Gaming Rig for Skyrim/Skywind

[OSG1]

Hi,

 

I am a console gamer and after hearing the news of the development of Skywind I thought that I need a slice of the action. I haven't really been a PC gamer since Morrowind, years ago and I appear to be in the darkage with what the Specs mean.

 

I am looking to play this at top end graphics, frame rate and modded to the max etc and possibly looking to create some mods myself.

 

Can any let me know a good computer in the range of £1000 - £1500 or what I should be looking for?

 

I am genuinely clueless on this!

 

Thanks in advance

[OSG1]

Intel Core i5 3570K IVY Bridge Overclocked Up To 4.40GHz Per Core Processor

Quiet Xigmatek Gaia 120mm Fan

Asus P8Z77-V LX2, 4xDIMM, Max. 32GB, ATX (USB 3.0, SATA 3.0) Motherboard

16GB (4 x 4GB) Corsair 1600MHz DDR3 Ram

New - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB PCI Express Graphics Card

Silent 120GB Ultrafast Solid State Drive SATA III Hard Drive

1000GB SATA III Hard Drive

Is this any good?

[Azndragon]

<p><p>Where are you from? I'm going to link you parts from an Australian retailer, meaning that you could more than likely save 15% from wherever you are provided you aren't from Australia, and reinvest it into the machine to exceed the specifications which I provide you at around about the same price.</p><br />

<p>&nbsp;</p><br />

<p><a href="<a href="http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=138_1183&amp;products_id=19867">http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=138_1183&amp;products_id=19867</a>">Asrock Z77 Extreme 4 - $119</a> | Great motherboard, especially for this price. Has everything you could want for a build in this price range.<br /><br />

<a href="<a href="http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=187_346_1184&amp;products_id=20893">http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=187_346_1184&amp;products_id=20893</a>">Intel Core i5 3570 - $214</a> | I'm assuming you won't be overclocking as you're not an enthusiast, by the time you'll need the performance from overclocking, this CPU will be void anyway.</p><br />

<p><a href="<a href="http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=207_23&amp;products_id=18670">http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=207_23&amp;products_id=18670</a>">Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo - $35</a> | The best CPU cooler in this price range. I have it myself, and it's amazing, though I have a fan on each side of the heatsink.<br /><br />

<a href="<a href="http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=193_1311&amp;products_id=22337">http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=193_1311&amp;products_id=22337</a>">Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 Vapor-X - $339</a> | The Vapor-X 7950 is the GHz edition, in some games it's on par with the standard 7970 and can overclock very well. Some people achieve more performance OC'ing their 7950s than their 7970s.</p><br />

<p><a href="<a href="http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=210_902_1370&amp;products_id=22102">http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=210_902_1370&amp;products_id=22102</a>">Samsung 840 Pro 128GB SSD - $139</a> | The 128GB version has far faster write speeds than the 120GB. Use this as your boot drive, SSDs are much faster and reliable than Hard drives.<br /><br />

<a href="<a href="http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=210_344&amp;products_id=19692">http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=210_344&amp;products_id=19692</a>">Seagate Barracuda 3TB - $139</a> | I have the 2TB Barracuda in 2 systems. They are decent and have so far been reliable, no trouble with them so far.</p><br />

<p><a href="<a href="http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=15_226&amp;products_id=16142">http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=15_226&amp;products_id=16142</a>">Antec High Current Gamer 750w - $139</a> | You could probably get away with 650w or even 550w, but 750w will give you plenty of headroom while still performing efficiently.</p><br />

<p><a href="<a href="http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=25_961&amp;products_id=16884">http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=25_961&amp;products_id=16884</a>">Corsair Obsidian 650D - $195</a> | I have this case in my main gaming rig, it is SOLID, and absolutely amazing while maintaing great airflow. Definitely recommend it, but you should choose whatever case you like.<br /><br />

<a href="<a href="http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=658_667&amp;products_id=22522">http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=658_667&amp;products_id=22522</a>">LG 24x DVD Drive - $25</a> | Only in the cases where you purchase the game on CD from a store or something, would recommend purchasing from Steam or downloading instead (e.g. DL WoW from Blizzard rather than buy the disc from EB, or gamestop or whatever they call themselves over there), as it's cheaper, faster and means less clutter (I'm a hypocrite here, I have a LOT of retail CDs because I like the box art <img alt=" :biggrin:" class="bbc_emoticon" src="<a href="http://forums.nexusmods.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/biggrin.gif">http://forums.nexusmods.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/biggrin.gif</a>" title=" :biggrin:" />, only reason)</p><br />

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Total <em><span style="font-size:12px;">(Not including OS, and other computer peripherals)</span></em> - $1319</p><br />

<p><br /><br />

Do you want to include Windows 7 in the pricing? And would you like me to recommend you other peripherals such as a good mouse, mousepad, keyboard, monitor and speakers?<br /><br />

If you need any further assistance, feel free to inbox me (don't know if I'll check though), reply here, or email me (I'll PM you my email if you want help that way).</p></p>

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Edited May 20, 2013 by Azndragon

[blitzen]

<p>Get a video card with at least 3 GB of VRAM. I was having crashes and lockups due to 2.5 GB of VRAM filling up, and I'm only running at 1600x900 resolution. I've had to downgrade some textures for trees and mountains to drop VRAM usage, and I think it's ok now. I'm looking at purchasing a new card with 4 GB in a few months. I have a nvidia GTX 570, which is adequate. I would recommend something more powerful though. At least a 670 with 4 GB of VRAM or the equivalent ATI card.</p> Edited May 20, 2013 by blitzen

[aciits]

GTX780 is soon to come out, I would definitely take that as it will cover both Skyrim and the newest games for quite some time.

