Upgrade Your Pc, The "Upgrade your PC 4 Oblivion"-Thread Options

[Ambberfox]

we still don't know what type of hardware will be required to run Oblivion smoothly on a PC but it's probably a fact that a lot of people right now are concerned about that their system might be too slow or lack certain other requirements.
What I thought is that anyone who wants to get some advices could post some informations about his system in this thread - only the main hardware-components, please - and then we could try to help that person with deciding what components need an upgrade - or if a completely new system is needed

[ShotFromBehind]

Alright well to start with let me add that I repair/upgrade/build/network computers for a living (alright I'm only 17, but still I earn enough for it to be considered a living). I am speculating my computer will be able to run it on med/normal settings, with a few extra things on high (such as view distance). Anyway, on witht the specs.

2.66 gHz p4 (overclocked safely to 3.1 ghz)
1gb (2x512) cosair memory with those dandy little heat spacer things
6600gt 128mb (pretty much the best price/performance ratio of any card)
and lastly a turtle beach: montego sound card sending Dolby Digital strait to my solid logitec z-680 5.1 system (nuthing like 505 watts rms to get the juices flowing)

Also I thought I might add that those of you thinking about skimping out and not getting a sound card WILL suffer some substantial performace loss because your using your processor to process the sound (basically) insted of a dedicated sound card. And if you are in need of one, go with Turtle Beach, you get the same sound quailty as sound blaster stuff at about 1/7 of the price for a comparable card.

Just my thoughts

(yes if I had to get a new processor I prob would go AMD so no bashing )