snouman

Allright. Thanks for replies. I decided to wait for ivy bridge since my cpu is really old. Then I will make major upgrade. Planning to change pretty much everything except case, psu and dvd-drive. I was thinking of getting the following parts: intel 3550k, 8 gig of ram radeon hd6870 or hd6950 or hd7850 (may be little overkill). Propably will wait for the release of nVidias mainstream 6xx cards and buy the card that has most perf./value. SSD samsung 830 or crucial m4 128gb My resolution will be 1920x1200 Got to stop drooling. Just need to be calm and wait :D

I'm asking these things because I don't have the game yet. I'm trying to decide weither I should wait for ivy bridge and buy skyrim after I have new rig or if I would buy only GPU and get skyrim now. E8400 is one of the better dualcores, but I think its now little outdated and might hinder better graphic cards like radeon 7850. I have not yet investigated which spesific mods to get but propably quite many. Propably I'll get all the graphic enchancing mods that are considered good, including high res textures to most objects/characters.

Hello, I'm new to skyrim. To be honest, I haven't even yet purchased the game. Once I get it, I would like to have the ultimate gaming experience. I would want to play the game with the higest graphical settings and with many graphic enchancing mods such as higher resolution textures. At current state I'm lacking badly with GPU since I have radeon 4850. CPU is intel e8400. Have 4Gb memory. I'm wondering, will upgrading GPU be enough to run the best graphical mods? Or do I need total overhaul to my rig to be able to play with smooth framerates? Are the graphical mods demanding on cpu and memory? I'm little tempted to get ivy bridge which will be soon released. But if my current cpu has enough power, I would propably postpone my uprading for few months.