[Laura]

Just thinking here, wouldnt you be loosing a bit of performance by using such an old card for physx? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbww3dhzK0M
*I have never used Physx, so I'm just wondering.

He won't get any benefit whatsoever, Skyrim uses Havok.

Really, Enossirq, just get rid of that card. PhysX was nothing more than a failed gimmick, no one uses it, and you're wasting a PCI-E X16 slot with it there. If anything, take it out to conserve power consumption and improve the life of your PSU.

Anyways, these are my current specs:

MoBo: MSI P67A-GD65 (B3)
>Intel P67 Northbridge
>SLI Ready
CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.3GHz
>Quad Core
Memory: 8Gb DDR3 @ 1333MHz (2X 4Gb)
>Dual Channel
GPU: nVidia GeForce 8800GT
>512Mb GDDR3 VRAM
>2 Way SLI
>DirectX 10
PSU: 700Watt
Audio: Creative SB X-Fi Titanium
>With ALchemy
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium
>64bit

It is highly likely that my GPUs will be exchanged for a single GTX 460 by the time Skyrim comes out, too, so I should have more VRAM and DX 11 support available to me by then.

[neil slattery]

Fairly creaky old piece of kit, here. It won't be able to run Skyrim - it struggles running Morrowind (albeit MGSO-modified Morrowind) at 1680x1050 (no mip-mapping, no distant land) - I'm lucky to get 20fps most of the time. Oblivion runs at about 25-30fps at 1024x768, mostly high settings (no bloom, no HDR, no specular lighting). That said, it's more than adequate for my primary use (Linux; Windows is only a gaming OS, and even that I'm looking to phase out via stuff like WINE, OpenMW etc).

• AMD Athlon II X64 2.4GHz
  
• 4GB DDR2 RAM
  
• Windows XP SP3 (32-bit)
  
• Nvidia 7300GT

Would upgrading the graphics card be sufficient to (probably) get about Oblivion-levels of performance out of Skyrim, or would I (probably) need to upgrade more (and that's assuming it still will support XP - if it's going to be supporting DX11 that's unlikely).

[Vera Maslar]

I'm not sure if I can run it but I'll post my specs as well as I know them.

I'm running Windows Vista 32, my computer is a Gateway and about five years old now.

My GPU is an Nvidia 9600GT with 1G of video ram.

My CPU is an 3.0GHZ AMD Athlon 64x2 6000+ Windsor, it's Dual Core.

I have 3 gigs of ram.

My monitor runs at 1360 x 768 Widescreen.

Storage space isn't an issue.

I haven't had an issue with any game I've ever played in it, including newer ones like Fallout NV, Dead Rising 2, and Portal 2, I can run them all on max,
or near max with little frame-rate dip.

Let me know what you think, thanks!

Can anyone take a look and give me a hand? :mellow:

[Gracie Dugdale]

Really, Enossirq, just get rid of that card. PhysX was nothing more than a failed gimmick, no one uses it,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhysX#Use Notice how two of the most graphically demanding games ever made (Metro 2033 and Cryostasis, which are both very good games on their own rights) use it. And quite a lot of other great games use it as well.

If you have the spare card laying around, theres no reason not to use it for a PhysX card. Buying a card for that purpose, however, is not advisable at this point.

[T. tacks Rims]

I am finalizing my specs for my first game PC build. All the components come to ￡540 I will have ￡60 spare to get a better graphics card or I can change upgrade to a crossfire system after a couple months.
Here are the specs:
CPU-Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz
Graphics Card-Card-XFX ATI Radeon HD 6870 1024MB
Motherboard-ASUS P8H67
Ram-4GB Mushkin Blackline
Power Supply-600W Corsair Builder Series 600CX V2
Hard drive-500GB Western Digital Caviar Blue
Computer Case-Zalman Z9 Plus

[phil walsh]

I am finalizing my specs for my first game PC build. All the components come to ￡540 I will have ￡60 spare to get a better graphics card or I can change upgrade to a crossfire system after a couple months.
Here are the specs:
CPU-Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz
Graphics Card-Card-XFX ATI Radeon HD 6870 1024MB
Motherboard-ASUS P8H67
Ram-4GB Mushkin Blackline
Power Supply-600W Corsair Builder Series 600CX V2
Hard drive-500GB Western Digital Caviar Blue
Computer Case-Zalman Z9 Plus

Get some more RAM, at least 6Gb. This way you can take full advantage of running x86 apps (which Skyrim will be) as Large Address Aware (which allows for them to make use of all 4Gb of RAM that an x86 app can use).

So long as you are running an x64 OS, of course, and with that build, you have no reason not to.

[Grace Francis]

Am I just paranoid?

@DCDeacon what specs will Skyrim be best at on a computer? I'm buying a new laptop and want to make sure I get good a enough one for Skyrim

@robertwery Don't have PC specs we care share. As always, the more powerful, the better, when it comes to getting a rig.

I know I am probably just a stupid noob and reading this the wrong way but still...

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