forgot to mention my budget is about $1300

I am going to upgrade my home pc to run skyrim fine. I was just wondering if there are any specific pre-built laptops that fit what I am looking for.

I ask because I have bought a laptop before looking at specs, and I apparently do not know anything about graphics cards. I thought I was getting a good laptop but it wouldn't even run Team fortress 2 >.<

I don't really know how to tell a good graphics card, I was going by the memory size but someone said speed is more important...

$1300 should be more than enough

GPU speed is more important than mem size indeed...

I was looking at this one earlier... but all it says is the video cards memory (2gb) cannot tell if it will beast mode skyrim or if I am going to have another tf2 situation with this one.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/HP+-+Pavilion+Laptop+/+Intel%26%23174%3B+Core%26%23153%3B+i7+Processor+/+15.6%22+Display+/+8GB+Memory+/+750GB+Hard+Drive+-+Steel+Gray/2821764.p?id=1218354581396&skuId=2821764

huh, reading reviews and people are saying it has 2 graphics cards... one for normal apps and one for gaming?

Not yet, http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-performance-radeon-geforce,2997-7.html, but they are working on it for sure.

@ Chronicler of Legends: that's what I call a laptop!

but, I also found http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-6770M.43955.0.html review concerning the 6770M chip compared to the 5870M.

The 6770M should be as fast as my HD 5670(*)

(*) Calculated guess

sweet! now to figure out the next mystery... I have not ordered a laptop before... it seems to have the order button grayed out and says out of stock?

That′s simply ridiculous, skyrim won′t stand a chance against a 570 gtx and a 2600k. You will max it easily, it′s not even dx11 for all we know.

Sorry mate, your question is off-topic and thus it can't be answered by me (but I wish you good luck with the laptop you will buy and I do hope it will run Skyrim just fine :happy: )

Well thank you guys so much! good luck to all the others!

Since all four PCs are all on the LAN, all automatically have some protection behind the router, but I go ahead and use low-impact type AV software anyway. When I game play, I disconnect the game boxes from the LAN and reboot as Clean as possible, so without the AV then. The fan on my CPU cooler for my favorite elderly PC here just quit, and it was a TMD type, so no easy swap for it (AMD XP 3000, Radeon X800 XL video, 2 GB RAM, Windows2000, in a really classy all-aluminum Kingwin case).

Don't forget to Defragment your HDD on a regularly basis: it will speed up Skyrims load times B)

Thanks for reminding me!

I've got to get into the habit...

i dont know if my laptop would run it or not ill prob have to get it for the 360 but im going to give umy specs
intel dual core i5 processor 2.3 ghz up to 2.9ghz with turbo boost
4gb ram
intel hd 3000 graphics card
lol

I forgot about Intel GPU's :laugh:

From what I have seen, they arn't that good are they?

But anyway, you were looking pretty decent until I saw the GPU, unless it is a different GPU I am mistaking

lol yea the intel hd 3000 im pretty sure is the highest one that intel puts out but dont hold me to it, i downloaded the cod4 demo and was able to play it on high settings prob dont mean much though

I dunno you could get away with low-med.

I've got an ATI 5870 and i7 720 with 6gb of RAM, that should be enough, right?

Yes.

It should max with a 580 GTX and a 2500K also.

haha He's just playing with you man, dont worry, with those specs you with have absolutely no trouble playing at max settings.

My specs are

gtx 470
amd phenom 2.3 ghz triple core,
and 4g of ram

I really want to upgrade my cpu so it stops bottlenecking my gpu, but because my mobo is so old and my ram is ddr2 if I want to upgrade to say a quad core phenom I have to replace my mobo, ram and then the hopefully they haven't completely screwed us with the port and the game will make use of gpu's

I Bought a HD 5770 in 2009, when it was the best card I could buy for the money. It hit the "sweet spot" so to speak. Many review sites recommended the HD 5770 for exact that reason. That's why so many people own one.

I recommend NOT to upgrade from the HD 5770 BEFORE Skyrim comes out.

It will run just fine. If you see you can't max out the game with a HD 5770, and you really want to, you can buy a new GPU. By the time Skyrim comes out, you should search for the new sweetspot on which you can max the game. In November you will get a better card for your money than now(almost certainly).

Upgrading can be a matter of 36 Hrs and you're done. So do yourself and your wallet a favor and WAIT if you own a HD 5770. My 2 cents...

I wanted to know if my computer could run Skyrim. I'm not good with tech, and I pre-ordered Skyrim already. Here's my specs, thanks in advance.

Processor: Intel® Pentium® Dual CPU E2200 @ 2.20GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.2GHz
Memory: 4094MB RAM DDR2 Memory
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 ([Graphics Clock (MHz) 738 MHz] [Processor Clock (MHz) 1836 MHz] [Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec) 47.2] [Memory Clock (MHz) 1100])

I currently possess the following rig:

Intel Core i5 750@2.67GHz
4 GB RAM
Ati Radeon HD 5850 Toxic
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit

I believe this hardware won't be enough to run Skyrim at max settings at 1920x1080. I can easily change che videocard and upgrade the RAM, but I was wondering if I should change the CPU as well.

Do you have any advice?

You should easily max the game. CPU is good, 4GB of RAM is enough for gaming, powerful GPU. You will be fine.