drhowellsr Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 I am looking to buy the following to play Skyrim. Do you think I can get ULTRA running with this setup? Eclipse i7 Desktop • Intel I7-2600 3.4G 8MB• 8GB DDR3 1333MHz Ram• 500GB SATA Hard Drive• Win 7 Pro 64bit• Geforce GT 430 1GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cougar888 Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Should be fine, although if you start adding HD mods and enb profiles then you may struggle on ultra.My setup is: i5-2500k oc'd 4.3gb8gb ddr3Hybrid HDDWin7 64bit UltimateGeforce GTX480 1536mb I have Skyrim on Ultra, 50ish mods running and enb profile and Skyrim runs fine although it does slow down in dense forest areas sometimes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drhowellsr Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 Thanks for the quick reply. I wanted a second opinion before buying, thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onson Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 (edited) I have i7-920 2 GTX 280 sliI run ultra with some slow down in Markarth, but overall performs very well so you should be good. Of course when all the good texture mods come out who knows. The game looks phenomenal the way it is now though. Except for some furniture, but those retextures are already out. I just remembered I was running ultra with just one card before the Nvidia driver update for sli so youre definitely good Edited January 17, 2012 by onson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gundog48 Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 I'd say go for an i5 2500K and a better graphics card such as a 6950, would be a far better balance for gaming! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eltucu Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 I am looking to buy the following to play Skyrim. Do you think I can get ULTRA running with this setup? Eclipse i7 Desktop • Intel I7-2600 3.4G 8MB• 8GB DDR3 1333MHz Ram• 500GB SATA Hard Drive• Win 7 Pro 64bit• Geforce GT 430 1GBLol, no one even read the specs. No way with that graphics card. GTX 430 is way too weak. Go from HD6870/GTX 560 upwards. If your budget is getting short, scrap the i7 2600, buy a i5 2500 and get a GTX560 Ti or something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onson Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Damn I swore that said GTX 480! :wallbash: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarnz Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 I hope you got the 2600k. I got mine and just did the auto-overclock in the bios and it runs at 4.4 ghz no problem at all.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted3362774User Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 (edited) I would upg the gfx and worry less about the rest I run on ultra with lots of mods and this is my setup: Intel Core 2 Quad Core Q6600 2.4GHz6gb DDR2 800MHz single channel500gb HD 7200rpmRadeon 6970 2GB GDDR5 runs great. Sometimes drop below 30fps in some parts of markarth and the middle area of riften, otherwise im > 40 Other than the brand new gfx card, my setup is over 4 years old and runs skyrim near perfectly. I did have some issues before, but once TESTV Acceleration layer // SkyBoost came out, it cleared up the areas where my old ass CPU was being the bottleneck Edited January 18, 2012 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drhowellsr Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 Doh.My card is the GeForce GTS450 1GB Graphics Card , not the other one listed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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