grimstride Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 (edited) Hey guys . im gonna buy a new pc and my question is if it would be better to run with 4gb ram and a 2gb GPU ddr5 or 8gb ram and 1 gb GPU ddr5? I hope i can run some lightweight graphics mods .Which one will impact my performance more(for skyrim)? The price was almost identical since i get more of a discount on my video card and im a very tight budget. I think it would be best to go with the better vedeo card but what do you think? Edited October 6, 2014 by grimstride Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkasha Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Because it's a lot cheaper to upgrade regular RAM later on: Go for the 2GB video card. Which GPUs are you looking at though? The RAM is only a small part of the GPU, you can have 4GB-VRAM on your GPU and it can still be slow as hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grimstride Posted October 6, 2014 Author Share Posted October 6, 2014 (edited) the gpu is AMD Radeon R7 260Χ 2GB GDDR5 or its 1gb version Edited October 6, 2014 by grimstride Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkasha Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 That's quite an old card, what price would you be paying for it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeddBate Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 While I agree that the larger GPU is the better choice, you also need a half-decent processor. Four cores operating at about 3.2GHz or better would be ideal. You can get by with a dual-core at 2.6 -but that would be the absolute minimum you should have. Anything that low means that your CPU will be the bottleneck in data throughput. Fortunately, quad-core chips (and their respective mobos) can be had at a reasonable price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grimstride Posted October 6, 2014 Author Share Posted October 6, 2014 (edited) around 110-120 dollars for the GPU It has Amd fx-6300 cpu (six core , 3.5ghz) , R7 260x 2gb gpu , 4 gb ram Edited October 6, 2014 by grimstride Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkasha Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Seems like a fair price, go for the GPU and upgrade your RAM when you got the money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grimstride Posted October 6, 2014 Author Share Posted October 6, 2014 Thank you for the quick responses. Ill go with the gpu and add more ram later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roguespear Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 I would not go lower than the 280 and you would benefit greatly from the 290x series, the poster above is right get 4 cores or more and 4 gigs of ram to start will be ok as Skyrim won't use more than 3 at the most the video card is always the key to smooth Skyrim performance and get 3 gigs of Vram if possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camaro_69_327 Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 I would not go lower than the 280 and you would benefit greatly from the 290x series, the poster above is right get 4 cores or more and 4 gigs of ram to start will be ok as Skyrim won't use more than 3 at the most the video card is always the key to smooth Skyrim performance and get 3 gigs of Vram if possible.Skyrim actively using 8 threads of a 4 core CPU Setting Skyrim up properly is Key. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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