New PC For Uber Modded Fallout NV, wait for R9 300x?

legokangpalla

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Hi. I am enjoying my break which lasts till 28th of Feb.
This may sound very impulsive, but I've sold my 1.5 years old laptop with very good price 800$ for 1200$ laptop. The reason for sale was...it could not run Fallout New Vegas with ENB(Dynavision) and high resolution texture pack.

The problem is I heard the rumor of R9 300x series being released in a couple of months. I am building a quite high end gaming pc with x99 chipset, i7 5820, and DDR4 RAMS. Now I was about to waltz in and buy GTX 980 when I heard the rumor.

I understand that I am being very impulsive and requesting solution based on a very unreliable data. I just want to play my favorite game in the highest setting with mods possible over this short 1 month period. I am finishing my Uni this year and got a job offer right away. I'm afraid during my adjustment/learning period in my new job, I won't /shouldn't game all that much.

My budget is quite big, I have worked as a tutor over the break full time and with the laptop sold, I have earned around 4K, of which I am spending half just on a PC. I do not have a 4k monitor-and will not get one until the bandwidth supports 120Hz, but I do have a 120Hz 1080p monitor.

I am just a little bit afraid of resell value of GTX 980 plummeting after R9 300x gets announced.
 
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Fallout and all Bethesda games run better on Nvidia hardware in general, and Nvidia provides better DirectX 9 driver support, which applies to Fallout. Nvidia cards also have the nifty trick of being able to force HBAO+ Ambient Occlusion, which happens to work very well in Skyrim and probably Fallout.

Basically, for the Fallout series and Bethesda games in general, you're better off with an Nvidia card.
Fallout and all Bethesda games run better on Nvidia hardware in general, and Nvidia provides better DirectX 9 driver support, which applies to Fallout. Nvidia cards also have the nifty trick of being able to force HBAO+ Ambient Occlusion, which happens to work very well in Skyrim and probably Fallout.

Basically, for the Fallout series and Bethesda games in general, you're better off with an Nvidia card.
 
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