i think PC and Console will be equal. but i offer everybody buy on Their console and enjoy trophy or acheviement and play on High

Core 2 Duo - 1.GHZ
3G RAM
GTX 260 - 895MB

Oblivion runs about medium-high

Depends on the game
sometimes low settings on pc are base settings consoles

ect
ect

2x EVGA 580gtx 3gb
I7-970 @ 4.0ghz
12gb ddr3 @ 2113

I think i got this, honestly if your running

8800gtx 1gb
any quadcore
4+ gb's of ram

you should be fine and have a game that looks better than the console version.

do you have FO3 or NV that would be a better representation. But with those specs it may not cut it mainly due to the CPU its quite low and Skyrim will be a bit more CPU heavy then GPU

Like Salidin said, do you have FO3 or New Vegas? It is a better comparison than Oblivion. I am not saying it IS the same, it is just closer

Thank you, I worked very hard to be able to put this computer together... Cost me $1,200 total to build, was for sale at $1,800.

I bought it with the expectation to play Skyrim and more Skyrim. Oblivion changed my life, as simple as that.

Thanks again for the comments, I was afraid it wasn't going to be enough!!!!

Intel® core ™ i7 CPU 870 @ 2.93Gz
ATI Radeon HD 5570
6 Gb Ram


Anything else I should add?

Look at this guy :rolleyes:

You won't need two 570s. You're just fine. You and I both know (considering our rigs have nearly identical specs) that the single 570 maxes almost every game at 1920x1080 with very high settings and 4x-8x AA. I can run The Witcher 2 at 1920x1080 with every graphical setting enabled except for motion blur and ubersampling and get a solid 55fps.

what kind of power supply would i need for SLI?

I'm more inclined to say that the GTX 560 equivalent is the Radeon 6870.

The GTX 560 Ti and 1GB Radeon 6950 trade blows depending on game.




As everyone said, get a quad...even if it's the i5 2300 or 2400. The 2500K is the hot buy though and overclocks like a champ. The "K" indicates unlocked multiplier...non-K chips have limited overclocking potential. Still, the 2300 and 2400 CPUs are powerful in their own right.




Missing last digit for CPU frequency. Probably 1.8GHz Core 2 Duo. It'll probably run the game fine, but that's a bottleneck there. The GTX 260 should be maxing Oblivion, so I take that your CPU is holding it back. Can likely expect similar performance with this game...bottlenecked performance. With a better CPU, that would probably do well at high settings....the GTX 260 can still hold its own especially if that's a 216 SP version.





The Radeon 5570 is a weak spot...Very unbalanced PC considering the CPU, which is strong. Looking at mediumish.
channel

And 6GB of RAM? Tri-Channel? The Core i7 870 is a Lynnfield chip running on LGA 1156 motherboards, which support dual-channel. It's not that huge of a difference, but you disabled dual-channel if you do have 3 sticks of RAM there.




Depends on the cards you plan to SLI.

This guide is rather accurate in what you would need for modern cards:
http://www.overclock.net/power-supplies/1045231-phaedrus-quickndirty-psu-calculator.html

The wattage numbers are there, but you still need to know the difference between a quality PSU and a junk one. Those numbers are for quality built PSUs...Seasonic, Silverstone, Corsair, Antec (Earthwatt, Eco, HCG), and XFX are a few quality PSU providers.

Should I get a HD 6870 instead of a GTX560? It's cheaper on a website I'm getting it from...

Also for ￡9 more I can upgrade from a I-5 2500 to a I-5 2500k, is it worth it?

Those choices are really up to you. Choose the GPU based on the games you play:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/330?vs=290

That chart is with the 560 Ti, but the vanilla 560 is about 10% slower.

If you want to at least have the option to overclock the CPU well, then yes it's very much worth it for the K version.

I'm going to buy new PC, most likely before official system requirements will be know. Can you estimate how Skyrim will run on this setup? I'd like to play maxed.

AMD Phenom II X4 955 3.2 GHz, AM3
Radeon HD 6870 1GB
ASUS M5A78L
4GB DDR3 1333 Hz
Win7 64bit

Edit: If you have any suggestion what should I change to make sure, that Skyrim will run maxed, go ahead.

If that's the PC you're going to buy, it better be very adjusted in it's prize. It's nearly the same one that I have, and that I built 3 years ago (except the GPU, of course).

But yes, it'll max Skyrim.

Buying a laptop soon, do I have a chance at running Skyrim? (copying and pasting these specs as I'm a complete newbie)
I highly doubt I'll be able to run it, but hey.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M
DirectX 11, Shader 5.0, OpenGL 4.0
Intel Core i5 2410M(dual core) / 2.3 GHz(base clock speed, max 2.9 GHz with Turbo Boost)
1 GB DDR3 SDRAM

The computer itself is the ASUS X53SV-SX096V.

Yes, CPU and GPU prices are low enough. And you don't even want to know what PC I'm using right now

A http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Amiga_1000DP.jpg? Hey, I bet you can max Skyrim with that, too

Actually the 540M GT is a pretty solid notebook card and should get you solid medium settings, maybe a touch of high on the lower resolutions. It seems it's native resolution is 1366 x 768, so you will probably get medium with a few high settings possibly. Also your CPU is fine, so your set to go.

EDIT: although from a quick search it looks like it costs 5000 euros, but I could be wrong I couldn't really read the site lol. :tongue: Which is extremely overpriced unless I'm missing something.

That's pretty awesome to hear! Thanks for the response, I hope it holds up decently. What fps would you guesstimate I can play on with medium settings?

As for the price, it's 5500 Swedish Kronor, which is a little over 600 euros.

At all medium settings I'd say a good solid 30-45 FPS. Also Asus make some pretty good laptops and 600 euros isn't bad at all, that like $800 right?

It's $860, so I guess it's a fairly decent price. 30 FPS sounds good to me, thanks for the assistance. :tops:

1080P 60 FPS

Hmm, with under 75 days to go until Skyrim is released they should be releasing the system requirements soon I would hope. :user:

Here you go: :sadvaultboy:
Dell Inspiron 531
RAM 8.0GB 32-Bits
AMD Semptron™ Processor 3600+ 2.0 GHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430

Will I at least be able to play it? (Because you now... I could not max even Oblivion...)

I don't think the 6150SE could even run Oblivion, maybe barely but it certainly won't run Skyrim sorry.