Hello all,

I'm planning on building my very first own computer with the help of my friend! I was wondering if some of you could take a look at my specs and give me an opinion on how you'll think it'll run Skyrim. Thank you very much!


￡95.97 Motherboard: MSI P67A-GD53 (B3) P67 Socket 1155 8 Channel Audio ATX Motherboard

￡169.98 CPU: Intel Core i5 2500K 3.3GHz Socket 1155 6MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor

￡49.95 CPU cooler: Corsair Hydro Series H60 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler

￡159.97 GPU: Asus GTX 560Ti DirectCU II 1GB GDDR5 Dual DVI Mini HDMI PCI-E Graphics Card

￡97.92 PSU: XFX 850W Black Edition Modular PSU - 13.5cm Fan 80plus Silver Certified

￡23.00 RAM: G-Skill 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1600Mhz RipjawsX Memory Module CL9 (9-9-9-24) 1.5V

￡59.99 HDD: Seagate 500GB 3.5" Barracuda SATA-III 6Gb/s Hard Drive - 7200RPM 16MB Cache

￡64.98 ODD: Pioneer BDR-206DBK 12x BD-RW with DVD±RW DL & RAM SATA Optical Drive - OEM Black

￡70.91 System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium w/SP1 - Licence and media - 1 PC - OEM - DVD - 64-bit - English

￡84.46 Case: Coolermaster HAF 922

￡10.46 side fan: Coolermaster MegaFlow 200mm Transprent Red LED Silent Fan

TOTAL

￡887.59

￡104.99 OCZ 120GB Agility 3 SSD - AGT3-25SAT3-120G

￡932.59

The two totals are there because I haven't decided on whether to get the SSD hard drive or the normal kind. I'd like your opinions on that too please, do you think 120GB is enough space? I plan on installing the OS and obviously all of my games on there. I'm planning on getting a computer so I can run Skyrim and hopefully Far Cry 3 on the max ultra settings!

Again, thank you for reading.

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1350063-unofficial-will-my-pc-run-skyrim-thread-58-w-hardware-guide

Use that thread, please.

Thank you, that helped a lot; I should be good!

@ OP

Reduce SSD to 60GB and perhaps get a cheaper DVD Drive. I don't actually have the latter as I never used one and I've had my new computer for 6 months.


Also you don't need the water cooler for overclocking. This is sufficient http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cooler-Master-Hyper-212-Plus/dp/B002G1YPH0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1332234225&sr=8-2 and it is only ￡16.00. I have the Hyper 212 and I have overclocked my i5-2500k to 4.3ghz without touching voltages and it never goes above 60C.

With this saving upgrade your GPU to a 570 or 580. You need at least 1.5GB vram on your card to support Skyrim High Res Texture Pack as it uses between 1100-1300mb outside. If you only have 1GB with the 560ti it would cause a lot of stuttering and fps drops as well as you won't be future proofing yourself as well as you would with a 2GB card or 3GB. Also look into getting another 4GB ram with the saving from the cooler, cheaper dvd drive and SSD.

looks good... might wanna shop around a bit though, some of those prices are pretty top-end. For example, Aria have had the i5-2500k for ￡150 for the last couple of weeks... that ￡20 saving could help you towards a better gpu as @kazekage suggested 1GB is really not enough if you want to run the Hi Res pack.

xTx

That or another 4GB of RAM -- with the price of RAM where it is I'd definitely get at least 8GB. (since getting all of it now in a matched set will save headaches later when trying to add another 4GB and not being sure if they will all work together well !)

Get 8GB (2x4gb) RAM. A dual channel kit, I'd recommend Corsair Vengeane 1600 ram, it's great.

The rest is good man, CPU and GPU are fine. If also suggest a corsair psu, and unless you plan on crossfire/SLI, go with a 650 or 750 watt unit.

i have that same i5-2500k 3.3 OCd to 4.4 without voltage change great little processor

Make sure you have 5.1 speakers and not 2.1, as Skyrim is pretty much incompatible with most 2.1 speakers (and Bethesda doesn't seem to wanna fix it), meaning that sound quality is far, far from what it should be.