Selfish request here....

Could people PM me their plans for a new rig?

I will hopefully be in a position to drop some decent cash on a new right by the time Skyrim comes out. I don't want to spend more than I have to, I'm a cheap bastard, but I'd very much like be able to get the most out of Skyrim.

I played Morrowind on my XBox and Oblivion on my 360, so I'm aching for some nice moddy goodness.

If it runs on a 360 is will run on my laptop... Unless the game is poorly optimized for PC and requires an amazing system, in which case I won't get it.

You need a "yes if I get the money" option

Played Oblivion on the 360. It was fine, but I became frustrated at the drop in frames when anything crazy was happening.

I'm hoping my new PC will run TES V. Perhaps I should buy Oblivion to test it out. ( PC users: What was your average FPS when playing Oblivion? )

do you think i would need to?


2 gigs of ram


nvidia 220

athlon ii x4 (620- 2.61ghz)

i think i may need some more ram, otherwise i am not sure to get a better graphics card or even get a better cpu (i think the cpu is fine, but i think my motherboard will let me go for a phenom) if its a dx11 game i may have to try to get some money together

my pc could only handle fallout nv on medium without stuttering constantly, but that engine is an unoptimised piece of crap- avp 2010 also had occasional stutters on high settings, but nothing to pis me of. bioshocks demo and newer source games work fine

New games are expensive enough as it is at 40-50 pounds a pop. I wont be transforming that into three figure didgets for the sake of a single game, ever.

My awesome ASUS gaming laptop can bring Crysis to it's knees and make it beg for mercy, so I'm good. :laugh:

I'm upgrading mine. For deus ex 3 I'd it's released before. Need 2 new video cards. Already got 12 gig ram and a 2.66 ghz i7

its too early to know what hardware to get, so much new stuff is coming out by the time the game is out hardware wise. just wait till october, or if you can wait a few weeks after release take advantage of black friday.. and get parts off newegg or tigerdirect.

at that time, youll be able to get a 3.0+Ghz quad core, 4-8Gb ddr3 1333+ ram, awesome graphics (whats high end now will be mid range or atleast a lot cheaper by then), an awesome solid state drive for a system drive and atleast 1Tb hdd for storage, plus a case/psu/etc for 700 or less, and it will be able to play absolutely anything

so hold on to your money and save up, with how things are going in the tech industry i can only imagine how awesome bulldozer and sandy bridge will perform, not to mention nvidia 600 series and ati 7000 series graphics

Black Friday, brilliant. Thank you.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/12/12/confirmed-the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-will-use-an-entirely-new-engine/
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/12/13/elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-to-be-built-on-new-engine/

sources are valid.
it will be a new engine. though it may be built with gamebryo as its base inspiration or a gamebryo 2.0 etc.
they sold gamebryo's assets last month before announcing skyrim earlier this month.
honestly research before you open your mouth. :read:
if you still have doubts then wait a week, we should know more by then.
todd howard already told us that this game is built on existing technology, and that it is ALREADY FINAL HARDWARE.
one thing that was not stated was weather it is built OFF gamebryo, because there are no specifics we can say that gamebryo is not quite out.

im guessing a new gamebryo, it would still be considered a different engine.
but dont automaticly draw a conclusion without doing a little reading :facepalm:

well im already tired of my rig barely being able to run oblvion and fonv so i already have reason to upgrade it. currently have a amd athalon 3800+, 4g ram, and ati radeon 3650 1g, windows 7 32 bit. when im done i will have amd athalon II X4, 4g ram, ati radeon 5600, windows 7 64 bit. will upgrade the psu, cpu, and mobo on income tax, the rest will upgrade over time but should be done by the time Skyrim is released.

I'll be heavily upgrading my current one for Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and as a consequence, TES V. My current rig is great, but I want to upgrade to a Direct X11 capable one. I'm a college student, and need to get a job soon, so I'm aiming to save up enough with that job for the necessary upgrades before TES V or Deus Ex: HR comes out.

I will be definitely upgrading, my current processor is a POS and is holding back my graphics card a ton. I might get a better cooling or something too if I have extra money.

