New PC and for gaming advice

[Thor.]

If only i could show some benchmark numbers, i have been pushing some freaking insane numbers in Skyrim with a gtx780 ti.

 

A own a amd 8350 and its doing a fine job if you ask me.

[JimboUK]

It leaks VRAM, but capping it out has negligible effect on performance, as has been demonstrated (only a 3% loss with 2GB card versus 3.5GB VRAM use on 4GB card). It can't cap out RAM because the engine's 32-bit.

Not that you could on R9 290 anyway.

 

CPU performance and specifically performance of the first CPU core that ~75% of the skyrim engine is running on is what determines, more than anything else, the minimum sustained framerate in this game.

 

And i7 is pointless for Skyrim, i5 runs about 1% behind it at the same clock rate.

 

It's New Vegas where VRAM is massively important, the game literally crashes when it runs out of it.