I'm going to play on console for a couple of weeks and let other people figure out the optimal pc specs. Once I gather enough data I'll build a whole new pc that'll hopefully run all that mods to come for a good while.

I've been playing on console now for a good few years, but after the FO4 trailer was released, I decided to get back to my PC gaming roots. The laptop I've just ordered has cost me the equivalent of almost $4,000, but it will be worth every penny!

17 days to go, and I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas morning!!!

I'm looking at a Galax GTX970 Exoc Black Edition 4096MB (dunno how much all that matters but heeeeeyyy) that I can just about afford and from what I've read is a pretty good card AND it's the cheapest I think I've been able to find in the entire country. It'd be a huge upgrade from my R7 260X but I'm not computer savvy and so I'm wondering stuff like will my 500 watt PU be enough? Will it fit in my box? I mean it should right? Will I be able to install it without exploding my PC? etc.

Should say in specs what kind of power supply you need.

tell me about it, im paying the same price for 250gb as i did for 120gb. Hopefully its a bright outlook for the future of SSD's

Yeah, its minimum is 500W. 145W for 'maximum graphics card power.' But I mean does minimum mean my PC will just randomly decide to fts and shut down if it's taxed? Or is mimimum the baseline for ensuring that won't happen and it just wouldn't be AS good as having, say a 750W PU?

I also have a 970 and it says a 500 watt minimum is required so you should be good -

I upgraded my power supply to a Corsair 600 watt modular before I bought my 970 -

But a 500 watt power supply should work just fine - tinker around with settings and if you start to get some stuttering or slow down try lowering your graphics from high to medium - you should be able to run most settings on high but like I said play around with the graphic setting - enjoy your 970

I will play on my old rig (i3770K, GTX670, 16GB DDR3, all OC) and hopefully reach high. If I can do that I will not buy anything until the new CPU/GPU stuff is on the market (Pascal/Zen).

I have to get a whole new system. Currently, I'm on 32-bit with a CPU and vid card that can do Skyrim, but have been unable to play anything new for the last 2 years. So, with help, I'm going to configure a custom system that ought to keep me in the high texture cotton for a while.

Thanks!

I bought a whole new rig. The old one was 4 and a half year old so it was time for an upgrade anyway. Almost 2000$ I have also just received a Asus VG248QE 144Hz monitor.

Agree with the others, you should be set. The 970 sips power compared to older Nvidia cards and the AMD cards. I still have my old 660 TI in my system with my 970 for folding and my 850 watt power supply doesn't complain at all.

I upgraded a few months ago and Fallout 4 was on my mind but I really did it for GTA V and Twitcher 3

Cleaned up my watercooling: swapped tubing for some older UV pink tubing I had, moved my radiators to an external rack I built and swapped in a stronger pump. Painted my case white too! Plus some fan changes etc... Just wasn't happy with how the PC looked and I knew it would distract me while playing so, a month well spent fixing that!

And I bought a 240gb SSD just for Fo4 & Skyrim. Fully modded it should be just enouh to fit those two. I also bought a new 29" ultra wide 2560x1080 display. That wasn't just for FO4 though as I accidentally broke my old 23" display Thinking of having a burial for it as I've never had as good a display. RIP Samsung SA700D....

Made sure my pc was ready for fallout 4 and also the newer alpha versions of star citizen.

Purchased new hardware all but the PSU and GFX card are new.

Motherboard: Asus pro gaming z170

CPU: i7 6700k Skylake

RAM: 16 GB DDR 4 RAM 2666 MHz might upgrade later on to 3000 MHz

GFX: EVGA GTX 770 Classified 4 GB version so not going to be a problem

PSU: 700 Watt Gold Corsair silent series

SSD: 500 GB

Total cost around 900 Euro.

Same as me. I currently have an R7 260X and am upgrading to a GTX 970 as well. Although I've a 500w PS and that's fine. On the site I'm getting mine from it says 500w minimum, I'm pretty sure. I just remember that I don't have to get a new PS.
I only built this PC last August, my old one died. Motherboard blew a capacitor. R.I.P I got a good 10 years out of that old PC though over time upgraded a lot of stuff inside. The only original part was the motherboard.
Love my new system, though. Just need a better exhaust fan, maybe an SSD, but later. I don't have the funds right now. The most important thing is the GPU upgrade. My R7 is a piece of crap. I think I got a dodgy one. One driver keeps crashing and not recovering without a forced shutdown.
Anyway, I'll be glad to get rid of it

Within the past two months I've upgraded both my CPU and GPU (see my sig). Not exclusively for Fallout 4 though, but it was a big motivator.

I was going to upgrade anway, fallout just hurried things along. manaeged to snatch a I7- 4790k with a 980 TI for a good price.

GPU is nice, i went from a 770 to a 980, i would of gotten a 980 ti if it was out yet.. not sure i'f i'm going from a 980 strix with factory and personal OC to a 980ti just now, prolly wait for the next big gaming card in my case as it would be a marginal improvement.

I wouldn't off gotten the 4930k though, its expensive and most games at stock speeds perform worse on it compared to the 4790k or 6700k, they're also easier to overclock to a higher core clock.

Bought a new card to run the game, but was having compatibility problems with it, so bought a new computer
Not for the game really, my current rig is 4 years old and I've been itching for a new one. So now I'll be running FO4 on a Dell xps 8900 with an i7 6700, 8 gigs of DDR4 memory and a 4 gb r7 370

According to the minimum requirements you need at least an i5 if I'm not mistaken

think he meant i7 3770K as there is no i3 770k or i3 3770k

Those two CPUs are incompatible with my mobo's socket-type. I got the best CPU that's out there for an X79 chipset/generation one 2011socket. I could've gone with an i7 4960K, but it's not really any better and twice-the-cost.

My bad, you are correct, it's an i7 3770K @4.2

i read over that, my bad.

could of gotten a high end 1150 socket mobo with a 4790k though and still would off turned out cheaper (for example)