Any suggest a decent cost effective upgrade

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• Slapshot1188 Member LegendaryPosts: 17,724

  November 2015

  Not sure what your price range is but Tom's always has a list of what they consider the best vault video cards at various price points:
  http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107.html
  
  
  

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• Slapshot1188 Member LegendaryPosts: 17,724

  November 2015

  Another good item is their hierarchy chart.  Usually it's not recommended to replace with anything less than a 2 step jump from where you are today:
  
  http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html
  

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• makasouleater69 Member UncommonPosts: 1,096

  November 2015 edited November 2015

  The only thing you need to upgrade is your video card. Fallout 4 is a console game, so you wont need a high end graphics card. But if you have 320 the best that would max everything for u is a 970 gtx. I would just wait though, you obviously waited a long time as it is, if your gpu is a 570, wait for the next Nvidia series would be your best cost effective way. If you cant wait, then the most cost effective gpu is this. 
  
  http://www.ebay.com/itm/HIS-Radeon-HD-7950-IceQ-Boost-Clock-H795QC3G2M-3GB-GPU-in-Excellent-Condition-/331702061677?hash=item4d3afbca6d:g:fiIAAOSwYHxWIPMK
  
  You can overclock that, and get at least a 7970 out of it. Which will double your fps for around 100 bucks. 
  
  or if you have 80 more, this one would get alittle better fps than a 7970, and would be new. 
  
  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150678.
  
  If you have 320 the 390 is slightly better than a 970, but it depends on the game. The 970 is better for ARK, but the 390 would be better for skyim with 4k mods. 
• gotha Member UncommonPosts: 1,074

  November 2015

  Could i sneak the game by on low video setting?
• Quizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,531

  November 2015

  Depending on your budget, you could justify any of these:
  
  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202043
  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500362
  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121973
  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487079
  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150757
  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125803
  
  Increasing price corresponds to increasing performance there.  But price increases a lot faster than performance, and the fastest card there is only perhaps 50% or 60% faster than the slowest, in spite of costing nearly three times as much.
  
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  If you don't already have an SSD, I'd get one.  It won't fix the problems with running out of video memory, but it will make your computer much more responsive.  You can get 240 GB for $80 these days, so if you've got the money to spend hundreds on a new video card, you've got the money for an SSD.  If you've already got a nice SSD, then keep it and there's no need for another unless you want more capacity or the old one fails.
• Cleffy Member RarePosts: 6,414

  November 2015

  From the initial reviews, the game is very playable on older hardware. Yours should be find to play it on medium settings. This is because its the same engine they have been using for a long time with some tweaks.
• gotha Member UncommonPosts: 1,074

  November 2015 edited November 2015

  sorry this one edit
  
  http://www.amazon.co.jp/玄人志向-オーバークロック＆ショート基板モデル-GF-GTX970-E4GB-OC-SHORT/dp/B00VV408H4/ref=sr_1_6?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1447169874&sr=1-6&keywords=gtx970
  
  Is this one good?

  Post edited by gotha on November 2015
• Quizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,531

  November 2015

  It's usually not so much a problem of bad cards as one of bad prices.  Is there some reason why you need a Japanese site?  I could try to find you a reasonable deal there if that's where you have to buy.
• gotha Member UncommonPosts: 1,074

  November 2015

  Sorry living in Japan teaching English.
• Quizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,531

  November 2015

  gotha said:

  sorry this one edit
  
  http://www.amazon.co.jp/玄人志向-オーバークロック＆ショート基板モデル-GF-GTX970-E4GB-OC-SHORT/dp/B00VV408H4/ref=sr_1_6?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1447169874&sr=1-6&keywords=gtx970
  
  Is this one good?

  I don't see a clearly better deal on their site, so I'd say, have at it.  It will be enough of a performance boost to justify the upgrade.