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PC for skyrim and playing with mods

  • Drakon
    • 159 posts
     
    February 10, 2013 3:04 PM EST

    Hello I am need of some help could  I wanted to buy a new pc so i could play skyrim with mods Because I see all these cool armors, followers, and other awesome features that pc users have that I cannot do on my xbox so I was wondering if anyone could suggest a compuer that could be used for that purpose thank you

  • Kyrielle Atrinati
    • 291 posts
     
    February 10, 2013 3:06 PM EST

    What is your budget?

  • Drakon
    • 159 posts
     
    February 10, 2013 3:10 PM EST

    my maxium is about 200 or 300 bucks and I cant build one

  • Dieter
    • 952 posts
     
    February 10, 2013 3:14 PM EST
    Any regular PC can run PC games fine for a few years, if you want to play at maximum framerate for many years with the same PC it's gonna cost you though, then you would need like an Nvidia GTX 690 or something and a good CPU as well even though that's a bit less important. Skyrim mods are largely textures mods so make sure the graphics card has atleast 1024 MB Vram.
  • Dragon
    • 57 posts
     
    February 10, 2013 3:19 PM EST
    This post reminds me how old my pc is, read approaching 6 years with it now, I'd build one but I'm on an extremely tight budget
  • Dieter
    • 952 posts
     
    February 10, 2013 3:19 PM EST
    I'm sorry, that won't get you even close to a gaming PC.
  • Kyrielle Atrinati
    • 291 posts
     
    February 10, 2013 3:28 PM EST

    There's not a whole lot you can do with that.  I mean, you could probably get a very basic computer, but it would basically be a glorified word processor.  

    You'd do better for an okay/low-end gaming PC if you had $500-800 in your budget.

  • Drakon
    • 159 posts
     
    February 10, 2013 3:49 PM EST

    ok can a regular pc handle mods and regular skyrim graphics 

  • Nikolaj Poulsen
    • 88 posts
     
    February 10, 2013 3:59 PM EST

    Many mods can be installed without any impact on perfomance, I even believe there are a few optimization mods out there to increase perfomance.