Will this gaming pc build run Skyrmi well?

[daniel844]

Hi,

 

I'm getting ready to build a gaming pc and one of the "Musts" is to be able to run skyrim with an intensive enb (probably realvision) and lots of mods.

 

Will this build be able to run Skyirm preferably on ultra setting, on 1920x1080 resolution with intensive mods?

 

CPU-Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor

RAM-G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB)

Graphics Card-Geforce MSI R9 390

SSD-Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB

Overclocking Fan-CM Hyper 212X

Motherboard-Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI ATX LGA1150 Motherboard

HDD-Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB

Case-Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case

DVD Drive- Black SATA 24X DVD Burner

PSU-SeaSonic 620W 80+ Bronze Certified

Thanks

[ironbender800]

yes that will do very well. just keep in mind even with really good hardware skyrim is still bound by engine limitations.

[Novem99]

Yes it will. I have the same CPU, 16GB RAM (but that doesn't matter) and an overclocked R9 290. I am using almost every 2k/4k mod that is available here with True Vision ENB and the game runs very well although I am not quite sure if you will get constantly 60fps when using Realvision or an even higher demanding ENB.

[daniel844]

Thanks for the replies everybody

I'll start collecting parts then.

[jones177]

Yes & no.

 

Open world games are about fetching data. If you are putting a modded Skyrim on a SSD, great. If you are putting it on the WD blue, not so great.

 

I recommend going with a Black. The quickest tested Black is the WD 4tb. The newer 6tb is said to be 30% faster. These HDs are designed to read over 1mb of data fast. Most budget HDs are designed to read small amounts fast.

 

To avoid I/0 stutter I would go Black.

 

Also Windows checking disks can slow things down. It is better to have one large SSD or one large HD. The only other solution I know of is raid.

 

Most people won't mod to the point where any of this matters. But my Data folder is over 60gb. My largest load ins according to Skyrim Performance Monitor are 1.7gbs. I will keep Skyrim on fast media.

 

Later

[TheSpaceShuttleChallenger]

As Jones177 said, fast hard drives are important in games that require a lot of data loading. I have an extremely nice graphics-oriented system but I still notice a vast drop in performance (and specifically load-related issues, like missing textures, slow load screens, ctds while loading) when I run off my HDD rather than my SSD.

 

Beyond that, my guess is your ceiling is going to be the game's engine itself. There's a point where no amount of good computer is going to allow you to run more/bigger mods than you already run, which is why it's still important to do your research and design your mod list and load order carefully. Don't do that thing I did where you kill your game with mod overload just because your system can take it.

[ironbender800]

I run skyrim off an SSD and i get super fast loading times. Doesnt make a difference in regards to stutter tho.

[daniel844]

I'll be installing Skyrim to my SSD so i can get faster loading time anyway so that shouldn't be a problem right?

[ironbender800]

Installing to an SSD is definitely recommended.

[SMB92]

And that would explain why my disk i/o is next to nothing in hours long sessions. Getting an SSD is great advice, but most pauses you see in game now are gonna be from the renderer. If you get your memory setting right and you have plenty of VRAM and RAM, you can load most of it in and avoid much disk activity. 4GB VRAM is plenty. SLi and xfire is pointless for this game, unless you have rather low end gpus.

 

Edit - dump more money into the CPU department, thats where you will find the bottleneck. 390 should handle ENB and large texpacks well enough, but the renderer in this game is limited to raw mhz, grab a 4790k and bump it up to 4.7ghz. If you are getting DDR3 just get a low latency 2133 kit, anything over is diminishing return and unnecessary pressure on IMC of CPU, and can hurt your overclock.