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Just ordered all the parts this weekend, should arrive thursday. Never built a computer, so it will be interesting.

i5-2500
radeon 6850
4gb ram
1tb HD
Win 7

I might go back and play Oblivion and Fallout 3 again since I never played them on more than medium settings (and they still ran like crap, I just refused to go lower).

If you use Oblivion as a benchmark then it will be more like high settings on XBox. Don't think Bethesda will put in a huge amount of features and effects that will only work on PC. Probably you can increase draw distance for several settings and maybe there are a few slightly broken features you can enable via ini that you can't use on consoles. And of course there will be mods like highres texture replacers etc. But my computer is still much better than any console and if they spend some time to optimize the game for PCs then I should be able to run the game on nearly max settings smoothly. Everything else would be badly optimized. My monitor is a TFT with a native resolution of 1280x1024, so I'm not going to play on crazy resolutions either.

That is imo the one big advantage of the 'consolitis'. I remember that back in the late 90's/early 2000's the hardware spiral was crazy. I bought an expensive high end system in mid 99 and half a year later I couldn't play most of the new games anymore. Now developers have to optimize games to make them run on old hardware (consoles) instead of simply relying on new, stronger hardware. I would still be able to play most games on the PC I bought in early 2006 if I wanted. Ten years ago it would have been utterly impossible to play even the crappiest round based strategy game with a machine that is five years old.

Amiga 500

512K bytes RAM expandable to 1M, and configurable to 8MB

I will be swapping 5000 disks.

I've just bought a new HP Pavillion dv6 laptop:
Core i3 370M
3Gb RAM
Radeon Mobility 5650 1Gb
Win7 x64

That was enough for playing any game before on max (on native 1366x768 monitor, of course), but that dynamic snow might make me upgrade my Core2Quad q6600 desktop by a new motherboard that has unbroken PCI slot :shrug:

...a two year old article. Two /years/. Taking its advice now is a terrible idea, DDR3 is significantly cheaper than DDR2 RAM now.

Personally, I have a Phenom II X2 555, GTS 450, and 4GB RAM running Win7x64, which at my native of 1680x1050 has yet to struggle with anything but heavily modded oblivion - so I think I'll be ok.

They are both entirely different experiences in 1920x1080, all detail settings maxed. You will have a blast.

I went back after upgrading my laptop a year ago and it was like night and day, even before I installed the graphics mods. You will eventually want to check out Qarl's HD Texture Pack, OBGEv2, ENBSeries, AWLS and some mods that make the NPCs look realistic like Tamriel NPCs Revamped, Elaborate Eyes, Ren's Beauty Pack, HGEC Body Replacer

I'm so used to the let down of seeing games in videos and screenshots followed by playing them on my PC. I'm already going crazy waiting for the parts. I have so many games sitting in my desk, or on Steam that I bought over the last month in anticipation of getting this PC.

Core 2 Duo E6750 @2.66
3 GB DDR2 667
Geforce GTX 460 1G
Samsung SyncMaster B2430
Windows XP 32-bit

Might upgrade the CPU / Memory if Skyrim needs more. Then I will upgrade to Win7 64-bit as well, but right now Win-XP will do just fine. New Vegas doesn't seem to have a problem with it, and I'm still playing that.

Acer Aspire G7750 Predator

Processor:1 x Intel Core i7 930 / 2.8 GHz ( 4 cores )
Cachememory: 8 MB L3
Cache per processor: 8 MB
RAM: 12 GB (installed) / 12 GB (max) - DDR3 SDRAM - 1066 MHz
Graphic card: PCI Express 2.0 x16 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470
Video memory: 1280 MB
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Edition

Does anyone think this is good enough? Do tell :S

No, Skyrim needs a GTX 580, Core i7 2600K @4.8Ghz and 16 GB of 1600Mhz DDR3. Your system is useless and soooo 2010.

I upgraded yesterday . My specs are:

AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
4GB DDR3 1333Mhz
600W coolermaster modular PSU
ATI HD5770 1GB GDDR5
250GB 5400RPM HDD
ASUS M4A88T-V EVO/USB3
Windows 7 Home Premium 64BIT

Mostly upgraded for ARMA II, Test Drive Unlimited 2 and possibly Crysis 2. Hopefully this will allow me to play Skyrim at adequate settings, if not i would consider replacing my graphics card before release.

Pretty good build, except I would really change the hard drive. 5400RPMs is somewhat common for laptops, but for a gaming desktop, it would really benefit you to place a faster (7200 or 10K RPM) drive in there for loading.

Phenom X2 quad-core at 3.2 GHz, Geforce 470.

