@rorie This might be off topic a little bit, but related to upgrading.
What do you make the Fallout 4 System Requirements? I have a 7870, which is listed as the minimum requirement. A few people were raising eyebrows over that since the minimum NVIDIA card is significantly weaker than the 7870. People were saying to just hang tight and wait and see how it performs in early previews.
I'm a real novice when it when it comes to this stuff. Do you think I should be looking at upgrading my 7870? I'm not that greedy of a PC gamer (can't afford to be). I'd like to play at 60fps on at least High settings, but people were saying the upgrade I was looking at (R9 380) isn't much of an upgrade over my 7870. Unfortunately, I'm in Canada and the price of a 390 around here is around $450, which is pushing it for me. The 290 varies between $350 and $400, which might be easier to swallow for me, but is it enough of an upgrade?
Help me, Rorie! I'm drowning in options!
I wouldn't worry too much about upgrading unless you're dying to play something maxed out. My girlfriend has my old Nvidia 6700 from a few years back in her case and honestly, even MGSV looks pretty good on her system.
I don't know much about Radeons, unfortunately, but I usually find that googling "VIDEO CARD MODEL Review" and looking at the benchmarks to be a pretty decent indicator of how much of an improvement something will be. The 970 for me would be around a 15 fps improvement across the board over the 770, which would be worth the money for me, but I'm not as clear on the ATI side of things, unfortunately.
@rorie isn't windows 10 still a free upgrade? As in if you are on 8 you should be able to just install it?
This is some wonky 8.1 professional edition thing that apparently no longer supports the upgrade. It's fine, the OS is going to last me like eight years, so I'm OK to pay for it.
@hassun: Yeah, 16gig seems like a smart minimum at this point unless you're really chunked for cash. It's super cheap compared to the last time I built.
The Cooler Master 212 Evo is such a piece of shit to install. It's literally kept me from upgrading parts in my PC because I don't want to have to take it out and then put it back in. An SSD can wait until I'm ready for a whole new build.
@hypnotoadbrwowrowrow: Hmm, I don't really know much about iOS. You can find the feed directly on the following page and subscribe to it manually, perhaps?
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