That is an excellent choice, although I must say that the 955 is exactly the same processor, AMD just clocked it up a little (something you can do on your own)

The deal with quad core processors is not all games utilize 4 cores, but if you're one of those people that are into multi tasking. (gaming with firefox/pandora/chatclients/ or even recording gameplay) a quad-core is a great idea... and you will wish you had it when you do bump into a 4core game.

I imagine you are trying to buy a reasonably priced processor, but I still feel obligated to tell you that AMD is releasing a new line of processors "Bulldozer" next month.

Yeah, just wait to see how they are....those continuous delays are getting a bit suspicious... :ph34r:

Thanks for the info.

I will likely stick to the Phenom II for now, since my budget won't allow much else. I can always upgrade later

Thanks again

I would assume it has to do with the 32nm yield problems that Llano is also fighting, BD is in the same boat. AMD's stock dropped by an entire dollar today as well. To be honest I may just go z68 and jump ship over to an i52500k

No, you can't, unless your motherboard is AM3+ compliant. So choose wisely, or you may have to change your entire computer again sooner than you wanted.

And, as an additional suggestion, sometimes, a bit of overpowering is nice. I bought my Phenom II x4 920 (yours is barely a bit more powerful than it) 3 years ago. It was a bit of overpowered in it's time, but it has paid off: now I only had to upgrade my GPU in order to max Skyrim



Or it may have to be with the poor performance the first samples were rumored to have I've been following pretty closely Bulldozer's development, and I definitely will wait for the benchmarks before making any decision.

Anyways, I think it'll be Sandy Bridge-E + X79 for me surely....

Missed on my first pass and have recently had to looked at core2 processors myself


Well the CPU prediction here is still a murky to me but Im sure this one fall behind a bit by any standard. The rest of your rig seem solid. Strangely most of the core2duo CPUs are horribly priced considering you can get an i3 at the same price that blows it away, and decent quad cores are even worst when you can pick up a sandy bridges 2400 or 2500 for the same range. I did see one good pick on newegg for a budge upgrade. Still prolly better off upgrading to a new platform if you change processors IMO
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115059

There is no prediction "here" on Skyrim and CPUs, other than to guess that is unlikely to change from what FO-NV was.

Will my PC run Skyrim?

IBM PS/2 Model 60
Intel 80286 @ 16MHz
8MB RAM SIMMs @ 80ns
40MB MFM HDD
Integrated XGA graphics 256kB, max res1024×768i @ 256 colors @ 43.5 Hz
VGA/XGA monitor, max res 1024x768
HD 3.5" FDD @ 1.44MB and HD 5.25" FDD @ 1.2MB...
Currently running Windows 3.1

While console GPUs are rather old now they still have impressive CPUs so it wouldn't be a massive surprise if the game was more CPU intensive then previous Bethesda titles.

Of course I may be talking [censored] without knowing it.

You might be able to max pong.

Bard's Tale was concurrent with that hardware, circa 1985. But XGA was a development of the post-386 period. Game developers mostly ignored the early MS-DOS machines until EGA was released in 1986, sticking with Atari's 8-bit PC, Commodore's C64, and assorted other primitive machines that had better graphics than IBM's CGA.

Alright, I know I'm using mostly 2 year old equipment here...

• 2.4ghz AMD Phenom X4 CPU
  
• PNY nVidia GTX 260+
  
• 4GB DDR2 RAM
  
• 1 TB Hard drive
  
• A really nice 600W power supply (in case you cared)
  
• Windows 7
  
• Screen Resolution is 1680X1050
  
• And a mediocre XFX SLI motherboard

Yeah I know I need to upgrade...

:celebration:

I wish they'd hurry up and release the official specs so I can make my decision on which video card I wanna get. (On my current non-vintage PC.)

May as well ask. How'ma doin'?

Windows XP, SP3
Intel? Core?2 Duo E8500 @ 3.16GHz
2GB Corsair TwinX XMS2, DDR2 @ 667MHz
Asus P5B-E Plus, Socket 775, P965, BIOS ver. 0636
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
20" @ 1680x1050
Audigy 7.1 Audio PCI-E
￡0.00

Mostly 60fps w/ mid-high settings in FO3.
Mostly 60fps w/ mild frame-drop/stutter (tolerable), mid-low settings in DX:HR. :mellow:

~Xeph'

If Bethesda is actually going to be able to meet their proposed release date, they should already be in a position to release that information (after all, they'll need the contents of the DVD ready to go Gold 2-3 weeks before then, so what's that? October 18?)

The release date is in 42 days...?

Probably close to high settings.

The release date is NOVEMBER 11th, not October.

Back to the topic at hand:
2 6870s in Crossfire is similar in performance to a 6870X2 card, yes?

The tragic loss of the month October was sorted in a couple of minutes . .

Hi,

Recently ordered a new PC, wondering if this is sufficient to run Skyrim at maximum settings?

Intel i7 2600K running at 3.4GHz
16GB DDR3 1600MHz
3GB Palit Nvidia 580

Running a single monitor at 1920x1080 resolution. Motherboard is dual channel and SLI/Crossfire ready.

Will probably get a second GPU for SLI for a multiple monitor (2+) set up later on.

Of course you will max it, you have a 2k+ Rig. It also say's in the OP.

Okies, just wanted to put my mind at ease. I'm not computer illiterate, but I don't necessarily know all the ins and outs :] I thought it would be good enough reading the original post, however, I worry about most things, so to put my mind at ease, I thought I might as well ask. Can't hurt really.

No, you don't need to upgrade. Unless a game you play with that thing isn't working well for you, or there are very cheap upgrades due to sales, it would be a bad idea to waste money on upgrades. Preemptively upgrading when your hardware is currently that powerful would be like burning money. You will definitely be able to run it, and maybe even max it.

Can any of you guys tell me that if my ram usage is very high will my game crash? I really think I need more ram.

I am a PC noob. I have used macs for years because I am into audio production, and for me, the mac is where its at in that department. They do, however, svck bawls for gaming. It isn't that they are not capable, it is that not nearly as much software is developed for them in the game world.

Anyway, I want to play Skyrim (and Morrowind) on the PC so I can use mods - after a vanilla playthrough of course.

I was looking at financing one of these: http://www.dell.com/ca/p/desktops?fc=studio-xps-desktop-pcs#ViewByTabs

What do you think? I don't have a ton of money, so I am going to stay away form the Alienware stufff, and I have a feeling something can be purchased elsewhere or built for much cheaper. I live in Canada if that has any relevance. I would really appreciate any help you guys could give. Unfortunately, I am the only one out of my friends who cares about PC gaming, so I don't really have anywhere to turn but the interwebs.