Whats your current PC specs? : V - Skyrim

» Sat May 28, 2011 6:21 pm

My comp is a piece of crap

a laptop no less, aiming for a reasonable PC before the games released

» Sat May 28, 2011 11:14 am

I7 CPU 920 @ 2,67 Ghz
3 Gb of RAM
nvidia 9800 gt
Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit

Will it blend?

» Sat May 28, 2011 7:51 am

I7 CPU 920 @ 2,67 Ghz
3 Gb of RAM
nvidia 9800 gt
Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit

Will it blend?

The GPU surely will run it, although it's 3 generations old. If you want to spend a little money, get a GTX 570 or so. By October they should be pretty cheap.

Also, a bit more RAM would help a lot (you'd need to switch to a 64-bit OS, though).

» Sat May 28, 2011 5:05 pm

An off the shelf model and probably nowhere near to running 'Skyrim'

Athlon II x2 240 dual core 2.80Ghz
3GB Ram
Win 7 Home edition 64 bit
NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430

It's upgradeable though - just not in the mood (yet) to do any upgrades.

» Sat May 28, 2011 8:58 pm

The GPU surely will run it, although it's 3 generations old and it's only DX9.

Wrong. Geforce 9800GT is DX10.

» Sat May 28, 2011 7:20 am

Wrong. Geforce 9800GT is DX10.

Yeah, I remembered now that I'm stuck on DX9 because of XP SP3, not my GPU...just before your turbo-response

» Sat May 28, 2011 6:43 pm

No problem. I'm stuck on XP-DX9 too, and I have a DX11 card. :rolleyes:

» Sat May 28, 2011 6:48 am

Thanks for the info fellas

» Sat May 28, 2011 7:24 am

Waste of money if you ask me. The 1155 cpu's are not much faster than your 750.

Clock for clock it's not much faster, but the overclocking capabilities look fantastic. I've heard of people achieving 4.5 GHz with stock volts on a $200 CPU, and that's just insane!

And the Radeon 5850 is still a 'high end' card, so it will probably play Skyrim on max settings...

Haha, we can hope. If it has directX 11 support with tessellation...well, bad things may happen :flamethrower:

» Sat May 28, 2011 8:30 am

No problem. I'm stuck on XP-DX9 too, and I have a DX11 card. :rolleyes:

hehe, anyway, I plan to upgrade to Windows 7 SP1 64 Bits soon. The final SP1 has just been sent to OEM manufacturers, and it's a matter of weeks that it's out for the public.

I want to test DX10, and also I'm tired of having only 3 gb's of RAM instead of 4.

» Sat May 28, 2011 9:30 am

OS: Windows7 Home Premium
CPU: AMD Phenom X3 - 3,1 GHz
GFX: Gainward Geforce GTX 460 SE
RAM: 4 GB DDR3-1333
HD: Maxtor 250GB 7.200 / 16 MB Cache

» Sat May 28, 2011 11:12 am

My PC is held together with rubber bands and paper clips and lots of duct tape. I hate PC's, if it's not the power source or cooling fan that need to be replaced it needs a ram upgrade or new video card constantly. deities help me if it needs any sort of software upgrade takes me hours for the most simplistic things boy am I glad an internal modem in the tower is a thing of the past for me although I now have about 15 or more different wires running in and out of the thing.
A heavy and fragile tower pc is not a winning combination for me hate lugging it into the computer shop I go to. Glad I have video game consoles so much easier.

I refuse to believe that anybody can actually be (and I mean no offense), this inept. I'm almost certain it's all placebo effect from /believing/ that PCs are like this.

» Sat May 28, 2011 5:46 pm

Ahh, a public display of e-peen, why not

Intel i7 4Ghz, 4GB DDR3, 120GB Vertex 2 solid state HD, Radeon 5970, gaming at 1080p.

I actually built this thing for New Vegas, I thought it would be overkill but it still drops a few frames now and then, thank god Gamebryo is finally buried.

» Sat May 28, 2011 6:53 am

I wish I had a really nice computer.
I spend all my money on guitars and amps :\

» Sat May 28, 2011 4:08 pm

4gp ddr2

2.5 duo core

nvidia 8800 card

its a huge laptop btw

the HP HDX 9200

oh and just installed windows 7 ultimate 64bits its great but all my games are gone

» Sat May 28, 2011 6:18 pm

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.

Yeah, I'm giving my GPU and sound card a second thought now...as for the case I was gonna go with the Cooler Master HAF 922M ATX Mid Tower Case and a 650W power supply, but that power calculator looks real handy cause I wasn't sure about the wattage. I think I'll be sticking with 6 GB of RAM though.

