Nope, no hardware issues, I monitor everything there is to monitor (temps, vram, ram etc) with a panel, and I've stress tested every part using Prime95 and other programs, plus I never had any problems with other games, games that are often more demanding than Skyrim. Also, my saves were @ the 10mb range at the time, they keep getting bigger as you play, but nothing crazy in my case, just a few KB per session. As for having to load too much, yeah - thought of that and I waited 31 days (setpcsleephours 750) so that everything that can go/reset, will go. The characters that got ruined did not have a problem at the beginning, only after.. say.. 30 hours - then the problems started. My money's still on the tesvsnip mods, will see how things go now that I've ditched them.