[imperistan]

Yes, I would wait for the 780 if you're looking to max the game. It'll be the best, most affordable single card option you'll be able to get.

 

Or if cost is no object just drop some money on a Titan.

[459pm]

-snip-

Edited June 8, 2013 by 459pm

[thebeast505]

I got the gtx 780, great card. Never go below 40 excep in city's rarely but that's because I have the open cities mod

[KillerSkark1978]

My System

 

Intel i-5 3570K on a Z77 Chipset, using that Speed Boost clocking feature to clock from 3.4 to 3.8 per core on the fly when needed, and with 32GB mSATA SSD running SRT

 

16GB DDR3 Corsair Vengeance RAM, and its the lower voltage flavour at 1.35v rarther than 1.5v for extra clocking leg room

 

Radeon HD7850 Card, looking to go X-fire soon hope maybe next payday.

 

4x Hard Drives

 

1x 2TB (SATA 2) used for media Storage, I back up all my steam games on there just copy them over to my Steam library when I want them.

 

1x 1TB (SATA 2) Used for just Spare Storage and as a download target, Ran out of room when this was my Media Storage Drive so got the 2TB drive but dont yet exceed 2TB of media data

 

1x 500GB (SATA 3) My C Drive, OS, Software,, active Steam Library on there.

 

1x 60GB (SATA 3 SSD) my Latest Edition to my system only purchased last weekend, this is a dedicated Games Drive, active steam library on there, only game on there to date is Skyrim,, NMM Aslo fully set up running from this drive.

 

 

I boycotted Nvidia, did you guys hear about that Driver update they dished out around a year back, I was running a 9800 GTX at the time, And was hit by the driver update that turned all the fans off on the cards cooling system, was a f-up on there part effected a lot of peoples card on a number of different models, there Forums where swarmed with people who blew there card thanks to that driver F-up, I was one of them.

 

The G-CArd Burn out was the final stick that pushed me over to AMD, since not long before that I was also on the now retired and no longer supported Nvidia N-force Chipset which they chose to abandon leaving users with System Crash bugs as the Windows update gen rolled on.

Edited June 10, 2013 by KillerSkark1978

[ChrisIhao]

 

Intel Core i5 3570K IVY Bridge Overclocked Up To 4.40GHz Per Core Processor

Quiet Xigmatek Gaia 120mm Fan

Asus P8Z77-V LX2, 4xDIMM, Max. 32GB, ATX (USB 3.0, SATA 3.0) Motherboard

16GB (4 x 4GB) Corsair 1600MHz DDR3 Ram

New - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB PCI Express Graphics Card

Silent 120GB Ultrafast Solid State Drive SATA III Hard Drive

1000GB SATA III Hard Drive

Is this any good?

 

Is that a rethorical question? Yes, Its a GREAT setup, and you should be happy as a crazy frog with your performance in Skyrim!

 

I'd rather get a GTX 770 for the most bang for the buck though. I'm running two of these babies in SLi right now, and while a bit overkill atm I havent regretted a second since getting them. Running only one card was more than perfectly fine to be honest. You just cant select those 32x AA settings :wink:

 

Oh, and one last thing. That 120 GB solid state disk you mention. Is that the system disk? In that case I'd add a bit more space as it tends to fill up (you know, the way Windows drives do). Also consider getting a 2 TB disk instead of 1 TB, as its possible to find perfectly well priced SATA drives with those specs, and these also fill up eventually.

 

Just my three cents.

 

 

 

I boycotted Nvidia, did you guys hear about that Driver update they dished out around a year back, I was running a 9800 GTX at the time, And was hit by the driver update that turned all the fans off on the cards cooling system, was a f-up on there part effected a lot of peoples card on a number of different models, there Forums where swarmed with people who blew there card thanks to that driver F-up, I was one of them.

 

The G-CArd Burn out was the final stick that pushed me over to AMD, since not long before that I was also on the now retired and no longer supported Nvidia N-force Chipset which they chose to abandon leaving users with System Crash bugs as the Windows update gen rolled on.

 

Everybody makes mistakes, and I'd say that AMD has messed up more than once through the years as well. I love my Nvidias and have had no problems with these whatsoever the last few years. Up to you however. I like both, as long as they do what they are supposed to do.