I've been playing fallout on consoles to this point. I'm in need of a new computer anyway, so I figure I might as well get one capable of running fallout 3. (maybe new vegas)... havent looked at the requirements for that though.
I looked at the requirements for fallout 3, but I know very little about computers, so much of it is greek to me. I'm looking at a computer with the following specifications:

Processor Type AMD Phenom II 960T Quad-Core
Processor Speed 3.0 GHz
Processor Cores 4
RAM8 GB (2 x 4 GB) PC3-10600 DDR3 SDRAM (Exp. To 16 GB)
Hard Drive Capacity1.5 TB
Hard Drive Speed (Revolutions Per Minut5400 RPM
Optical DriveSuper Multi DVD Burner
GraphicsATI Radeon HD 4200
Pre-loaded Operating SystemWindows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit Graphics
Dedicated Video Memory, No
Shared Video Memory, Yes - Up To 3067 MB
Sound Card AMD 785G

So the typical questions...
Is this sufficient?
Direct X compliant?
Anything else I need to know or consider?
Thanks.

Yes this will be more than sufficient to run any Fallout game ever released.

Probably the next one to be released to. It's fairly powerful.

Sweet. Thanks for the reply. I thought so, based on what i see, but its always better to ask those who know.