thewhiterabbit Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Hi, I'm looking to build a new computer for the equivalent of about $1000-1200, to be able to run Skyrim on Ultra High graphics with ENB (maybe Sharpshooters or Unreal Cinema). Anyone got some tips on what to get? Is it more important to get a good graphics card with lot of memory than a better processor? Any help would be appreciated, thanks. /Thewhiterabbit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiggerdyret Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 With a heavily modded Skyrim both gpu and cpu are equally important. It also depend on what types of mods you want to install. If you want alot of npcs on screen then cpu is key. If you want high-res textures and ENBs you'll need a good graphics card. You shouldn't go for a card with more than 3gb ram, because Skyrim isn't able to handle more than that (if I understand it correctly). But don't underestimate the importance of a good cpu! Check out this link, it has all you need to know: http://wiki.step-project.com/Guide:Hardware#tab=Introduction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesshin20 Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 You wont be able to run everything in Ultra graphics in Skyrim with ENB no matter how good your rig is. I have a 3770k at 4.6k Ghz and 2 x ATI Radeon 7970 Ghz Editions at 1200 Mhz in Crossfire. I can run Crysis 3 with 50 FPS and everything at max. But if I download every ULTRA texturepack there is I will CTD because this requires alot more memory then stoneage skyrim engine can handle. Even Crossfire doesnt work properly in Skyrim. Unless you play in Window mode. So buy a awesome computer for 2k dollars but you will not utilize it properly in skyrim anyway. If some Bethesda dude or the modding community would make it so that Skyrim would use ALL my 16GB of Ram then I could be running Ultra graphics as well all over. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesshin20 Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 To answer your question: You wont get a top notch computer for gaming for 1200k. But you can get good one. And good enough for skyrim. I would recommend to get 4770 Haswell Chip from Intel or a 4570 (good investment for the future) but remember you need a correct mother board with the right chipset for the CPU. If thats expensive for you then get a 3570 Ivy Bridge CPU. Its the best bang for the buck CPU at the moment. For GPU I would go with Nvidia 770 or 7970 from ATI. They are expensive but if you are into gaming you need to invest in it and those cards will last a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhiterabbit Posted July 20, 2013 Author Share Posted July 20, 2013 Thank you, much appreciated! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prod80 Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 NVidia gtx7xx series is not compatible with ENB due to drivers, which NVidia has not sorted out yet.AMD in general has issues with ENB You don't need a beast CPU for gaming.... Core i5 is fast enough, almost any model (my 2nd gen i5 2500K runs on 15% tops with Skyrim...............)You don't need over 3GB of VRAM for Skyrim but I do suggest you get a 3 or 4GB model because of other games and soon to be released games.You can probably grab a GTX670 or 680 real cheap now, and the GTX680 has the exact same chip as the GTX770.No matter what you do, get a 64bit OS, preferably Win7 and 8GB RAM with decent speed (1600 Mhz+) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhiterabbit Posted July 20, 2013 Author Share Posted July 20, 2013 (edited) Tesshin20 what texture packs would you recommend running Skyrim with if I want to run it with ENB? And thanks everyone for your replies. :) Edited July 20, 2013 by thewhiterabbit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thenobody0 Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 (edited) I wouldn't recommend Nvidia at the moment. Not until they sort out their driver issues. The last updates have been horrible. And the newest cards only run with the latest drivers, so you would have to 'hack' an older stable driver to get it to work with your fancy new card. I installed the latest driver the other day and instantly experienced terrible performance. I couldn't even use my web browser anymore without everything freezing periodically. I thought I screwed up somewhere or maybe my system was failing but then I checked the GeForce forums and everyone was complaining about problems with the new drivers. People were pissed actually. Luckily I still had the previous driver backed up and going back to it fixed all my problems. But I'm sure someone is going to come in and go "Well I just installed the experimental BETA and everything runs fine". Well maybe but the majority of people are having problems. Edited July 20, 2013 by thenobody0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prod80 Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 On 7/20/2013 at 2:31 PM, thenobody0 said: I wouldn't recommend Nvidia at the moment. Not until they sort out their driver issues. The last updates have been horrible. And the newest cards only run with the latest drivers, so you would have to 'hack' an older stable driver to get it to work with your fancy new card. I installed the latest driver the other day and instantly experienced terrible performance. I couldn't even use my web browser anymore without everything freezing periodically. I thought I screwed up somewhere or maybe my system was failing but then I checked the GeForce forums and everyone was complaining about problems with the new drivers. People were pissed actually. Luckily I still had the previous driver backed up and going back to it fixed all my problems. But I'm sure someone is going to come in and go "Well I just installed the experimental BETA and everything runs fine". Well maybe but the majority of people are having problems. that's bull... the newest drivers are far better with the newer games... they just perform terrible with older games like Skyrim, mainly with d3d9.dll files. DirectX9 is old, support will become less and less of a priority. Compared drivers 314.22 and 320.18 not too long ago in metro LL and I got 7% improvement in FPS, that is quite a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesshin20 Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 On 7/20/2013 at 1:20 PM, prod80 said: NVidia gtx7xx series is not compatible with ENB due to drivers, which NVidia has not sorted out yet.AMD in general has issues with ENB You don't need a beast CPU for gaming.... Core i5 is fast enough, almost any model (my 2nd gen i5 2500K runs on 15% tops with Skyrim...............)You don't need over 3GB of VRAM for Skyrim but I do suggest you get a 3 or 4GB model because of other games and soon to be released games.You can probably grab a GTX670 or 680 real cheap now, and the GTX680 has the exact same chip as the GTX770.No matter what you do, get a 64bit OS, preferably Win7 and 8GB RAM with decent speed (1600 Mhz+) I bought a 770 for my x-girlfriend and she is playing skyrim with Kountervibe ENB on it and it works like a charm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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