You might be surprised to see storage at the top of the list. The reason for this is very simple: On a “bang for buck” scale, switching from a traditional hard drive to a Solid State Drive or from a Solid State Drive to an NVMe is the best way to speed up load screens, avoid stutters, and more. You may have all the processing power in the world, but if your storage medium can’t communicate that data to your processing units fast enough, it won’t matter how fast your GPU or CPU are. NVMe drives are the best available, but keep in mind that you do need a dedicated slot for one on your motherboard to use one. Solid State Drives are the next best, and can be used with any motherboard with a SATA port (which, nowadays, is all of them). Even an internal HDD will perform better than most external drives due to the speed limitations of USB.Įxternal hard drives - even if they are solid state - are not recommended under any circumstances. Last but not least, if you’re installing modlists, more storage space is never a bad thing.Īs for the other three categories - it’s fairly self explanatory. If you’re looking for specific hardware recommendations, this isn’t the place for it. There are infinite reviews of computer hardware elsewhere on the internet. Open up Living Skyrim, load into the game, then press Shift + F12. You’ll notice things look different, but you’ve also just gained anywhere from 10-20 FPS with a single keystroke (on average).

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