System specs you can use, tested and verified.

[GUARDIAN]

low spec 10-30fps
athlon x2 64 2.9-3.4ghz
8gb ddr2
any motherboard from 2005 forward
amd 6950, or nvidia gtx 560

mid spec 30-45fps
core 2 quad q6600 or q8600 with HT enabled
8gb ddr2, or ddr3
amd 7950, r9 270x, or gtx 650, gtx 750, gtx 780

high spec
amd phenom ii x4 965 or i5 2400k
8-16gb ddr3
gtx 960,1050,1060 or amd 480 to 580

ultra
i5 5960 to i7 8600
16-32gb ddr3
gtx 970,980,1070,1080
any sli or multi gpu setup

Having said all of this, and having tested it. this should cut down on the discussions getting bloated with "can my pc play this game" style posts.

Fallout 4 is not a CPU heavy game, its graphically heavy. So your cpu doesnt technically matter, but your graphics card does, and if you bottleneck your graphics card then you may experience actual issues. Pairing a gtx 1060 with a athlon x2 64, isnt advised.

EDIT: These are tested specs, If you disagree, good for you. But they are tested, so if i have ran Fallout 4 on these specs, and it worked, no amount of you disagreeing will matter unless you have evidence that i am wrong, in which case..... which i magically doubt youll have because anything ddr2, or lower than your incredibly high expectations of hardware, and lack to explore other options which are necessarily equal to your expectations of pc gaming, or your lack of understanding that there are some people in the world, in locations which do not have the ability to upgrade as easily as you do, are stuck with certain specs. Im just helping those people along.

[GUARDIAN]

If you are using intel hd 4300 to 6100 or any other onboard video card, no one can help you. also mobile video cards like 980m, are not recommended to play fallout 4. Laptops have terrible cooling and are meant for school work or business practices, they arent practical for gaming, and are the PC guys version of a portable gaming console.

[Gordon Freeman]

Originally posted by DharaVasus:

low spec 10-30fps
athlon x2 64 2.9-3.4ghz
8gb ddr2
any motherboard from 2005 forward
amd 6950, or nvidia gtx 560

mid spec 30-45fps
core 2 quad q6600 or q8600 with HT enabled
8gb ddr2, or ddr3
amd 7950, r9 270x, or gtx 650, gtx 750, gtx 780

high spec
amd phenom ii x4 965 or i5 2400k
8-16gb ddr3
gtx 960,1050,1060 or amd 480 to 580

ultra
i5 5960 to i7 8600
16-32gb ddr3
gtx 970,980,1070,1080
any sli or multi gpu setup

Having said all of this, and having tested it. this should cut down on the discussions getting bloated with "can my pc play this game" style posts.

Fallout 4 is not a CPU heavy game, its graphically heavy. So your cpu doesnt technically matter, but your graphics card does, and if you bottleneck your graphics card then you may experience actual issues. Pairing a gtx 1060 with a athlon x2 64, isnt advised.

Ya , but , can I run it ?

[bunny de fluff]

Originally posted by DharaVasus:

So your cpu doesnt technically matter,

This statement is so wrong I cannot even find words to explain how wrong it is.

[bLaCkShAd0w]

Thread is cancer.

[GUARDIAN]

I have 20+ years building and technical knowledge of pc's. Fallout 4 being built on the 64bit creation engine, is not a cpu intensive engine. so perhaps before attempting a failed troll, you actually know abit more than i do.

[GUARDIAN]

Originally posted by Gordon Freeman:

Originally posted by DharaVasus:

low spec 10-30fps
athlon x2 64 2.9-3.4ghz
8gb ddr2
any motherboard from 2005 forward
amd 6950, or nvidia gtx 560

mid spec 30-45fps
core 2 quad q6600 or q8600 with HT enabled
8gb ddr2, or ddr3
amd 7950, r9 270x, or gtx 650, gtx 750, gtx 780

high spec
amd phenom ii x4 965 or i5 2400k
8-16gb ddr3
gtx 960,1050,1060 or amd 480 to 580

ultra
i5 5960 to i7 8600
16-32gb ddr3
gtx 970,980,1070,1080
any sli or multi gpu setup

Having said all of this, and having tested it. this should cut down on the discussions getting bloated with "can my pc play this game" style posts.

Fallout 4 is not a CPU heavy game, its graphically heavy. So your cpu doesnt technically matter, but your graphics card does, and if you bottleneck your graphics card then you may experience actual issues. Pairing a gtx 1060 with a athlon x2 64, isnt advised.

Ya , but , can I run it ?

its pretty obvious from the specs that are listed, that you can run it.

[BrackObama2]

How "good" is Athlon X4 860K quad core ~3.80Ghz? I haven't seen people comparing it with anything, so I'm kinda confused about how good is it? It's old, I know that, I simply thought that the more Ghz and more cores means that the cpu itself is decent, but I'm not an IT guy and I have no clue about all this stuff.

