I found this kind of funny. I am about to build my brand new intel gtx 780 rig. But I am a month out, so I booted skyrim to play on my old gaming pc. Specs are as follows.

Amd Phenom 955 Black edition (Quad core oc to 3.6ghz)

8 GB Corsair Vengeance dual channel ram. (Running 1600)

Asus m4a88-TDM-Evo Motherboard

GTX 460 1GB Graphics card.

Corsair vx 550w psu (System only pulls 400-460 on load)

Funny thing is... The game ran so bad. On medium (Didn't think it could do high honesty) Tons of tweaks brought me nothing.

So I turned it up to high for the lulz.. And to my amazement it now runs solid 62 fps without a single drop.

If it couldn't do medium.. Shouldn't turning it up make it worse? O.o

Thought I'd share haha

Well, well, I'm glad you wrote this because I noticed something comparable on my old computer (dual core AMD, AMD 4650 1gb, 4gb ram). It looks like demanding more from your hardware makes it actually better. Go figure...

Logically, it would make your game get less frames per seconds, but certain things with computers (and games) don't always make sense. That is an interesting experience, I have to agree.