New to PC gaming, how good is my graphics card?

[KingOfNutella]

I'm new to PC gaming and the nexus, is my graphics card good for skyrim? Will it be able to run max? I have an AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB

[hector530]

Yes

[Dubnoman]

I'm new to PC gaming and the nexus, is my graphics card good for skyrim? Will it be able to run max? I have an AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB

 

 

Your GPU is absolutely one of the best available for purchase right now. What do you have for RAM and a CPU?

 

Also, Radeon HD 7000 cards are having some graphics drivers issues with Skyrim right now. Make sure to update your graphics drivers to this beta. Reportedly, it works out the issues. http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst132BetaDriver.aspx

[KingOfNutella]

I'm new to PC gaming and the nexus, is my graphics card good for skyrim? Will it be able to run max? I have an AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB

 

 

Your GPU is absolutely one of the best available for purchase right now. What do you have for RAM and a CPU?

 

Also, Radeon HD 7000 cards are having some graphics drivers issues with Skyrim right now. Make sure to update your graphics drivers to this beta. Reportedly, it works out the issues. http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst132BetaDriver.aspx

 

Thank a lot, will do. CPU- AMD FX-8350 4.00 GHz Eight-Core AM3+ CPU 8MB L2 Cache RAM- 32GB (8GBx4) DDR3/1600MHz Dual Channel Memory

Is that good? I know the RAM is, but I dont know about the CPU

Edited February 1, 2013 by KingOfNutella

[Dubnoman]

I'm new to PC gaming and the nexus, is my graphics card good for skyrim? Will it be able to run max? I have an AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB

 

 

Your GPU is absolutely one of the best available for purchase right now. What do you have for RAM and a CPU?

 

Also, Radeon HD 7000 cards are having some graphics drivers issues with Skyrim right now. Make sure to update your graphics drivers to this beta. Reportedly, it works out the issues. http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst132BetaDriver.aspx

 

Thank a lot, will do. CPU- AMD FX-8350 4.00 GHz Eight-Core AM3+ CPU 8MB L2 Cache RAM- 32GB (8GBx4) DDR3/1600MHz Dual Channel Memory

Is that good? I know the RAM is, but I dont know about the CPU

 

The RAM will be underutilized. It is really 32 GB of RAM? Anyway, that kind of RAM isn't needed for most things. It isn't needed for PC gaming. I have a computer with 8 GB of RAM. I got my computer last fall and was thinking of getting 16 GB of RAM, but people told me that it just isn't needed for PC gaming and general PC use. No games use 8 GB of RAM, I believe. Skyrim only utilizes 4 GB of RAM.

 

About your CPU, it'll do great with Skyrim. It is more than you need to run it at max. Certain Intel CPUs are the best on the market, but your CPU has 4 GHz per core, so it'll run Skyrim like a champ. It seems like that AMD CPU is a really good AMD CPU. Skyrim will only utilize 4 cores, but some day not too long from now games will start to utilize even more cores, I'm sure.

 

Your specs will have your computer going strong for 2 or so years, and you could stretch the usage of your computer for a good number of years. You could stretch those specs for PC gaming for, let's say, 4 years, and 4 years later PC gaming on it would probably be okay. What you wanna do if you really get into PC gaming is that you'll want to do a big upgrade about every 2 to 3 years, or upgrade certain parts here and there. Your PC is in the top of the line range, though.

 

Your PC will run Skyrim great, for sure. All settings as high as can be and at 60 fps. You could run enbs, too, which enhance the graphical quality. What you'll wanna do is monitor the temps of your components while playing. Get HWMonitor and open the program and run it while you play PC games. Find out what are the safe temperatures for your GPU and CPU, as well, so that you know what numbers to look out for. http://download.cnet.com/HWMonitor/3000-2094_4-10793486.html?tag=mncol;1

 

Get Fraps. It'll show your frames per second. You don't have to use fraps every time you play, of course. You just run it while playing PC games to see what your fps is like, so you don't gotta use it every time you play. You can use it when you use graphical enhancement mods, too. http://www.fraps.com/

Edited February 1, 2013 by Dubnoman

[KingOfNutella]

I'm new to PC gaming and the nexus, is my graphics card good for skyrim? Will it be able to run max? I have an AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB

 

 

Your GPU is absolutely one of the best available for purchase right now. What do you have for RAM and a CPU?

 

Also, Radeon HD 7000 cards are having some graphics drivers issues with Skyrim right now. Make sure to update your graphics drivers to this beta. Reportedly, it works out the issues. http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst132BetaDriver.aspx

 

Thank a lot, will do. CPU- AMD FX-8350 4.00 GHz Eight-Core AM3+ CPU 8MB L2 Cache RAM- 32GB (8GBx4) DDR3/1600MHz Dual Channel Memory

Is that good? I know the RAM is, but I dont know about the CPU

 

The RAM will be underutilized. It is really 32 GB of RAM? Anyway, that kind of RAM isn't needed for most things. It isn't needed for PC gaming. I have a computer with 8 GB of RAM. I got my computer last fall and was thinking of getting 16 GB of RAM, but people told me that it just isn't needed for PC gaming and general PC use. No games use 8 GB of RAM, I believe. Skyrim only utilizes 4 GB of RAM.

 

About your CPU, it'll do great with Skyrim. It is more than you need to run it at max. Certain Intel CPUs are the best on the market, but your CPU has 4 GHz per core, so it'll run Skyrim like a champ. It seems like that AMD CPU is a really good AMD CPU. Skyrim will only utilize 4 cores, but some day not too long from now games will start to utilize even more cores, I'm sure.

 

Your specs will have your computer going strong for 2 or so years, and you could stretch the usage of your computer for a good number of years. You could stretch those specs for PC gaming for, let's say, 4 years, and 4 years later PC gaming on it would probably be okay. What you wanna do if you really get into PC gaming is that you'll want to do a big upgrade about every 2 to 3 years, or upgrade certain parts here and there. Your PC is in the top of the line range, though.

 

Your PC will run Skyrim great, for sure. All settings as high as can be and at 60 fps. You could run enbs, too, which enhance the graphical quality. What you'll wanna do is monitor the temps of your components while playing. Get HWMonitor and open the program and run it while you play PC games. Find out what are the safe temperatures for your GPU and CPU, as well, so that you know what numbers to look out for. http://download.cnet.com/HWMonitor/3000-2094_4-10793486.html?tag=mncol;1

 

Get Fraps. It'll show your frames per second. You don't have to use fraps every time you play, of course. You just run it while playing PC games to see what your fps is like, so you don't gotta use it every time you play. You can use it when you use graphical enhancement mods, too. http://www.fraps.com/

 

Yup, its really 32GB of RAM. Is Fraps also a recording software? I thought that was what Fraps is, im probably wrong then. My computer hasn't come, so I cant test anything yet. It should come soon though. It has this item with it - NZXT Sentry LX Aluminum High Performance Fan Control, Clock, & Temperature Display - (copied and pasted from my computers specs) would that serve the same purpose as HWMonitor? Cant wait to start gaming. Thanks for you're help! EDIT- went to fraps.com. I see the recording option now sorry haha

Edited February 1, 2013 by KingOfNutella