Will this Build run Skyrim on Ultra with Mods?
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ingtar33
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considering a pc with 1/4 of that budget can run skyrim on ultra with a lot of mods... i'd say sure. that pc will do it. serious overkill but it can do it.
btw: $400 for a 1080p/144hz and 23" monitor is seriously poor pricing. i hope that monitor has vsync to explain that incredibly poor pricing.
EDIT: oh, i see it's a 3d monitor... seems sorta pricey but... whatever.
btw: $400 for a 1080p/144hz and 23" monitor is seriously poor pricing. i hope that monitor has vsync to explain that incredibly poor pricing.
EDIT: oh, i see it's a 3d monitor... seems sorta pricey but... whatever.
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Plan to do a lot more, just making sure the basics are covered. And I'm talking 100-200+mods. Someone on the forums said that AMD (GPU) would be better for Skyrim because of its "brute force". I know it is CPU dependent for the most part but that's what they said. So I shouldn't have any problems whatsoever?
ingtar33
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for one i wouldn't spend $100 on a 750W evga power supply... at that price you can get a seasonic made psu from XFX or Antec... or Corsair... heck you probably could get a Seasonic for that price. EVGA makes solid psus... but there is a big difference from a "good" EVGA and a "Great" seasonic.
I probably wouldn't spend 400 on a 3d 23" monitor
I probably wouldn't bother with a ROG motherboard... not unless you're buying it for looks or the onboard sound...
unless you've used windows 8, i wouldn't suggest windows 8 over windows 7
I definitely wouldn't get an Asus direct CUII version of the 780ti... that particular card is known to be one of the worst versions out there.
$200 for 16gb of ddr1866 ram? no... that's way over priced...
have you put your hands on the corsair c70 case? i have... i would buy it on sale for $70... that's a good deal. i would not pay full listed price for it. it's nice and overpriced usually.
if your goal is skyrim, i'd go with an i5 over the i7
I have an AMD 8 core. I love this chip for what i use it for. I would take this chip over an i5 for what i use it for. But i would NOT take this chip over an intel (anything) for skyrim. That was singularly poor advice. Skyrim is encoded in x87... an archaic encoding that was discontinued in '96, AMD cpus do not support that code, and as a result they do not do well with skyrim. Intel cpus support that encoding language.
The amd recommendation was for a gpu not a cpu
Also I would recommend an amd gpu for the vram in skyrim, a 290x will serve you well with similar perf and 1gb more vram, or if you can shave cash from the rest of the build ( easy enough to do in this case) you could get a 295x2 beast
Also I agree with most of ingtar33's recommendations.
Skyrim doesn't need 16gb of ram, it can only (with mods) address 4gb
Case is a personal choice, but I would recommend a haf series case.
Also I would recommend an amd gpu for the vram in skyrim, a 290x will serve you well with similar perf and 1gb more vram, or if you can shave cash from the rest of the build ( easy enough to do in this case) you could get a 295x2 beast
Also I agree with most of ingtar33's recommendations.
Skyrim doesn't need 16gb of ram, it can only (with mods) address 4gb
Case is a personal choice, but I would recommend a haf series case.
swifty_morgan
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wouldn't touch some of it/maybe most...didn't look at it again ........... looks like somebody ( without reservations or forethought ) sat down and selected all the stuff with the highest price tag and/or the best reviews and said AHH, this should be good.................. I also wouldn't waste that much money on a computer unless it was for work and my lively hood depended on it.......... and even then I would reconsider.
ingtar33
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Skyrim is almost completely CPU bound... even mid level gpus will max it at most resolutions. I remember a review that showed pretty definitively, even with heavily modded skyrim a 1gb gpu at the r7-265 level was pretty much all you needed. granted yo uwant to play it in ultra so bumping it all up to r9-270x/gtx 760 level will probably be more then enough... if you want to play it in 3d or something (judging by that monitor) you'll probably need to step it up to a gtx 780...
swifty_morgan
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Its not really a case of "how many mods" Its dependent on what the mods are.
You would be much better off asking this on a forum about Skyrim mods to be honest, but a 780 Ti would be enough to be honest, especially if you are running at 1080p
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Even with the AMD cards having better compatibility with the coding in Skyirm, why are some saying that the 780ti won't be enough? And I should have been more clear about the mods. I won't be having 200+ graphical/resolution/HD type mods to be sure. (are there even that many) I not really sure on the number, but I would doubt I would be using (let alone needing) a lot of them. The majority of the mods would be adding to the game. IE: SkyUI etc, monster mods, other add-ons basically. Not sure on the names as I'm not at home at the moment. What forum would work best?
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