I'd say I use a large amount of texture mod's and my computer has no problem's playing at 1920x1080 on a 23" monitor(i also sometimes play on my 50" LCD) with Skyrim setting's maxed out + being pushed a little further with .ini tweaks. I haven't read much about the 7970, but it is a generation above my GPU so it should defiantly have no problems. Here are my spec's 3.7ghz AMD Phenom II x6 1090T processor AMD Saphhire HD6950 (2gb DDR5) graphic's card 8gb DDR3 system memory