Thanks a lot for the suggestions! I'll look into the i7 2600K and the P8P67 Pro Motherboard.

» Sat May 28, 2011 5:09 pm

e8400 @ 4GHz4GB DDR2 @ 4-4-4HD5870 @ 950/1250Will upgrade before 11/11/11. Not sure what to just yet. After all, PCI-e 3.0 is just around the corner...Not to mention all kinds of CPU shenanigans. So, I'll wait for now.If you check the charts, for games like Fallout 3 (and therefore Oblivion, one might assume) the e8000 family is nearly top of the list, *even now*. No, seriously. Overclock them, and well. There you go. It's not like the engine there can use more than 2 cores, at best. Otherwise, yeah, you'd see some 4/6/8-thread monsters doing better in FO3. Not so.Hence, I'm sticking with socket 775 for the time being.

Dang, you beat me on the GFX Card:

e8400 @ 4GHz - not E0 stepping, it was a PITA to get it Prime95 stable at 4GHz, but it has run for over 2 years now without a hiccup. I lapped it to get the core temps down considering I am pushing the voltage a little higher than I'd like.
8GB DDR2 @ 4-4-4-12 1068MHz (I think, forgot what the bootstrap gave me)
HD5850 - lots of room to overclock though, just don't need to currently but have tested extensively
8800GTS 512 running the Physx side of things (yay for hacks)
Asus Xonar Sound Card
500GB 7200RPM main drive
1KW Antec True Power Quattro
Antec 900 case
50" LG Plasma @ 1080p - a little bit of image retention, but it never stays around even after 8-9 hour gaming sessions with HUDs up the whole time. Lag is minimal . . .
Win7 64bit Ultimate

The only thing I am planning is perhaps crossfiring the 5850 and using my PCI Physx card again. And maybe a SSD, but still don't know about their controller issues - my brother has borked 2 as well, and once they are bad good luck recovering data. I've had hard drives get the click of death and never lost much. Just my two bottlecaps.

» Sat May 28, 2011 7:42 pm

AMD Phenom II X4 955

4GB DDR3 1600mhz ram

1TB 7200rpm hd

Win 7 64bit Ultimate\

And I'll be getting a radeon HD6850 and oc'ing it pretty soon.

» Sat May 28, 2011 4:13 pm

Dell
Studio XPS 8100
Intel® Core™ i5 CPU 750@ 2.67HGz 2.67 GHz
6.00 GB
64-bit Operating System
ATI Radeon HD 5450

Hope I did that right, heh :laugh:

» Sat May 28, 2011 7:47 am

AMD Sempron Mobile
1 GB DDR2 Mobile Memory
ATI Radeon 1500 ( Or something)

It Freezes When I try to play Oblivion on Lowest possible settings :sadvaultboy:
I will Have A "G-Unit" Computer for Skyrim though.

» Sat May 28, 2011 12:21 pm

Since I doubt I'll get my grad present (custom computer) by then, I'll probably be buying Skyrim for the 360 or PS3, no way my computer could handle it.

» Sat May 28, 2011 5:47 am

Can somebody please tell me what needs upgrading among my specs? I've been asking the same question for weeks now.

Current Specs

OS: Windows XP 32-bit (just bought Windows 7, so problem solved.)
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.13 GHz
3.00 GB of RAM
GPU: NVidia GeForce 9400 GT
Storage: 1 terrabyte hard-drive (along with a backup drive)

First and foremost, your video card svcks

either get a 560GT at least or wait for nvidia's next gen (if you're exclusively nvidia). But your processor will be slow too... maybe you can find a FAST and cheap Core2Quad? I'd just save the HDD and the RAM (if it's DDR3) and get a mobo+proc+videocard. But FIRST, THE VIDEOCARD.

» Sat May 28, 2011 12:22 pm

AMD Phenom II 965 quad core - 3.40 GHz
4 Gb RAM
ATI Radeon 5850 GPU
Win 7 (64 bit)

Also my husband is on at me to build him a new PC at some point so we should have another decent PC by the time Skyrim is released. If I upgrade anything, it will be my monitor as the one I have right now is not very good.

» Sat May 28, 2011 5:41 pm

My current PC:
Intel Q8400 2.66GHz
2GB RAM
NVidia 9800GT
350GB HDD

» Sat May 28, 2011 6:27 pm

In the sig. But what I would love is 4 more gigs of RAM and a 32inch 1920x1080 TV for my monitor :flamethrower: