Thats the overall plan :wink_smile:

IPAD 2, I wish!!! :touched:

mine was a barebones kit( toweer, cpu and graphics card) that i baught off of new egg.com

it has an amd anthelon II x4 proccesor that i overclock to 3.5-3.8

it came with an ati raedon 5450 ( but im getting the 5850 or whatever the equal priced card is by then)

i bought 4 gb ram

and switched over my hard drives and dvdrom and for all that it only cost me @420 american dollars

Good luck with custom made laptops. I don't think we're there quite yet

I'm getting Skyrim for Steam. If Bethesda's jumping on Valve's bandwagon, then I could just end up playing it for PS3 as a result, but I have my nice desktop here. Overpriced piece of crap, but it runs games well enough. Plus you can't beat mods.

My specs are:

Alienware Aurora R2

Windows 7 Home Premium - 64 Bit
A single ATI Radeon HD 5670. I'd like to upgrade to an Nvidia GTX 590 whenever that comes out, but to do that I'll have to upgrade my power supply.
Dual-core Intel Core i5 @ 3.2 GHz. Looking to go up to quad core. Apparently I can't get i7 or something.
6 GB of RAM. I'm looking to push that up to 8.
Some proprietary Alienware motherboard.
A weak power supply. Also proprietary and bothersome to upgrade. Would probably require a complete rewiring of the system, and it needs to fit with the chassis.
A 500GB hard drive that really doesn't matter. Though it is my lowest score on the Windows Experience Index.
A second 1TB hard drive that I use to store media.
Liquid cooling

And then I just have an installation of Linux on my primary hard drive that I like to boot off of every once in a while. Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal.

I can max out graphics on Crysis 2 and average about 30 frames a second, 15 during particularly strenuous loads. Not perfect, but it'll get me by.

And knowing my family, there will be a version for the 360 floating around somewhere. I might get my hands on that if I find the PC version unfulfilling for whatever reason

I have tried Oblivion on all three platforms. I like it best on the 360. Don't know why :shrug:

So I will get Skyrim for the 360

ROFL & ROFL, me too!

Computer guts mystify me entirely :brokencomputer: I just go for a dell, and we all know how that will turn out.
It is probably not allowed to PM for great cheap gaming computer. Way too complicated! I would rather play a 50,000 piece puzzle.

Remember when we were all looking forward to "the next TES game, on the great next gen console" after oblivion came out?
Does that mean that it will play on the 360, that's what I've got. I hope not! I want to be able to play an epic battle with more than 5 enemies and 2 allies, and that is not an epic battle!

Whatever the next gen Xbox will be, I will use it.

PC. Honestly, I would never consider getting it for anything else. I'm perfectly comfortable sitting in front of my computer, so there's no real reason for me to ever get it on a console. PC specifics, as of right now, aren't important, as I'll hopefully be replacing them for Skyrim before it's out.

360.

I would rather get it for PC, but my computer is barely able to run Morrowind. (In fact, the xbox version of Morrowind looks better than my PC.)

It's not so bad - a 10 piece puzzle that comes with instructions on exactly where to put the little bits of card, and each one has a unique pointy-out bit so they'll only fit where they're meant to be.

I am getting it for the Xbox 360, because the 360 controller feels natural, and when I am done with the vanilla game, which will take a very, very, long time, I will get it for the PC and use the wonderful mods that the community makes.

'360

Xbox 360.

Deal with it. B)

Thanks for the info on your PC's guys. And thanks for your opinions about the consoles.

PC:

CPU: Phenom II 720 x3 (unlocked to 4 cores and OC'd to 3.2 GHz)
GPU: GTX 470
RAM: 4 GB DDR2 667MHz
HDD: 2 x1 TB. Forget the exact model. One of them used to be an external hard drive...

Probably going to upgrade to DDR3 RAM/Mobo over the summer. Might as well get it while it's dirt cheap.

If the PS3 version is substandard I'll wait until the GOTY edition is out and in the meantime treat myself to some PS3 games that are guranteed to work well, such as Batman: AC, Uncharted 3, and the Last Guardian.

:gun:

10 piece puzzle: 1) computer "box", 2) monitor, 3) keyboard, 4) mouse, 5) L Speaker, 6) R speaker, 7) "box" power cord, 8) monitor power 9) display plug 10) network cable...
Heh, even then, the 4-5 manuals are 50 pages long.

You are just being too modest. Besides, I was talking about figuring out what parts to buy, best prices, etc.
On second thought, I suppose I could be stealing the configurations off this topic... :ninja:

360 and PC if i get enough money to upgrade my computer..

Better start saving your money, the 720 elite will probably be 1200$ at launch.

I just got a new PC though not specifically for Skyrim.

My specs:


AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition Thuban 3.3GHz, 3.7GHz Turbo Core w/unlocked multiplier.
HIS IceQ X Turbo Radeon HD 6850 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX w/ Factory overclock
CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866

Rumor has it, It has a 2015 release date. Though I wouldnt trust me as a source on this.... I cant remember were I read it either.

Oh no, I'm on my phone and can't fetch computer specs! Well, I'm pretty nerdy but not nerdy enough to have built my PC (I'll make the boytoy do it next time). I ordered mine off of I Buy Power, which is a nice compromise since you choose and pay for the components and they put it together for you for a flat fee.

PC.

The i7930 at 3.4GHZ and a GTX470 and 6gig Ram and 27' Monitor.

It should max out Skyrim, unless the game really will be heavy.

PC is a must no matter what, MODS, I say it again MODSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! :goodjob: :bowdown: :drool: :tes:

It really does prolong the game, hell half the fun after you have played the vanilla to the fullest is to browse Nexus for hundreds of mods, so much fun and prolongs the game for years. I hope all the prolific modders will be back.
Another Quarls texture pack, OOO and such would be great.
I know Vanilla will be great too, but there is only so much they can do if they want to release the game in a reasonable time, they can't do hundreds of armors etc, modders can.
I love Bethesda for always coming out with mod-tools , the best developers especially when it comes to this.

If DX11 mods can be easily enabled (most surely), I foresee that we'll see epic things. Epic.

Well I'll have a huge new Sharp quad pixel LED TV so gonna see if that makes a difference when I compare it next to the old plasma. 360 because the controller is just perfect(well for Oblivion it was) so I'll assume the same for this. But if PS3s Bluray stuffs looks better then maybe that version.

xbox

I will miss the mods, but I get to play on a comfy couch with a 65' TV. Fair trade.