New pc specs, need advice?

[Violet]

I don't know about Skyrim, but for any game that has come out to date, 4GB is enough.

* Violet derisively laughs at 4 being 'enough' for games.

If you want to run Rift on ULTRA (everything), you need the most most motherboards can handle: 16, and get a processor over 3.2 GHz, sickest video card you can, and an excellent internet connection.

For reasonably decent gaming, 6-8 is enough... 4 is most certainly not. You know... not everyone is content to run their game on the lowest possible settings, especially when the higher settings add a great deal of depth to the game.



The processor is the conductor of the computer, the RAM is the engine, the video card is a miniature computer plugged into your computer that is devoted entirely to audio/video. Obviously... you can't go as fast in a car with a small engine.