Amyr

It really depends on a lot of things. Are you only gonna play Skyrim? Are you gonna download every HQ Texture you find? Do you enjoy AAA titles? What will be your native resolution? If you're gonna play only Skyrim/Fallout in 1080P, 4GB is quite enough for a modded game, if you don't go ham with 4K textures. If you think playing other games such as BF4, Witcher 3 or some other triple AAA title in 1080P or 2K, 4GB should be enough in most cases. But if you're talking about a heavily modded Skyrim in 4K, then I would suggest getting at least 6GB.

Paid Mods will never become a thing. You simply can't sell a mod without giving at least half of the profit to Bethesda. They will never let the modders to get 100% of the revenue. And because of that, I will always prefer donating over buying. If you update your existing mod and try to sell it, it will become a problem. If you combine your mods together and try to sell it, it will become a problem. For this to work, the mod should be a genuine mod. Meaning, it's unique, it doesn't already exist, it's well designed. It's not some bullsht retexture for .99 cents, it has to be an actual MOD. Would you guys still be against it if Valve didn't come up with updated mods? What if we had a brand new mod like Falskaar that adds so many things to your game. It's a huuuge mod and it's only $5. Wouldn't you guys just buy it? I know I would. Like I said earlier, problem was that they were trying to sell already existing free mods for money, the ones we already use. Instead they should have come up with complete new mods.

In response to post #24748294. #24748909, #24748959, #24749014, #24749054, #24749074, #24749089, #24749114, #24749169, #24749269, #24749289, #24749409, #24749439, #24749529, #24749564, #24749574, #24749674, #24749709, #24749814, #24749884, #24749889, #24749954, #24750114, #24750204, #24750249, #24750254 are all replies on the same post. Endorsement system should be gone anyway. It's completely useless. What would you gain if Falskaar had 250K Endorsements instead of 60K? Nothing. It's just a number. What we actually need is a review system. You can have 200 reviews and it seems like a really really small number compared to 60K Endorsement, but wouldn't it be better to have 98% approved rating with those reviews? Rather than having 200K mindless clicks because Nexus keeps forcing you to?

I never used Steam Workshop and I'll never use Steam Workshop. It is simply just too bad compared to Mod Organizer. If Modders want money in return you can do that here too, no need for Steam Workshop.

Found this for OP: He is getting between 75-100FPS at Whiterun Skirts in Combat. Ultra + COT. We can safely say that you won't be able to get 60FPS at 4K with a heavy ENB :/ But like I said earlier if you don't mind dropping to 30FPS, it's kinda doable.

I don't get it, why does the Titan X beat the 980 @1080p in all games but skyrim? You mean why 980 performs better in 1080P Skyrim? It's simple, game is not putting enough pressure on Titan X to use its full capacity. Basically GPU load was pretty low during that test. How much better do you think the Titan X is compared to the 980 with a modded game @1080p or even 1440p? (Assuming its possible to ballpark it, without actually testing it) 1.5 times better, assuming they both work at the same clock speeds. If you check the specs you'll understand why. http://anandtech.com/show/9059/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-titan-x-review But honestly single 980 is enough for 1080P. At least for me. I wouldn't buy a Titan X for 1080P, maybe not even for 1440P.

I don't get it, why does the Titan X beat the 980 @1080p in all games but skyrim? You mean why 980 performs better in 1080P Skyrim? It's simple, game is not putting enough pressure on Titan X to use its full capacity. Basically GPU load was pretty low during that test.

What are you trying to achieve here? First you say my facts are speculations because there are no reviews yet, I show you the review and then you say it doesn't show modded game? Every sane person with mediocre knowledge about modding Skyrim can easily understand that if you're getting around 80-90 FPS on 4K with Vanilla game, there is no way that you're gonna get constantly 60FPS with heavy ENBs. Even at 1080P you lose around 30FPS after installing a mediocre ENB. It's obvious that you're just trying to dodge the fact that you didn't even know about the review because you didn't even bother to search for it in the first place. You just thought "well I didn't see any reviews yet", and you clearly didn't know any site still using Skyrim so you just thought I was lying or something. It's understandable, everyone fails sometimes. No need to be ashamed. And I never said he needed two Titan X. Nor I assumed. He asked if he can get 60FPS on 4K with heavily modded setup plus ENB, and I said no but maybe 30. Facts and the review stand still, I don't need to say anthing aynmore. GL at disproving it. Look, I've found another review supporting the same data: http://www.hardwareluxx.com/index.php/reviews/hardware/vgacards/34550-reviewed-nvidia-geforce-titan-x-12gb.html?start=8

What's your exact budget? Because 500-750 is not a good tell. 250USD can make a huge difference on how your PC performs in games. I'm just gonna assume it's 750: CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($178.99 @ SuperBiiz) Motherboard: ASRock H81 Pro BTC ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($51.99 @ Newegg) Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($58.99 @ Newegg) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($53.49 @ Directron) Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 290 4GB DirectCU II Video Card ($289.99 @ Amazon) Case: NZXT H230 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($59.99 @ Newegg) Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($61.99 @ Amazon) Total: $755.43 Pretty decent PC I would say, can totally run modded Skyrim on 1080P just fine.

