StratGuy Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 Hi guys, My system is struggling to play Skyrim maxxed and I want to upgrade it over time by spending about £200 a month. I've posted my specs below. Please can you recommend the order in which I should upgrade and some reccomendations? I'm not really a techie and will be getting a local guy to do the work. Please bear in mind I'm in the UK so what may be cheap in the USA may be very expensive in Ireland :) Thanks! Specs are - Processor Intel® Core i7 CPU 930 @ 2.80GHz 7.5 5.9 Memory (RAM) 6.00 GB 7.5 Graphics ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series 7.7 Windows 7 Home Premium System -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Manufacturer Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Model X58A-UD3R Total amount of system memory 6.00 GB RAM System type 64-bit operating system Number of processor cores 4 Storage -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total size of hard disk(s) 931 GB Graphics -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Display adapter type ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series Dedicated graphics memory 1024 MB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xlcr Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 (edited) @StratGuy, i think most people would advise you your ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series 7.7 w/1GB VRAMwould be the first item to upgrade; maybe, followed by a fast mechanical or solid state drive (SSD).1GB VRAM may be thrashing memory (2GB would be better) if you're truly running maxxed out with lots of HD textures at high resolution.I think the recommended Skyrim setting for the 5800 is 'high' not 'ultra'; but, not sure about this. Edited July 13, 2012 by xlcr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StratGuy Posted July 13, 2012 Author Share Posted July 13, 2012 Hi there thanks for the reply! Now that work's done for the day I'll do some R&D on the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsarian Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 Since your willing to spend that amount per month, then I would suggest first buying a really good Radeon card. A good HD 6850 from XFX is right around 200 I think, but then again I'm going my USD and not Euros, so yeah. What ever that amount in dollars translate to in Euros. But I would spend that chunk of money per month on one part each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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