Aurilion

I also play both and am good in both. It's just a matter of remembering that the guns work differently for each. In CoD it's an arcade so you can pretty much full auto anyone in the face except when at range, but BF3 is aimed more towards realism so you have to learn each guns characteristics and adjust accordingly which also means that 9/10 times you can't just spray someone in the face for easy kills even from close range.

DjZephyr, Skyrim does indeed run faster than Oblivion. I played both games within days of each other on the same machine and the loading times on Skyrim are for me half of the time from Oblivion. But Oblivion is less buggy right now so the graphics do on occasion slow down on Skyrim whereas Oblivion never experiences any slow down, but Oblivion is old and fully patched (including unofficial patch). So yea, once Skyrim's graphical issues are resolved it will without question be faster than Oblivion and presumably also faster than FO3.

None, my stealth is mighty and bow aims true, companions just get in the way and make my job twice as hard as need be. If i were to choose to venture out with a companion in future it would be Lydia but i would be sure to give her fully enchanted dragon/daedra armour and weapons first and maybe 1 or 2 useful spells so she can heal herself and leave me to do my job.

Those are Dragon Priest masks. As for Yngol's helmet, I don't know. The wooden mask is found on the corpse of a bandit/bodyguard in the area surrounding Labrynthian along with some interesting notes. The guy who the mask belong to (according to the notes) put the mask on in the area of Labrynthian and disappeared, he did this a few times. I think maybe that is a clue to what it does but i have not bothered to test this myself. It has no apparant use inside Labrynthian (i was there earlier for a quest, took the mask with me) but maybe it does something if used in the area directly outside the dungeon.

Of all the NPC's i have met in Skyrim so far i would have to say that my favourite is always the NPC hanging from the end of my killcam. Either that or Brynjolf.

An interesting list. I notice the Radeon HD4850 1GB in the Medium/High category. There is also another model of the same card which uses GDDR5 (discontinued as far as i know) as opposed to the standard GDDR3 version, i have the 1GB GDDR5 model and i can confirm that it runs the game in High/Very High settings.