dashogun
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My custom build from many years ago has been serving me well but now I am starting to feel that it is meeting its end. I've replaced the video card about a year ago, however Skyrim still shows poor framerates in high demanding scenes (such as snowy weather). I have the settings on high at a 1920x1200 resolution monitor.
Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66GHz
G.skill 2GB DDR2 1066
Gigabyte P35-DS3R motherboard
One Radeon 6950 2GB
Corsair 520watt
Seagate 1TB 7200rpm SATA hard drive
Windows 7 32-bit
Would I see major changes if I upgrade the ram to 4GB and switch to a 64-bit operating system? 8GB of ram nowadays at 1600MHz is affordable nowadays so I can go as high as that if needed. Or is the CPU the main bottleneck? I was looking at the i5-2500k as a worthy replacement.
*edit: I also have been reading around that AMD's cards have been underperforming on Skyrim and we will have to wait on an update driver. Not sure if this is true.
Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66GHz
G.skill 2GB DDR2 1066
Gigabyte P35-DS3R motherboard
One Radeon 6950 2GB
Corsair 520watt
Seagate 1TB 7200rpm SATA hard drive
Windows 7 32-bit
Would I see major changes if I upgrade the ram to 4GB and switch to a 64-bit operating system? 8GB of ram nowadays at 1600MHz is affordable nowadays so I can go as high as that if needed. Or is the CPU the main bottleneck? I was looking at the i5-2500k as a worthy replacement.
*edit: I also have been reading around that AMD's cards have been underperforming on Skyrim and we will have to wait on an update driver. Not sure if this is true.