How well will this run Skyrim? for price/preformance? any suggestions? My budget is $600. (rig also needs to be able to run D3 and SWTOR)

Video Card: EVGA 01G-P3-1460-KR GeForce GTX 560 (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Mother Board: ASRock H61M/U3S3 LGA 1155 Intel H61 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

Memory: CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Low Profile Desktop Memory Model CML8GX3M2A1600C9

Processor:AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor HDZ955FBGMBOX

Power Supply,Case: COOLER MASTER Storm Scout SGC-2000-KKA3-GP Black Steel / Plastic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case w/ Cooler Master RS700-PCAAE3-US 700W Power Supply

$189.99
$74.99
$48.99
$124.43
$119


$554

More than enough I should think, and fairly cheap too.

You've made a major error. The motherboard you've picked will not be compatible with the cpu. you have an Intel motherboard for an amd cpu. You need a motherboard like this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128519 or any other am3 socket.

gtx 560 not the Ti version svcks.

Get an amd 6870 for a bit more, which is just under the ti version in performance.


Change the mobo to an am3+ keep the CPU. That thing overclocks so easily it's awesome.



A must on the video card though, regular 560 is just not that good. --- amd 6870 or a 560 ti

Should do the job, I'm not too familiar with the graphics cards though.

Normally i go with Radeon ATI cards since i have always used them myself.

I bought myself a new PC for around ￡700, your processor looks good enough but i am not too familiar with the graphics cards of that type.

Yea I was gonna say that.
Also as someone ELSE already mentioned the GTX560 is not all that powerfull, the Ti is a good choice, Im not informed on AMD's GPU's.

560 ti handles tessellation better than the 6870, which is why its usually a better choice for dx11 games. Only reason I recommended one or the other, Skyrim has dx11 but no tessellation.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/GPU11/188



Is the 560 better than the 260 recommended? yes

Will it max out the game with 60 frames? no

560 ti / 6870 will do this, for just a BIT more money @ op

I agree with the Radeon 6870. It's fairly cheap, and is a powerhouse. I can run Battlefield in ULTRA at 40+ FPS and FNV, F3 and OB at 60+.

Please continue this http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1254956-unofficial-will-my-pc-run-skyrim-thread-53-w-hardware-guide/. Thanks.