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Graphic card upgrade for Skyrim - Advice please?


tillicollpase

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I am thinking about upgrading my graphic card for Skyrim.

Currently using ATI HD 5750, 1G vram.

If I want to install texture/graphical enhancement mods all I want and run the game at the ultrawide resolution of about 5600x1050 and still get 60fps, what chipset and what kind of card do I need?

 

I would like to keep it under $300 (I will need to upgrade power too, so...), but I realize that's probably unrealistic given the aspiration for texture mods and ultrawide resolution. I wouldn't mind it going over a bit. I am willing to sacrifice fps down to 30fps.

 

Some suggestions and pointers about the spec items that I should pay attention to would be appreciated.

 

Thank you.

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I actually have that same resolution with only one Nvidia GTX 660 ti witch is over clocked to about (920 core clock) and (3500 memory clock) system spec :amd Phenom II x4 965t unlocked 6 cores and over clocked to 3.9 ghz 8 gb of ram and 3 hp 2211x Monitors.
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I dunno much about the ATI because I stopped using ATI a long time ago ever since that I have been using the nvidia. so I can say Skyrim wants at least gt450 to work properly with a decent frame rate. also make sure to check the reviews before buying. and keep this in your mind the performance is depend on the system configuration so if you have a low end processor don't expect a good performance with a high end graphic card.

 

Oh and don't forget to test the System with Ungine Heaven right after bought the graphic card so you can get a basic idea about the performance of your system before jumping to the Skyrim. Skyrim is actually a buggy game so it would be better use a properly codded program like Ungine to analyze the performance.

 

hope this helps you. :)) good luck then.!

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