[Emzy Baby!]

It's a completely useless thread. No one has a single clue how it will run on any system.

This is completely true and why I ended my previous post as few up from here with (imo) not I know

[Katie Samuel]

Im not much of a computer person, i mean i like to game on it etc. but im a handless amanteur when trying to do something fancy with it.
So how do i find out the stuff that you guys use to say ''My computer can run Skyrim''?

Educated guesses.

General familiarity with hardware and how well components work on different games.

For instance, If you want to compare GPUs, look at Metro 2033 benchmarks as it is very GPU dependent and the CPU doesn't matter so it doesn't matter what CPU is used. Link below:

http://www.legionhardware.com/articles_pages/metro_2033_performance_guide,9.html
http://www.legionhardware.com/articles_pages/metro_2033_performance_guide,6.html

...Metro is hard of GPUs and Metro performance will not directly translate into Skyrim performance though. Skyrim will most likely be lighter on GPUs to some degree. I'd look to other benchmarks such as The Witcher 2, Battlefield 2: BC2 and Crysis 2 DX9 benchmarks to round out a feel for how GPUs will run in large environments with a good poly count and high textures.

Why not Fallout 3/NV? While it may give a little bit of an indication, I don't think it will help to add much to the assessment.

[THE FOLLOWING IS MY SPECULATION ONLY] Skyrim has a little bit of Gamebryo traits in it and Bethesda's programmers have so much experience with Gamebryo that they probably "think in it" to some extent. This plus the fact that modding is in... hence grids, means to me that if you could discern anything from FO: 3/NV, it would be on the CPU end. Since those previous games are not well optimized for quad-cores and we don't know if Skyrim will use quads any better, the Fallout games aren't the best game to base a CPU purchase on either.



If you want to compare CPUs, look at Dragon Age: Origins benchmarks as it is a good overall CPU comparison. It seems to represent a good general balance of the effects of the CPU's clock speed, the number of cores and the CPU's architecture. You can see in this link below.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU/60

I have ''Intel Core 9300Q'', dont know much about bios.., never tried to OC..

Ok, just wondered. You CPU speed isn't the best, not awful, the Penryn is good architecture and you have 6MB L2 Cache... which is better than the 4MB of the Q8400.

My friend has the following PC and asked me if it could run Skyrim on max. I wasn't sure, so could you tell me what you think.

AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4GHz
1GB GTX 460
4GB RAM 1333Mhz
750GB Seagate Barracuda HDD - 7200rpm - 32MB cache
Windows 7 64-bit.

Display Resolution 1920 x 1080

We don't know what Max entails, what size the textures are and all that. It will run Skyrim well @ 1080p and look good doing it I'm pretty sure.