I will be. My laptop is at the end of it's gaming days. It's nothing special 2.5 Core 2 duo/nvidia 8600gs. I can play every game up to GTA4 but can't play on max graphics so over the next months I'll be spending money to build a new system.

We don't know the requirements yet but for the sake of your wallet we can make some inferences with what to buy.

Windows 7 - New games are being optimised for it and xp is no longer supported. (Vista was always a mess)
Direct X 10 - Bethesda is unlikely to use tessellation in such an open world since they want a large purchase base.
I5 processor - Most games do not use more than 4gb ram so the triple channel support of an i7 is unnecessary.
RAM - 4gb, unless devs decide to replace polygons with voxels for no reason there isn't any reason to go above 4gb while 6gb is just future proofing.
GTX 260 - This will have a console port and isn't using the cryengine or the rage engine so going above a 260 is just for people who need anti-aliasing and distant shadows.
750 W psu - All of the above will run in under 750 so no need to waste money until you feel like SLI for the 260.
Alienware Case - Alienwares are horribly overpriced pieces of overheating crap but they make some cool case designs.
LED's - thousands of them, if your computer doesn't look like a christmas tree you're doing it wrong.

If that can barely run Oblivion, then how in blazes is my laptop from hell running it? I've got all of 512mb of ram on that thing. :blink:

Needless to say, I need a new computer. Said laptop is practically dead anyway. I'm only able to keep it going by some sort of bizarre Frankenstein science.

mostly my cpu and my power suply are holding me back. also i have my oblivion moded like crazy so that also bogs it down a lil

I saw a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smml32f5SqMfor DX 11 with tesselation... damn, it was pretty. I kid you not, the first thought through my mind was, "This would make Oblivion look amazing." yeah, so i hope they have support for it, kinda the way HDR Lighting was supported but not always default in Oblivion.

My current system is nearing its third birthday, and it was anly midrange to begin with. Don't get my worng, the 8800 GT was a great little card, but it can't handle the likes of Crysis with all the bells and whistles enabled.

I just started my job at Intel, so the hefty paychecks plus employee perks on Intel products (think: free processors) should allow me to make a high end system with a minimum of pain. besides, I have almost 11 months to save up for it.

What's out there for video cards these days? I've not really been following the market recently. What's the latest and greatest? What's next around the bend?

The Radeon 5xxx series was the most recent ATI series (now called AMD) until very recently when the 6xxx models started coming out. Nvidia came out with their GTX 400 and 500 series, the 500 series being ridiculously expensive. The GTX 400 series are currently much better Direct X11 capable cards than most Radeon 5xxx's (for the price), but as the 6xxx series starts to reveal itself AMD may wind up retaking the thrown. But we'll have to wait until Q1 2011, when the rest of the 6xxx cards come out, to see.

You should go to the website Tom's Hardware and check out their extensive benchmark charts, they're very helpful when it comes to deciding on a new card.

Maybe an upgrade but if it plays on xbox..... :goodjob:

Normally I would upgrade my PC for such a great release as Skyrim, but unfortuneately that won't be happening this time, I have a little girl now and also we are saving for our first house! So my PC with a E8500 (duel core @ 3.16) , GTX285 and 4 Gig of Ram will have to do for now, it still should be able to run Skyrim at my crappy monitors native resolution (1680X1050) so it should be fine! Plus I can always get it for the PS3 and play it in surround sound and in 52 inchs on my Sony Bravia I will probably get it for both !

Reading a 6.5 on the Windows Experience Index. Surprisingly it's my processor that holds me back from the next lowest at 7.2. I guess a Phenom II X2 doesn't cut it anymore. I have considered buying a quad/hex, but I don't really think the improvement is worth the money.

With the release so far off, I am waiting, like many here, to build until we get more details. My Radeon 4850's and Phenom X4 are easily holding down Beth's current generation of games. But if the next line of games go DX11, then that would make a worthwhile cause to upgrade. But it doesn't make sense to upgrade now when we will see many more lines of video cards and CPU's come out in the next 10 months.

:brokencomputer:

thanks mate!