How well will skyrim run on my pc?

[Lorithasz]

This is my setup

Memory: 8192mb of Ram Direct x 11

Processor: Intel i5-3570k CPU @ 3.40 ghz (4 CPUs), ~3.4GHz

OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601)

Video Card: AMD Diamond Radeon HD 7850 2gb

My monitor is 1980x1020

Any help from a pro?

 

[zdbc13]

Pretty darn good! This review has close to your system specs and shows skyrim:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-650-ti-benchmark-gk106,3318-4.html

 

[bigshootr8]

Agreed pretty well I would say. Obviously with mods you will be a little short on memory however for moderate modding I would say you would be just fine. And AMD cards historically have performed better with Skyrim.

 

[Lorithasz]

I'm not gonna use mods 😛, so basically it'll stay capped at max settings or near it? Because I know on xbox 360, the fps limit is 30.

 

[bigshootr8]

Well you should exceed the 30 FPS limit most certainly. I would say you will have ease getting there. This is from a year ago drivers have updated since then and the performance I'm sure have increased. http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2012/03/05/amd-radeon-hd-7850-2gb/6

 

[Lorithasz]

Oooooooh 60ish fps, I like that. I'm probably gonna put Skyrim on my 1000mb hard drive because WoW is already installed on my SSD. I Just want it to run better than the xbox, cause that system gets rather lame. That's also with Direct X 9 o:

 

[mouse24]

Yeah you should be maxing it out at 60fps no problem. I do fine on maxed settings excluding aa/af and view distance @ somewhere hovering around 50fps.

With a that texturepack combiner mod (using the "lite" versions of the mods) I am around 30fps, I do need to turn down some settings like view distance, I think I have it set to 12. Been a while since I played so.

Heres my specs (your cpu is vastly superior)
Athlon 2 x3
6870 1gb
4gb ddr2
etc, etc, etc.

 

[bigshootr8]

Yea welcome to PC gaming man put your legacy console away. XBOX 360 is 8 years old man 😛 Yea World of Warcraft will do quite well with a SSD more snappy performance most assuredly. And yea Skyrim should be just fine on your Terabyte hard drive.

 

[Lorithasz]

Thanks guys! Really appreciate it

 

[vmem]

without modding you'll be running skyrim at max or near max with no problems.

with modding... well, you'd have to be really pushing it, but I did manage to almost break my 7970 with a heavily modded skyrim recently 😛 (P.S. I did it just to see if it's possible, a lot of the extra shading, textures etc honestly doens't make a big difference)