Awesome speakers, mind you. If it runs, it will make an unholy din. :frog:

I'm hoping this will be ok for medium settings, it struggles a bit with heavily modded Oblivion (but apparently most machines do?)

Otherwise I might throw a faster processor in as we approach 11/11, if I have some spare cash.

Yeah, i may do that. It's not like HDD's are very expensive anymore is it.

You're just joking.





Right?

About to upgrade (well, I'm not the one getting it, but I use it anyway ) to:

Intel Core 17-950
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UDR3 Intel Mainboard
12GB DDR3
775W Power supply
Radeon 4850 512MB HD (Keeping from before)
1TB 7200RPM HDD
Windows 7 Home premium 64 MB

A huge improvement on what I had; should handle Skyrim well.

I think go for Sandy Bridge CPU's.Their names start with 2000,like i7 2600.And I'd get i7 2600K with a budget like that.
P8P67 Pro Motherboard
6 Gigs of ram (well,4 would be enough actually)
GTX 570 or 580 (don't really know the ATI equivalents)

I'm not using a sound card,not sure if it's worth 200$...
You are missing the Power Supply and the case though.Those are important.After you decide your components,calculate the power (Thermaltake's site has one) and get a PSU 100-150W above that to make sure it doesn't get loaded.

Case is imprtant as well,because even at stock settings the new GPU's run at high temps and on hot days they cry out LOUD.So a case that keeps the components cool is also essential.

Ur gfx i think is too weak to play Skyrim. A HD5470, on desktops is already really slow, so a mobility is probably not even going to play it:(

My specs:
i7 860 @3,6GHz
GTX460 1GB (another one is on its way)
Vertex2
SB X-FI Titanium
2,2TB Harddrive
Win7

Current PC :

CPU : Intel Core2 Duo E6850 @ 3.00GHz
GPU : NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX (768 Mb)
RAM : 3,25 Gb
HD : 0,5 Tb
Win XP Pro SP3

But I just ordered a new one :

CPU : Intel Core i7 870 2,93 GHz
GPU : GeForce GTX 460 (1 Gb)
RAM : 6,144 Gb
DD : 1,5 Tb
Windows 7 64-bit

It should work fine with Skyrim - hopefully...

I'll keep my HannsG 28" monitor.

Funny, that's what I've planned on getting! Even down to the OC speed.

I kid, I'm definitely getting dual GTX 595s when they come out.

OK, still kidding.

In all seriousness, I do want at least one GTX 595, or for a single-GPU I'd wait for the 6xx series or whatever moniker they go with. And I would hope to wait for Ivy Bridge over Sandy Bridge, but it seems those'll be Q1 of 2012...

Currently (iMac):

Core i7 870 (2.93GHz, 3.6 turbo)
16GB RAM
ATI Mobility HD 5850 1GB *sigh* I overclock it 100MHz when I need to at least.
1TB HDD
27" IPS display (2560 x 1440)

I Want:

Core i7 2600K (3.4GHz, 3.8 turbo, 4.5+GHz OC) OR Ivy Bridge equivalent if it's out
16GB RAM
GTX 595 (dual GPU) or GTX 6XX if they're out
2 x 256GB-300GB SSDs (no RAID, just separate disks) ... New Intels will be 300GB but possibly not as good as the Micron C400 for example
Use my iMac as a display, run Skyrim at native 1440p. 4x the resolution of consoles!

Well, as of today:

- Intel Core 2 Duo 2.33 Ghz
- ATI RADEON HD 4850 512Mbs DDR-3
- 2Gbs RAM, with 333 clock
- 500 Gbs HDD
- Windows 7

I urgently need an upgrade. With this CPU and RAM I can barely run Oblivion on max settings I plan on replacing those two someday... If I can get the money.

@JacLaffite.

You'd be way better off with the new sandy bridge processors. They cost the same as the "old" i5/i7 processors but are much much quicker. Look for example at i5 2500 and i7 2600. If you could still cancel your order, I'd definitely do so.

Phenom Quadcore 9850
4 gigs of Gskill RAM
2x Nvidia GTX 460s in SLI
1 TB HDD, 1 500 GB HDD
WIn 7 Ultimate 64x

I just upgraded this computer a month or so ago so I'd be comfortable with the Witcher 2. I'm pretty sure it will be fine for Skyrim as well. And playing Oblivion right now with a ridiculous amount of mods is still holding up nicely.

- Core 2 Duo 6400 (2.1 ghz)
- 4 gb of 800mhz ddr2 ram
- radeon 4890
- win7 64

No money for upgrades atm. If I upgraded I would probably go for an am3+ bulldozer pc when it comes out. I hate it that i need to change memory too for the new platforms (ddr2->ddr3).