[Laura]

What kind of PSU do you have? It might be worth getting both at once

I have a 480w

[ezra]

Should run high easy at that res. Possibly ultra.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously? I must underestimate my PC. (maybe because I put it together for so cheap )

[Ron]

A Phenom X6 does not make sense from my point of view. Rather get an X4 (955 or so), it should not only be cheaper, but also faster since it has higher clocks and nothing is going to use those additional cores anyway ...

[*Chloe*]

No, that wont help anything. Ram is dirt cheap though.

My computer can't handle more than 2GB. Sigh, oh well.

[Nice one]

My computer can't handle more than 2GB.

are you REALLY sure about that?

[Dean Brown]

My computer can't handle more than 2GB. Sigh, oh well.

Is it your MB? or are you not running Vista/7?

If it's your MB get a new PC. Go on Newegg and ask in the forums for a build, they will help you out. Give them a price point and some guidelines.

[ruCkii]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously? I must underestimate my PC. (maybe because I put it together for so cheap )

Yea, the 460 is a good card and the rest of your system is solid. Im going off the video card rankings on the front page and pure speculation though so take it for what its worth. Still i think you will get high at the least with that setup.

[Laura Wilson]

are you REALLY sure about that?

I can't remember where I saw this. Remind me how to check?
I think it was 2x 1GB
but now I'm not sure if it was 2x 2GB

[Angus Poole]

Is this good then AMD Phenom II X4 910e 2.6GHz an energy efficient one?

[matt white]

I am going to run in 1600x1200 mode.
My specs are:
GeForce GTX570 GV-N570OC-13I
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83 GHz
4 GB RAM
Windows 7 x64
The whole lot of free HDD space on my 1 TB RAID-0 drive composed of 2 enterprise-class 500 GB HDDs.

Do I qualify to run on Ultra specs?
My main concern is the CPU and pretty old mobo with socket 775 (DDR3 memory though).
As I understand Skyrim isn't a native 64-bit application, so 4 GB should be enough.
I really hope my Gigabyte GV-N570OC-13I will be doing fine. I can't afford to buy another one to set them in SLI mode right now. So far I only got some rare lags with The Witcher 2 with everything on max and ubersampling disabled.

[Katie Louise Ingram]

I am going to run in 1600x1200 mode.
My specs are:
GeForce GTX570 GV-N570OC-13I
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83 GHz
4 GB RAM
Windows 7 x64
The whole lot of free HDD space on my 1 TB RAID-0 drive composed of 2 enterprise-class 500 GB HDDs.

Do I qualify to run on Ultra specs?
My main concern is the CPU and pretty old mobo with socket 775 (DDR3 memory though).
As I understand Skyrim isn't a native 64-bit application, so 4 GB should be enough.
I really hope my Gigabyte GV-N570OC-13I will be doing fine. I can't afford to buy another one to set them in SLI mode right now. So far I only got some rare lags with The Witcher 2 with everything on max and ubersampling disabled.

The 570 will be more then fine for Skyrim. You should be able to max the game.

[Breautiful]

I am going to run in 1600x1200 mode.
My specs are:
GeForce GTX570 GV-N570OC-13I
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83 GHz
4 GB RAM
Windows 7 x64
The whole lot of free HDD space on my 1 TB RAID-0 drive composed of 2 enterprise-class 500 GB HDDs.

Do I qualify to run on Ultra specs?
My main concern is the CPU and pretty old mobo with socket 775 (DDR3 memory though).
As I understand Skyrim isn't a native 64-bit application, so 4 GB should be enough.
I really hope my Gigabyte GV-N570OC-13I will be doing fine. I can't afford to buy another one to set them in SLI mode right now. So far I only got some rare lags with The Witcher 2 with everything on max and ubersampling disabled.

i would imagine you'd be just fine on ultra

[Flesh Tunnel]

Praise the Divines! I almost killed my old PC when I played Oblivion. I was afraid Skyrim might have the same impact on this one, which is about 3 years old already (with some upgrades, of course). Thanks for looking at my specs.