[GUARDIAN]

Originally posted by cCheerSs:

How "good" is Athlon X4 860K quad core ~3.80Ghz? I haven't seen people comparing it with anything, so I'm kinda confused about how good is it? It's old, I know that, I simply thought that the more Ghz and more cores means that the cpu itself is decent, but I'm not an IT guy and I have no clue about all this stuff.

well the athlons were comparable to the intel core 2 cpus, given that specifc cpu, you are looking at low to medium graphical settings for playing fallout 4, but being as old as it is, itd probably take some time to load as the older hardware is abit slower than this previous ddr3 generation. the downsides though.... you may be looking to forcibly using the "ultra low graphics mod" to play the game, because the particals and decals are what make fallout 4 lag the most, so i would suggest a overclock, and a decent heatsink or liquid to sustain it.

[BrackObama2]

Damn I thought that this piece of crap was worth something, sadly new cpus are expensive as hell, so I will have to stick with this one. At the moment I'm playing with 150 mods active, ~150 plugins active and medium settings with shadows and motion blur at lowest settings. Before adding some mods I was playing on ultra 30-50 FPS, now at the settlements with lots of structures, items and settlers I'm having terrible drops, also I'm having some FPS drops at the city, somewhere in the center, where is most of the scyscrapers, lots of details, trash and all that stuff, but I'm at 30-55 FPS everywhere outside the Boston and outside the Sanctuary Hills, because as I mentioned before, I have lots of stuff over there, 70 settlers and all of the buildings renovated, all with the furniture, so probably that's why it's lagging for me over there.
I will have to check my thermo paste and cooling system then.
Any more suggestions? From the technical side I can't do anything besides checking thermo paste and cooling, but maybe there is some mods, programs, that wouldn't make Fallout 4 look like a minecraft, but would increase the performance?
Also I have no idea how to OC my cpu, I tried once, but it wasn't succesfull, I have AMD's app for overclocking, but I haven't noticed any effect after messing with it, by trying to learn how to use it from the google and youtube.

[GUARDIAN]

Originally posted by cCheerSs:

Damn I thought that this piece of crap was worth something, sadly new cpus are expensive as hell, so I will have to stick with this one. At the moment I'm playing with 150 mods active, ~150 plugins active and medium settings with shadows and motion blur at lowest settings. Before adding some mods I was playing on ultra 30-50 FPS, now at the settlements with lots of structures, items and settlers I'm having terrible drops, also I'm having some FPS drops at the city, somewhere in the center, where is most of the scyscrapers, lots of details, trash and all that stuff, but I'm at 30-55 FPS everywhere outside the Boston and outside the Sanctuary Hills, because as I mentioned before, I have lots of stuff over there, 70 settlers and all of the buildings renovated, all with the furniture, so probably that's why it's lagging for me over there.
I will have to check my thermo paste and cooling system then.
Any more suggestions? From the technical side I can't do anything besides checking thermo paste and cooling, but maybe there is some mods, programs, that wouldn't make Fallout 4 look like a minecraft, but would increase the performance?
Also I have no idea how to OC my cpu, I tried once, but it wasn't succesfull, I have AMD's app for overclocking, but I haven't noticed any effect after messing with it, by trying to learn how to use it from the google and youtube.

becareful with overclocking, try core stepping, rather than voltage OCing. 1 thing most people ignore is if you have the option to run more than 1 graphics card, you can dedicate that secondary card to phys x, which will improve the game quite abit and your experience aswell. amd afterburner is good, but i dont use it. i dont care too much for fan profiles, as a decent heatsink would server you better than a OC with standard heatsink. If its an option look for a Coolermaster Hyper 212 for am2/amd3 socket, it should fit. itd keep your temps low enough that fo4 wouldnt max your cpu out, and would possibly help with some of the issues you are having. I believe there use to be a mod to remove invisible walls, and another called the wasteland unification project which cleaned up alot of the clutter hidden around the world left by the devs who just went on a littering spree and let stuff fall through the map, also i would look into papyrus tweaks, as expanding the cell memory in fallout 4 can increase performance in game.

Basically what i boils down to, each cell in the game is limited to 500mb of memory, this is where having more ram helps.... using papyrus tweaks to increase cell memory to 1gb, and possibly using an ENBoost, would probably give you more FPS.

[ronr42]

OK, I can't stand it!

@EVERYONE;

This OP lost any credibility he Might have originally had when he posted "Fallout 4 is not a CPU heavy game".

*I really like the part where he says a Q6600 will run the game. Now that's funny.

[bunny de fluff]

op go search for this phrase "fallout 4 cpu benchmark", Google it please

[bunny de fluff]

https://www.gamersnexus.net/game-bench/2182-fallout-4-cpu-benchmark-huge-performance-difference

[bunny de fluff]

how much you know about computer, has almost nothing to do with what this game looks for in any given cpu. don't simply assume anyone as a troll

[GUARDIAN]

Originally posted by ronr42:

OK, I can't stand it!

@EVERYONE;

This OP lost any credibility he Might have originally had when he posted "Fallout 4 is not a CPU heavy game".

*I really like the part where he says a Q6600 will run the game. Now that's funny.

considering GTA5 will run on a q6600.... i didnt lose credibility.