I don't think it's too off topic really. With no system requirements to go off of we basically have to try to figure out those requirements ourselves with what little knowledge we have, which is what people will need to know to determine if Skyrim will run on their PC.

Of course it could be counter productive if our guesses are way off. :biggrin:

I don't know a lot of computers but I said it wasn't new because of the socket. When I look at the list of components my hardware store gave me I noticed most motherboards (that were also more expensive) had either 1156 or even 1366 sockets. Most processors were also mostly 1156 or 1366. Hence my comment of it not being new. Like I said, I know pretty much next to nothing about hardware in computers so I have no idea how it all works. I know that I have to match slots and sockets and that I can't put an AGP graphics card in an PCI slot and that there is a difference between PCI and PCI-E slot wise. But that's about it.

Overclocking is something I will probably never attempt. I've managed to ruin enough computers without it somehow and I'm not testing my luck trying it.

I didn't mention the CPU or the graphics card because I had already asked here before getting it and since the folks here said I would get medium settings I didn't bother with it again. If you must know it's an Intel Core i3 2100 3,10 ghz dual core with 8 GB of RAM backing it up. The graphics card is an ATI Radeon 4850 HD. They seem to be able to handle OB on max settings just fine and because the quality of the visuals doesn't matter as much to me as the overall gameplay and story does I figure they can last me a while until I absolutely can't use them anymore.

Sorry if I seemed like a total newb in this. Guess in a way I am and I don't really mind being it. Leaves me with plenty to learn from you all. Hence why I'm constantly stalking this thread. Well that and I just love you guys too much to ever let go completely. :hugs:

Actually I think that's as on-topic as one of these threads has been in a long time, dealing with what we actually expect the game to utilize.

I'd be curious to know how Farcry's means of handling shadow did on various video cards, my cards only have 1GB of memory at their disposal and running on 1080p I'm not expecting performance to be adversely effected by textures. but I'm wondering if shadows are handled by the gpu as well will this cause a more significant hit?

@ Sunago: 1156 and 1366 are actually both older than 1155 and are being largely phased out. the next jump will be socket 2011.

Irony :clap:

But on topic: Once I save up enough (Goal is at least $350) (And hopefully is still in stock) I have chosen:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102952 (5770/6770 was over my budget goal)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115037 (Confirmed compatible for my mobo, thanks Tig Ol Bitties!)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371030 (As long it ain't the 250w I have -_- )

What do you guys think for running Skyrim? It comes to $346.52 so I barely touched my goal :laugh:

They are? :blink: how the heck does that make sense? Don't numbers move up the newer they are? How can you go from1156 to 1155 and then to 2011? That's like saying that Windows 95 came after 98 and wanting it to be logical?
Then again, computers have a lot of things that don't make sense to me with my form of logic. Must be either a female thing or just a me thing...probably the latter.

While true, don't want to derail this thread by chatting up a storm on what else we think will or will not affect CPU/GPU performance with no real benchmarks...that can easily fill up the thread with more opinions. This is supposed to be for others to report their systems and get an educated guess on how their system will perform. Specs and straight-forward answers and system builds if requested for. Let's try to keep it that way....

It's all educated guesses here (hopefully )




We were all newbs once. My opinion on your system performance is actually more mediumish at least....not so much low.




High Settings, but you knew this already




It's not just about pin-count (well, it's only one less pin). Architectural changes too. But it does somewhat go against the norm of growing pin-count with newer sockets. :shrug:

Well if you want a reference point my Geforce 9800 GT with 512 MB handled them pretty well. I did bring the shadows in a bit to smooth out the framerate and decrease mouse lag but it wasn't absolutely necessary. It also had various levels of shadow quality which I think I kept on medium.

If you look at any of the scenic screenshots of Skyrim you'll notice that at a certain distance objects stop casting shadows. It's a little hard to tell because they still have dark and light sides to them but there's no stretch of shadow covering other objects like you would see nearby. The distance of this seems about the same as Farcry 2's. If shadow distances are adjustable then you can probably push them out pretty far if you have a decent video card.

PROCESSOR Intel? Core? i7-980 Six Core Processor, 3.33GHz, 12MB Cache
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows? 7 Home Premium, 64Bit
MEMORY 12GB DDR3 1333MHz (3x 4GB) Triple Channel Memory
VIDEO CARD Dual 1GB GDDR5 NVIDIA? GeForce? GTX 460 - SLI Enabled
HARD DRIVE 1TB - SATA 3Gb/s, 7200RPM, 32MB Cache HDD

1024x768 Display
Think i could manage high with this?

Just checkin' :spotted owl:



You were looking at max easily but idk about the GPU. I am not that educated on NVIDIA cards so I may be wrong

Oh wait stupid me, I was seeing something else :blink: No skooma for me tonight! :rofl:

But really, max settings easy

I have an old 1GB GDDR5 AMD Radeon? HD 6950 but i hate single Cards....and The NVIDIA was given to me when my friend upgraded to the Tri-CrossFireX 2GB GDDR5 AMD Radeon? HD 6950 (I really hate him)

Old? :blink: I think you are better off with that 6950

Yes old Have you seen the Dual 4GB GDDR5 AMD Radeon HD 6990 I don't like to use old cards but i honestly know very little about hardware and even less about the companies but i take it Radeon is better? If it is that much of a difference I'll just see about getting one of there dual cards.

Ohh I see what you mean. Maybe wait for another members opinion :yes:

i'm going to pm you my mailing address so you have somewhere to get rid of that awful old card..... :tongue:

By the way didn't Todd say they are trying out a new graphics engine with Skyrim? Won't that be a major factor in what can run it?

CPU- Intel? Core? i7-2630QM
OS- Windows? 7 Home Premium 64-bit version
RAM- 6 GB DDR3
GPU- 1 GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M
NR- 1366 x 768

Do you think this is preferable to playing on xbox360?
Thank you

Haha well I'm gonna do a side by side comparison when Skyrim comes out and then i might get rid of one of them

In terms of graphical splendour probably equal to or a bit above what the 360 will be capable of. Though preferability may comprise more than just graphics, like controller use, tv display, ease of install, wanting to use mods, etc.

Do you guys think I should upgrade?

i7 920
nvidia gtx 280
asus p6t deluxe v2
6gb ram
regular sata 2.0 hdd

you'll probably be just fine on high to max (depending on resolution)....if it won't max it just look at a GPU upgrade....

Would the performance from an 6950 be that much better from the 6870? I'm just wondering if its worth the money.

Also why does everyone link their components from newegg as opposed to tigerdirect for example?

A GTX series card running Skyrim at 720p? Of course it will run fine. Remember that Skyrim is running on the Xbox also.

The Radeon 6950 is capable of maxing pretty much all games right now. Your viewpoint on the card baffles me....the Radeon 6990 is not even worth the going price. If you hate the card so much, then send it my way :thumbsup:

There are plenty of people who would love to have it.




Yes it is.



Not really. The GTX 280 is still quite capable and should max the game or come rather close to it.




http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/331?vs=290

newegg is just a default that most know. TigerDirect is alright too, but doesn't have as nearly as many components from my experience.

What game would you compare with Skyrim graphics-wise? I'm not building a new rig for this game but I'm planning on getting one in the next year or so and I would like to know the level of graphics that this type of game is currently at. Will this game be a Witcher 2 and require the best of the best available? What graphics card do you think we PC users could get by with and maintain a decent looking picture?

I'm not interested in what the minimum is, I would like to have a card that will be able to run this game comfortably at higher settings and last several years before replacing.

Thanks in advance

tsorrells :twirl:

The textures are to be much better for the pc. Although I believe we don't get any teselation.