Like the title implies, i'm thinking about getting this for PC but I dont think my currect G-card will run it that well. Right now I have a Radeon 5670, and it's been doing fine for my gaming needs, but I want to be able to play Skyrim with the graphics set at an acceptable level.

right now my CPU runs at 2.8
I have almost 500 GB of free HDD space
12GB of ram
running on windows 7 64-bit

I meet the minimum requirements for skyrim, and then some, but not the recommended and I don't want it to be choppy or ugly. Any suggestions for an update would be great.

Any advice would be great...

I was running Skyrim OK with a 9800GT, then upgraded to a GTX 560 (2GB, not a ti). I was able to run it pretty well before on mostly medium/high settings, now I'm on mostly high and ultra with a uGridsToLoad of 7, and the lite version of Skyrim HD. This is with nVidia 3D vision though, which just about doubles the strain on your graphics card, so I'd imagine most people could get away with something a bit weaker. I could be wrong, but this game doesn't seem much more taxing than New Vegas.

My nVidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti runs this wonderfully. I have a 4x 3.2 CPU; 4g DDR3; Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. Can't remember what the card cost, but at most it was a little over $300 (was probably around a year ago).

Not only do I run the game with all settings maxed, but I also have the S.T.E.P. mod system running, bringing my game to 10.5 gigs (have some additional mods not included in S.T.E.P.), and it runs buttery-smooth, with no lag, ever, and no freezes our crashes.

Good luck.


Iullus Cornelius Smegmus Magnus Pantocrator

G card lol nice way to


Edit stupid phone I meant to say nice way to put it. It shoul be ok as skyrim is meant to be cp-unit reliant.

Wait until March or April when supposedly Kepler comes out.

What kind of CPU? Clockspeed tells us very little about how powerful it is...

This is the card I'm running. The EGVA nVidia GTX 560 2GB....I only have an AMD dual core running @2.49GHz and only 2Gb ram...
I'm able to run on high settings with at least 30 fps and higher everywhere & up to 60 fps in most wilderness areas. It drops by about 10 fps below that in Ultra.
Also, running Game Booster 3 program so that helps by temporarlily shutting down background system resources.
I'm happy with my GPU.
Some folks like ATI Radeon Cards, some like nVidia.
I upgraded from a nVidia 9600GT 512Mb card. I could run Skyrim in low settings, but it would choke after a while.

@ softnerd
cpu is intel core i7 - 2.8

What power supply unit do you have (brand and how many watts). Is it a computer you built yourself or did you buy it from a manufacturer. (If pre-built, what model is it)

prebuilt, alineware aurora. 525w power supply i think