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disolitude on 20 September 2012
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pezus said:
disolitude said:
pezus said:
disolitude said:

I am going to take this challenge on and test Skyrim on a Phenom X4 and i5 with a GTX 670. 

Cool. Make sure to come back and report your findings!


I just noticed something in that Toms Hardware review of Skyrim for CPU requirements... 

"This game clearly relies on CPU power, and you need a Sandy Bridge-based Core i3 at 3 GHz or a Phenom II at 3.5 GHz to provide a minimum 30 FPS. Bear in mind that we're using the ultra detail setting here, and processing requirements drop significantly as you start stepping back. So, you can make due with a less potent chip when you dial in detail options appropriately."

Well yeah, lowering settings to high from ultra should make this run 60fps+ on most CPU platforms. Also I'm sure using Ultra detail on 3 monitors will again hit my GPU bottleneck before the CPU.

So I think my point stands. :)

Ultra or nothing!!

haha...sure, but try and do a Pepsi challenge with graphical settings. Take Crysis 2 for example and have someone change it from ultra to high and see if you can tell the difference. You may be surprised at what you find.