead. Part of the extra money you spend on a prebuilt system goes towards support. Finally, you don't need three graphics cards. Sure, you can buy systems with that, but it's never worth it. These days there's basically no reason to get more than 1 unless you're playing at ridiculous resolutions. A couple of years down the line you could get a second for a bargain price to extend the life of the system, but even then you're probably better selling the old card and upgrading to something new; multiple cards have terrible scaling (2 cards will not get you 2x the speed, more like 1.5x) Also, important questions. Do you need a monitor/keyboard/mouse/headset/speakers/microphone/OS? These are all extra costs that will need to be factored in to your budget.
blind dog Posted September 2, 2016 Posted September 2, 2016 Dual SLi is your limit under DirectX 11 or 12. The only current engine that supports alternate frame rendering on more than two cards anymore is the Frostbite engine. Even UnReal 4 nmo longer supports stacked frame rendering, so the most cards you would get use from is two. Even Nvidia no longer recommends more than two cards for anything other than HPC or Iray. fallout Skyrim with K ENB or Natural Lighting and Atmospherics or T.A.Z. is more frame intensive than Fallout 4 with either ENB or ReShade by quite a bit. Fallout is simply not very well optimized, and has many framerate issues dealing with shadows that Skyrim does not. Both games scale very well with SLI and Crossfire however, with SLI bringing 1.7x to Skyrim and Fallout bringing 1.6x with cards that have over 4gigs of memory. I imagine CrossFire would be similar.
ButchDiavolo Posted September 2, 2016 Posted September 2, 2016 I talked to a guy at Dell... No... just, no. Don't talk to guys (or girls) at Dell. Go to a REAL computer dealer. I used to work for Dell and 80% of their personel hasn't got a clue what they are talking about. So just... No.
Mister_Monster Posted September 3, 2016 Author Posted September 3, 2016 I talked to a guy at Dell... No... just, no. Don't talk to guys (or girls) at Dell. Go to a REAL computer dealer. I used to work for Dell and 80% of their personel hasn't got a clue what they are talking about. So just... No. OK. Thanks for that. All this information is good. Thanks guys. now I need to find a real computer store.
MadMansGun Posted September 3, 2016 Posted September 3, 2016 not sure what country your in, but i would recommend looking at NCIX.com, they make custom computers with off the shelf parts.
Gameplayer Posted September 3, 2016 Posted September 3, 2016 Get yourself one of those new GTX 1070 Cards....And a 52 inch 4K TV. If it were me I'd try looking at that EVGA SR-3 Motherboard....I've had great luck with the SR-2 it still kicks ass and way more than what the gaming companies and their vodo ratings say...My comps a beast. I've got mine in a roller cart case...With a tunneled air flow system this thing gets too some extremely high temps of 35 C.....Ya not kidding its like why even register that temp at all haah.
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