AFAIK, none of the HD chips from Intel can run any of the Bethesda games newer than Morrowind, without major efforts, resulting in really poor image quality and badly interrupted ainimation.

Like pedrewilson said to you in the other thread, you look pretty good I think.

You could probably just wait until you get the game and see how you do with what you got and go from there.

Looking at these:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cpu-gaming-performance,3007-5.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-performance-radeon-geforce,2997-7.html

There are some things you can upgrade to for sure but not many.. lol

I am also sure once some texture mods start coming out you will have a clearer picture of what you need to upgrade, but you could do it now for sure to if you wanted to do it.

There used to be an old saying, that Video Ram was the most you could do to upgrade a system to make it faster, after that system ram, and CPU after that, unless it is the culprit already which yours is not, maybe it is probably still true.. lol

I think you have a pretty good go at running TESV:Skyrim with what you got, or at least enough to try it first and see.

You should be able to max it depending on what state the game is released in. Skyrim shouldn't be at the top end the spectrum.

And like others have said, your comp could always be better!

Thanks a lot.

I probably underestimated my hardware, then. I will wait and see how I manage before upgrading.

Hi, i just saw an ad on The mars ll, it looks frikken amazing like wow. Just wanted to know if sum1 looked at it and how long would a card like that last ? lol

Does anyone know if an ATI FirePro V5700 or V5800 would be good enough to come close to max settings on Skytim?

Guys take my advice and don't buy a new pc or graphic card or anything(unless you have a rly old pc) until you try the game, ill say again if you were able to run The witcher 2 and Two worlds 2 and Dirt 3 on decent settings you will most definitely be able to run Skyrim at least on medium settings.

Only reason I posted that question is I will probably be replacing my current compy (Studio XPS 435MT) with a Dell Precision workstation (probably a T3500/T5500).

Yepper, I am right with you replacing my old Dell 8300, that has a Radeon HD 3650 1GB in it right now, Time To Upgrade http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1224422-the-community-tech-thread-no-104/page__view__findpost__p__18499180, everything... Lol

Like others have already said, in most cases, try the game before upgrading, specially if you have a discrete video card (AMD/ATI or Nvidia) that's less than 2 years old. While the mid to high range on these cards should run anything the current generation of multi-platform games can throw at them, keep in mind that Pete mentioned the PC version of Skyrim should look better than consoles. This likely means higher resolutions and possibly longer draw distances and better textures, which all translate to more load on the graphics card.

If you have doubts, check out Tom's Hardware graphics card and CPU lists. If you're on a laptop, Notebookcheck also has comprehensive GPU benchmarks for every card in the market, comparing them against virtually everything that's out there.

Finally, if you're not sure about your video card or RAM, but everything else seems to be fine, definitely wait. Buying and swapping out a video card, RAM or a faster hard drive can all be done the same day for most computers, and we're inching closer to black Friday sales - a little patience will go a long way.

EDIT: Here's a helpful link for you graphics card number crunchers, using the HD 6750M as an example: http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-6750M.43958.0.html

That is a pretty cool site, I never had a notebook myself, but I still like looking at all of that stuff and that site is loaded, I just found out about Tom's the other day in this Most Helpful Forum, thanks for posting that.

You'll likely run it high (maybe max it).


No need to upgrade. Only if you want to.

I know you guys said I can max it, but can I max it with max draw distances, 1920x1080 resolution, etc?

Intel i7 2600K (no OC)
8GB RAM
GTX 570 1.28GB VRAM

intel i3 3.2
4GB ddr3
ati 1g gpu
what you think

Holy crap how many threads are there going to be for this topic?

What GPU?

radeon hd 5750

I really think you should be able to do that, but hard to say for sure until it comes out.

But if you have doubts wait until it comes out and see and then bump your video card to a GTX 580 or 90, if you think you need it..

The one I am building is the same except you are one up on the CPU and I am one up on you on the video card.lol

I think if we both just stayed the same we should both be just fine though..

Well this is the Unofficial "Will My PC Run Skyrim" Discussion #20.

And this is the one that they should be posting in instead of making other threads, and the one I let folks know to post in when I see other threads.

But this one is #20, I don't know how many more there will be.

You will easily max it at 1080p, it's faster them my laptop in my signature and I expect to to max it easily also. Trust me you'll be fine.



I'd say high settings at moderate resolutions.

Those are pretty old by now (three years), and weren't high end for the professional work station market when they were new. I think that means it was roughly anologous to the normal Radeon HD 4670, except with drivers not so well suited to playing games.

It will also have specifications slewed toward building graphic images, rather than viewing them, so probably not even quite as efficient for gaming use as that HD 4670 still is. Medium settings wpould be the best you could hope for, and that would only be if the CPU was relatively decent.



How many times, in this string of threads, must this be repeated? The VRAM on the card is simply MEANINGLESS compared to the specifications that actually affect graphics performance, such as core speed, RAM speed, count of shader processors, and memory system bandwidth!

The Radeon HD 5750 was a very nice mid-class graphics card, saddled with the usual medium width memory system of 128 bits, so when running games, it will normally deal with 256 MBs of RAM. Occasionally, it will be using 512 MBs. For the most part, all of the RAM beyond that is "wasted" on cards with memory systems narrower than 256 bits of bandwidth.

Whether it gets high image settings will depend on how high the display is set for resolution. It is designed for medium resolution screens.

Check out the NP8130, you can pick one up for about $1100-$1200 and the base configuration comes with a 560M.

PCS MAELSTROM T900 BLACK GAMING CASE
AMD PHENOM II X4 965 (3.40GHz/8MB CACHE/AM3) - BLACK EDITION
ASUS? M5A87: AM3+ PLATFORM, DUAL DDR3,SATA 6.0GB/s, USB 3.0
4GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 2GB)
1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti - 2 DVI,HDMI,VGA - 3D Vision Ready
1TB SERIAL ATA 3-Gb/s HARD DRIVE WITH 16MB CACHE (7,200rpm)
CORSAIR 650W ENTHUSIAST SERIES? TX650 V2-80 PLUS? BRONZE
TITAN FENRIR EVO EXTREME HEATPIPE CPU COOLER

This is probably the build I am certainly going with. My budget was slashed even more now that my Ipod touch failed on me

this comes in at ￡654. What do you think is there anything in the price range (￡675) that I can change that would make it better?

This build looks good. You should be able to max it.

I almost went with that GPU, but I jumped up to the 570. I think it was worth it.

This is a two year old gaming laptop, so I'm worried how this might turn out.

Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 @ 2.26GHz, 2.27GHz
8 GB RAM DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS 1GB VRAM

I only wish that laptops were as easily upgrade-able as desktops