Want graphical mods for Skyrim but I'm lazy

So getting back into Skyrim and lost all my mods due to I have upgraded in the past. My Skyrim when I was modding back then still looked pretty much the same except that it was capped out at my gpu vram limit back then. What would be the ideal mods to make it look decent with little effort involved not to the point of Logan's Skyrim if you have seen it recently which is basically a new game at that point which I would like but I just wanted to start off light. I have a decent PC and here are my specs:

Xeon E3 1231v3
R9 290 Tri X OC 4gb vram (Had a 270x 2gb previously good card just not so great for Skyrim modding.)
16gbs ram

I know these kind of threads have been posted here before but can't access them.

Take a look here: http://www.gamersnexus.net/gg/2025-skyrim-graphics-mod-overhaul-and-benchmarks-2015

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I'm looking into Skyrim mods myself. Sort of doing research so i can save myself some time in the future. I have to say, this graphics overhaul basically just messes with colours and saturation. I'm not blown away by it. Looks like something that SweetFX or FXAA Injector does.

This is a great start.

I would just go with
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/607/?

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/85/?

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/8655/?

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/60/?

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/1111/?

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/27043/?

This should cover most BIG stuff.

Good luck Dragonborn.

If you want to up the render distance you can go into your ini file in my documents and change ugridstoload to about 7 (that's the sweet spot)