In your bios, there is an option to have the ram "ganged" and "unganged". Most PCs default to unganged. What that means is each core has access to an equal amount of ram.
So if you have 4 cores, and 2 sticks of 4gb ram, each 2 cores will use 4gb each. This helps a lot with multitasking, but isn't very helpful in gaming.
I've switched mine to "ganged". This means all my cores have access to the entire amount of ram (8gb). Although no game needs that amount, it gives it space to use ram in the whole pot if you like, instead of splitting it.
Although maybe not a complete fix, this helped me a tonne in OB and GTA IV, and don't see why it won't help in skyrim
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