[Rachel Hall]

Praise the Divines! I almost killed my old PC when I played Oblivion. I was afraid Skyrim might have the same impact on this one, which is about 3 years old already (with some upgrades, of course). Thanks for looking at my specs.

3 years old? remember, the xbox is 6 and that is the main platform they designed it for. and np.

[Cathrin Hummel]

Nvidia Quadro Y U NO IN THE LIST?
Anyway here we go:

Pentium D 2x3.4 Ghz
Nvidia Quadro FX 580
2GB DDR-3 (I can blow it up to 6 or 8 or 10 or whatever makes sense)
Win 7

I′m [censored]-low with my RAM because I had some broken and are now left with 2 gigs. Should I buy some more until friday?
And if I do will I have to reinstall Windows and all of my programs to get it working in 64 bit, or doesn′t Skyrim even notice the difference?
I don′t really know much about the processor, I always found it awesome how this rather old thing has 3.4 gigs per core (not even overclocked)
I′m about to get a new PC with in i5, but I′m afraid I can′t access it before friday, so I wanna max out this PC as far as possible to run skyrim as high as possible.
Maybe I′ll use my 24" monitor instead of my 21", in that case, I′ll be at 1920*1080 or else It will be 1600*1200.
I ran my fully modded Oblivion at the highest settings, at least I have hopes for Skyrim...

EDIT: Before I forget it, will it have an impact if I install Skyrim on my external 1.5 TB drive? I can imagine it would. In that case, I′d have to clean my C:\ a bit...

[Dylan Markese]

Nvidia Quadro Y U NO IN THE LIST?
Anyway here we go:

Pentium D 2x3.4 Ghz
Nvidia Quadro FX 580
2GB DDR-3 (I can blow it up to 6 or 8 or 10 or whatever makes sense)
Win 7

I′m [censored]-low with my RAM because I had some broken and are now left with 2 gigs. Should I buy some more until friday?
And if I do will I have to reinstall Windows and all of my programs to get it working in 64 bit, or doesn′t Skyrim even notice the difference?
I don′t really know much about the processor, I always found it awesome how this rather old thing has 3.4 gigs per core (not even overclocked)
I′m about to get a new PC with in i5, but I′m afraid I can′t access it before friday, so I wanna max out this PC as far as possible to run skyrim as high as possible.
Maybe I′ll use my 24" monitor instead of my 21", in that case, I′ll be at 1920*1080 or else It will be 1600*1200.
I ran my fully modded Oblivion at the highest settings, at least I have hopes for Skyrim...

EDIT: Before I forget it, will it have an impact if I install Skyrim on my external 1.5 TB drive? I can imagine it would. In that case, I′d have to clean my C:\ a bit...

Its not going to run great, that workstation card dosen't have a ton of power. Might be able to run it on medium at most. That processor will have issues as well. Also dont run it off your external drive, that will not help it.

[Dorian Cozens]

[quote name='dudy80' timestamp='1320767474' post='19101612']
Why post in this thread if your going to be stupid? Its for people who want to get a idea of what to expect performance wise on pc, not a place to gloat. Yes, people are happy about there systems but thats because people take pride in building them, nothing wrong with that. Theres not a thing wrong with getting the 360 version either, wish the pc vs console crap around here would stop.

Well, I was being sarcastic. I mean, I'm seeing people with better specs then mine asking if they can run on high. They probably built their computers custom and already know the answer to that questions. PC Gamers love posting their awesome specs, I was making fun of the situation. Some people have legitimate questions. Lighten up dude!

[Ice Fire]

Hi guys! I've been having a bit of an argument with my brother, who is insistent that he can play Skyrim using my old video card (Geforce 8600 GT, 256MB), but I'm not convinced. I know the official requirements mention a minimum of 512MB of VRAM, but when he checked on www.systemrequirementslab.com his card passed, apparently because he has just over 1GB VRAM to spare? (My own card, which is supposedly a 1GB card, also appears as 1.7GB). Does anyone have any idea where this extra memory is coming from, and if so, if it actually and fully counts towards the game's minimum requirements?

If it makes any difference, he's precisely on the minimum requirements for everything else...

