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Alright, I went to Microcenter, I big computer store here near Cincinnati and I grabbed a Zotac 660 Ti. This is my first Zotac. I have only ever owned EVGA and PNY so we will see. All of the 660 Ti's were roughly similarly priced at about 299. The superclocked ones were a little higher and I think the EVGA card was 329 it had a few extra Hertz on the clock but wasn't worth 30 bucks to me. I put the 30 into the extended warranty. Cool thing about the warranty is I can take this card back for store value and do an even swap or put the price I paid toward another card so when the higher cards come down to the 400 range I can take this in, give them 100 bucks and walk out with the next beast card. Results are night and day. I fresh installed Skyrim, used all hi resolution stuff, put every step mod in, got Countervibe ENB in there it is rock solid at 60 and drops to 59 here and there. I am set at 4xAA, 16 AF at 1920 x 1080. I play on a home theater pc. The only thing difeerent I am trying versus against the 560 Ti is Adaptive Sync in the Nvidia console. Fraps has never went above 60 which is my refresh rate so to be honest, I am not sure if the Adaptive Sync is doing its thing or not. My verdict: this was money well spent.Â

Well that about sums it up. The 660 is the way to go.Â

One more question. The 560 ti I have now is 256 bit. If I get a 660 that is only 192 bit, am I looking at a similar performance because of the 192 bottleneck?

This are great responses. I appreciate it gang.Â

Right now I have a 560 ti but its only the 1GB version. I can pick up the 2GB version of the 560 ti for around 220 bucks or just grab a 670 or 680 for considerably more. My question is, will the 2GB version of this card give me the power I need to run this game with all textures and enb? I have never had any issues with other games with this card, in fact, vanilla skyrim runs full blast with this card. Its only when I start adding on those textures and other mods that I get the FPS hit. I admit, I dont fully understand what is affecting the FPS. I realize the vram is an issue with the textures but is the vram affected by ENBs as well or is that a GPU issue. I have this along with 12GB system ram and an i7 970 btw.Â

Wow this is great. I really appreciate this.

This may not be the best place to ask but I really like this forum. My 5 year old likes to play Skyrim. Basically he likes to walk around and ride the horse. Is there a mod or something that will keep all enemies from spawning so he can just roam around and not get ganked by a cave bear?Â

After installing STEP I have this issue when I'm mounted on a horse and I view the map. When I exit the map sometimes the camera ends up pointing to the side of the horse, sometimes it is behind it. Regardless of where its pointing when I exit, when I start to move the horse will do almost a 180 and I end up traveling in the opposing direction I was heading before I entered the map. The only horse/camera related stuff I can recall changing was in the skyrim.ini at the beginning of the STEP 2.2 guide. Any help would be great.