As title says, I've been thinking about changing to the PC version of Fallout: New Vegas because I want to play, and create mods. Expecially with school starting soon. :disguise: Figure it would give me some practice after I get out from college, yada yada. Long story short, I was wondering, does anyone have any suggestions for a PC that is capable of running FNV? It doesn't have to be at high quality, though I would like this, I just want it to be able to run the game and handle some of the higher end mods out there, as well as whatever my imagination can think of. Though, I am not made of money, and even then I think it'll be a while before I can get a PC capable of what I want to acheive with this. Also: Would just like to say I have read the minimum specs on the official site, I've just never been good with finding out what can run this game. Case and point: Bought Crysis for a PC that was supposed to be able to handle it, turns out it could barely handle it even on the lowest setting. :rofl: So yes, I need help.

And on that note, I will have to upgrade because as is, I'm using a 2 year old computer with the following specs:

OS - WIndows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit
Processor - Intel Celeron CPU 900 @ 2.20GHz, ~2.2GHz
Memory - 2048MB RAM

and operating with the Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chip Family.

So... pretty sure I'd need to upgrade. Been thinking about a desktop, but I have no clue where to begin.

Any thoughts? Suggestions?

EDIT - Heading to Bed, will reply to any responses in the morning.

Whatever you do, make sure you get a good nvidia graphics card

There are a number of threads in the Skyrim forum about what to get to run that game and I'm sure it applies to FNV too. Before I got my ASUS G73JW, I just kept thinking graphics and memory. The specs are on Amazon and I think it runs great. Now I've seen specs with even more memory mentioned by posters. sigh. I think the games are still made so the majority of computers out there can run them but they push the envelope some too. It's hard to keep up with it all.

If your going to build a desktop get an amd processor, and an nvidia graphics card, ASUS makes very good motherboards, I also would recommend G.Skill for RAM, put that together with a case make sure it has a power supply or add a power supply, a hard drive, and a dvd drive and you can build a computer capable of playing most games released this year on all high settings for less then 500 dollars

Well my computer is a 64 bit with Windows 7 and Google Chrome. :3 I have like 450 GB of memory. I read that a computer having between 300 and 500 GB of memory would be good for gaming. I don't know what the RAM or whatever is though.

Oh, I mentioned the Google Chrome browser because Google Chrome is like, the best browser for speed.

EDIT: Oh, and it's a custom built computer so you may want to look into that.

^lol

my computer is black, although i've heard the red ones go faster?

Yes but 'Paint' Computers are the slowest"

I recently bought the parts for my new gaming computer after my video card fried,and i believe it will run FNV and most new games,as Skyrim, pretty well:

Intel Core i5 750 2.66ghz + Compatible intel motherboard
4Gigs of DDR3 ram 1333Mhz
Geforce GTS450
320gb Sata harddrive + 160gb Sata harddrive (used from my old computer)
Corsair 500w power supply

So there you have it,the parts are arriving next week so i haven't tested the rig yet but i can tell it will last about 2 years without feeling outdated,also,im not from the states so i can't tell you exactly how much you would have to pay for this config,but probably less than $1000.

If you want a gaming pc definetly go with a desktop. Laptops are not made for gaming and are more expensive anyways. Be sure to buy at least an i7 with a decent clockspeed ( around 2.5ghz) , 4 gb of ram , a gtx460 with 1 gb of vram ( the extra vram always help with higher resolution textures), and a 550w+ psu

I changed to PC for Fallout 3 back when I started seeing all these awesome mods on Nexus.

Bad decision since my computer is a piece of Junk, had to upgrade my Graphics card and it still isn't really good enough for Fallout. Hoping to get a proper gaming rig soon though.

I think you mean 450GB of hard disk space - RAM is memory, and you certainly don't have 450GB of that!
And although Chrome is fast, there are advantages to using, for example, Firefox (add-ins).

I build all my machines. The one I have now is my 5th computer.

If all you want is to play the Fallout games the new Fusion APUs from AMD are a very sweet spot.

http://techreport.com/articles.x/21099

Here is a useful parts list and prices. I'm using Newegg here.

CPU/GPU/APU
AMD A8-3850 Llano $140
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103942

Motherboard
ASUS F1A75-V PRO FM1 $130
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131765

RAM
Kingston HyperX 4GB $40
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104166

PSU
SeaSonic S12II 430B 430W $70
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151074

HD
Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB $90
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136533

Any old or new ATX case will do.

Total of $470 without case. You get a modern fast computer with Radeon 66xx video card built in to the CPU. Will play Fallout very well.
You can get a better card later and if it's a Radeon you can go Crossfire with the on chip 66xx.

Modern machine with USB 3 and SATA 3 6 GB/s. Perfect for an SSD.

My machine is quite a bit more beastly but was not at all cheap.

Mine runs just fine on 2 gigs of memory...

The machine you listed should run New Vegas just fine, however I would upgrade the video card when ever you get the chance.

>.<

Someone just HAD to take that seriously.

I'm running a Intel i7 950 @ 3 ghz , nvidia geforce GTX460, and 6 gig ram. Can run pretty much anything out there on max graphics... ^^

complete new player question, how do you install a graphics card? I share my computer with family, and they'd kill me if they saw me butcher my computer.

It's pretty much plug and play. Take off the side panel and pop it in where it looks like it'd fit, secure the I/O bracket with the screw that was already there in the case. If you already had a dedicated card in there just swap it out.

Wow, thats a lot of information to digest haha. Thank you all for your help. I think I'll have a much easier time with this now.

you need to first find out what kind of slot you have if you have AGP or PCI-Express you should be able to find something this would be the best agp card you'll find though http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161337 if you dont have either you wont be able to find a modern graphics card for a PCI slot. MAke sure everything is secure in place some modern cards require a direct connection to the power supply but i believe if they do most come with an adapter.