Speculation? Did you even search for any reviews before saying that? This review has been up for a week. http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2015/03/17/nvidia-geforce-gtx-titan-x-review/7 Bit-tech is one of the most trusted review sites and still uses Skyrim as a benchmarking tool for GPUs. I've been reading their reviews on every GPU for the last 2-3 years for Skyrim and I can say that they've never been wrong. As far as I know, Ocaholic and PCper still uses Skyrim too. Unfortunately they only used 1440P and not 4K. http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-TITAN-X-12GB-GM200-Review/Skyrim

Essentially, yes. 4K means you got 4 times more pixels on the screen compared to 1080P because of its resolution. Meaning SSAO, DOF and AA will do 4 times more work. Resulting in heavier performance hits compared to 1080P.

A single Titan X is just not enough for 4K heavily modded Skyrim. Especially with heavy ENBs that contains high SSAO and DOF will just cut your FPS into half. Vanilla game(vanilla ini files, with a modified uGrids and higher fov like 75-90 story might change) at 4K gives between 80-100FPS with Titan X, especially if you don't wanna drop below 60FPS you have very little room to mod. Let's say you're going for 30FPS. Even then finding the right setup will be hard. You won't be able to install every mod you want. It's doable of course but not the way you think, you'll have to sacrifice a lot of FPS heavy mods. Anything you install at 4K will hit you more than 2 times harder what it does in 1080P. And imagine K ENB, Serenity ENB or Realvision with full quality on 1080P. Even in 1080p, they hit like at least 30-40 FPS, maybe more.

That's a really big question, indeed.

Except for that awful GPU, build seems fine. You'll need atleast 3-4GB VRAM and something close to 270X or 760. ATLEAST. These days it's easy to find a cheap 290X. Or if you prefer NVIDIA you can go 970. If these are out of your budget you're gonna have to wait for 4GB 960Ti, coming really soon. Specs are released already.

Install SFO but disable the esp. Then install Verdant Grass Plugin. Use a lighting overhaul and then install an ENB(a good one). But I must say that it's really hard to get a good looking Skyrim with your PC specs. I believe you want something like this? Really different that vanila Skyrim? http://i.imgur.com/izgMHcH.jpg

That's only true for Vanilla Skyrim. And I don't remember last time I see someone playing unmodded Skyrim.

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Even though that it's not that high quality, ShadowPlay has the lowest performance impact. Which will basically allow you to be more greedy with your mod setup.

Why do you guys feel the need to use console, I don't get it? I've never had a problem with enchanthing tree. But then again I'm using a mod called Enchanting Awakened and I think it's fairly well balanced. Plus, I always use trainers.

Well, you will most likely be fine if you're not into overclocking and stuff like that. But you should also know that is a pretty entry level gaming PSU, so you don't expect much when it's only entry level. If you really want some high quality stuff from Corsair, you should check their RM, HX or AXi series. Other brands might be EVGA, Antec and Seasonic. But you should keep in mind that as long as you keep buying the entry level stuff, the brand doesn't really make any difference.

I think the vanilla game is pretty empty and feels dull. I wouldn't even buy the games if there wasn't a modding community. A lot of people I see says that modding community is just there to fix the parts that Bethesda didn't but I guess they just don't get making skyrim unique to yourself wouldn't be possible that way.

I've never heard or seen uGrids7 being unstable.

Just please don't make Sam whine all game long like "you're not okay Dean", I'm bored with it already :P Why not add also Crowley as a daedric prince they work with from time to time?

Shadowplay has the lowest performance impact but the image quality is not that great. If you're okay with not-so-great image quality then it will be fine but if you're looking for top-notch image quality with near zero performance loss, all you need to buy is a video capture card. Like these ones; http://gamerzone.avermedia.com/game_capture/game_capture_hd_2 http://gamerzone.avermedia.com/game_capture/extremecap_u3 You don't need to buy a secondary PC just for that :D

iBuyPower(or any website like them) might be useful for an average person but if you're enjoying unboxing new pretty tech and putting them together by yourself, modding it and making it look pretty, then they are pretty useless. Why would I wanna pay another dude 70USD to do this for me while I can do it myself and enjoy that time greatly. And I seriously don't trust anyone to do my cable management for me. I'm pretty obsessive about it. :)