I currently play Skyrim on Xbox but am seriously considering going to PC.
I played WoW on my current PC for about a year and I am curious how Skyrim will work with these specs:
PC model- Asus CM1730
Processor- AMD Athlon II x2 220 2.80ghz
GPU- HD6570 AMDRadeon 1gb ddr3 DirectX 11
4 gigs ram
Windows 7 64bit

It played WoW decently.. i guess. Although Skyrim is graphic intensive i would think a single player rpg like Skyrim still isn't as demanding on a PC as an MMOrpg like WoW is.
If my specs would svck for Skyrim or if there is anymore info you need to give me an answer please dont be afraid to just tell me.. =]

-Thanks. I want to be sure before i go out and buy a PC copy.

depending on ur default screen resolution, that card and cpu can play on high(auto detect).
What i recommend you is, change shadows to low and then lower the reflections. Then get a performance enb.

Id check out http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1433825-unofficial-will-my-pc-run-skyrim-thread-62-w-hardware-guide/. You should be okay with mid-high setting, is my guess, depending on your monitor's resolution.

Edit: Also, I'd eventually get a quad core (AMD Phenom II X4 955 is about $80 on eBay) and *carefully overclock it as Skyrim is rather CPU intensive and recommended specs call for quad.

*with a watercooler, you should be able to get to 4.00GHz'ish, I'd imagine

Awesome, thanks. Medium to high settings is what i wanted to hear =]

One more thing, where do i go to get the DLC's, patches and perhaps some mods?

Well nvm, Im sure that will all come to me after i install the game.

Thanks again.

PS. just saw your edit JustinOther and i will certainly look into it.

Steam; Steam or Nexus or other, see relevant threads in Mods forum; Steam or Nexus or other, see relevant threads in Mods forum.

DLCs are available from Steam which will mandatorily be installed before Skyrim. Mods are available through the http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/browse/?appid=72850&browsesort=toprated as well as http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/, among others.

The same place you get the game from, Steam. The patches come automatically, the DLCs you purchase from them.

As for Mods, see this before you install one mod on your game (plus all the rest of the modding videos)

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL20E326325BADAE44

You will also want to look at the other videos where he adds mods to the game, so you can figure out how to make them work together.

Ahh, didnt even think to consider the mods forum... duh.

Thanks =]

Great quick responses, Ty everyone. I have set all links to favorite and I am in the process of getting the PC version.

I don't know anything about AMD processors but I think my computer is not too unlike yours, and maybe a little slower (Intel Core 2 Duo 2.7 ghz, GeForce 9800 GTX+ 1gb vram, 4 gigs RAM, Dell 3007WFP 30" LCD 2560 x 1600). My comp runs this game smoothly even at that resolution, in fact better than it runs Oblivion. I generally use about 50-60 mods. I have nearly every setting at max. I do not use any texture or mesh-enhancing mods though, and I have shadows turned off (they're off not for performance reasons but because I think shadows in this game look wincingly butt-ugly).

So if my experience is anything to go by I think you should be able to run Skyrim with some mods just fine.

Good to hear. Last night i was playing Skyrim on Xbox, dealing with the pile of dung that seems to have gotten bigger since the DLC's were realeased, when i realized that in the next room I have a perfectly capable gaming PC and if i was playing Skyrim on it i would have access to mods and maybe even some console commands that would remedy some of the issues I am now dealing with. Honestly, I dont know why i went Xbox in the first place.. I think i really was just burned out at the time on PC gaming after playing WoW for 8 years...

P.S. the pile of dung i am refering to is the bugs not Skyrim itself, I love Skyrim.

I have a T410 i5 with nvs3100m (laptop GPU) and SSD drive, i get 25fps after completely overhauling my ini,
i've tried ENBs and what not, i wrote everything in a page in nexus along with tips and copy of my ini file,
i guess you could use that if the specs are like mine
here:
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/31501
i also recommend huge improvement mods that worked for me and made the game look much better even with lowering many settings.