[Stacyia]

Hi guys! I've been having a bit of an argument with my brother, who is insistent that he can play Skyrim using my old video card (Geforce 8600 GT, 256MB), but I'm not convinced. I know the official requirements mention a minimum of 512MB of VRAM, but when he checked on www.systemrequirementslab.com his card passed, apparently because he has just over 1GB VRAM to spare? (My own card, which is supposedly a 1GB card, also appears as 1.7GB). Does anyone have any idea where this extra memory is coming from, and if so, if it actually and fully counts towards the game's minimum requirements?

If it makes any difference, he's precisely on the minimum requirements for everything else...

the extra vram is not actually vram but shared system ram. many older cards utilized that sort of memory sharing since at the time the tech wasn't there for the vid card itself to have that much memory of it's own.

and if your bro can actually get the game to run it would be at fairly low settings and at a lower resolution.

[Jessica Stokes]

Hello, I would like to know if I can run Skyrim smoothly with this: (Note: The videocard is hypotethic at the moment)

Asus GeForce GTX 560 Ti DirectCU II TOP, 1GB GDDR5, 2xDVI/MiniHDMI, PCI-E (at the moment I have crappy Nvidia GeForce Gt 130, gtx 560 is replacement)
8GB RAM
AMD Phenom II x2 555 (Black Edition) (2 CPU's) -3.2 ghz
Motherboard: ASUS M4A785D-M PRO

Resolution: 1680 x 1050

[Etta Hargrave]

Its not going to run great, that workstation card dosen't have a ton of power. Might be able to run it on medium at most. That processor will have issues as well. Also dont run it off your external drive, that will not help it.

Why not? I got 1.2 GB of graphic card memory and the render engines should be good as well?

As for the processor, I migh overclock it a bit, I will play with open windows anyway to feeling like in the cold tundra of skyrim, so that should just do it.
I guess the weakest point is the RAM?
I′m already leaving 160$ in the store for skyrim, I′m willing to pay more. Just gimme some suggestions.

[Erika Ellsworth]

Hello, I would like to know if I can run Skyrim smoothly with this: (Note: The videocard is hypotethic at the moment)

Asus GeForce GTX 560 Ti DirectCU II TOP, 1GB GDDR5, 2xDVI/MiniHDMI, PCI-E (at the moment I have crappy Nvidia GeForce Gt 130, gtx 560 is replacement)
8GB RAM
AMD Phenom II x2 555 (Black Edition) (2 CPU's) -3.2 ghz
Motherboard: ASUS M4A785D-M PRO

It should be ok on medium settings considering you only have a dual core CPU, which would bottleneck your GPU quite a lot.

Also you havent set the resolution you intend to play on, so I guess that with that GPU and CPU you would get mediumish settings on 1920x1080.

[Milagros Osorio]

It should be ok on medium settings considering you only have a dual core CPU, which would bottleneck your GPU quite a lot.

Also you havent set the resolution you intend to play on, so I guess that with that GPU and CPU you would get mediumish settings on 1920x1080.

Really!? Does it bottleneck it so much? I intend to play with resolution 1680 x 1050

[carla]

Why not? I got 1.2 GB of graphic card memory and the render engines should be good as well?

As for the processor, I migh overclock it a bit, I will play with open windows anyway to feeling like in the cold tundra of skyrim, so that should just do it.
I guess the weakest point is the RAM?
I′m already leaving 160$ in the store for skyrim, I′m willing to pay more. Just gimme some suggestions.

That is the WORKSTATION card, that has more processing power but is weak on shader operations etc etc etc...

If you want proper but yet budget card, which will run the game on max settings go with Nvidia GeForce 560Ti or ATI Radeon 6870.

[jaideep singh]

Really!? Does it bottleneck it so much? I intend to play with resolution 1680 x 1050

Noone can tell you 100% sure because the game is not benchmarked yet on PC's, but from my experience I would say yes, that CPU would bottleneck that GPU card quite a lot.

That is why I said you would get mediumish settings, not because of GPU, but clearly because of CPU that just couldnt swallow(process) all that GPU power at the same time on higher graphical settings.