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

[minque]

yeah...my girls have each a pretty good comp, then there´s the tired one that hubbie and son use....and there´s my lappy....

But you see....it´s me being able to play Oblivion that matters just now....see me girls I don´t really bother, one of them is in US for a year, the other one is not a gamer....hubbie doesn´t understand a thing about neither comp`s or games....so it´s me ....and I just have to get it working!

The daughter who´s in US will get me Oblivion as soon as it´s out she promised!..yayyyy

[Jonajosa]

Case/Power Supply
500 -watt ATX

Prcessor
AMD Athlon 64 FX-60

Motherboard
Asus A8V Deluxe

Memory
2GB (twin sticks)

Optical Drive
Pioneer DVR-108

Hardrive
500GB 7200rpm

Sound Card
Creative Labs X-Fi Xtreme

Video Card
Two GeForce 7800 GTXs


Play the game the way it's meant to be played.

[Marxist ßastard]

  Jonajosa

Case/Power Supply
500 -watt ATX

I appreciate your generosity in listing your biggest mistake first. Just a plain ATX power supply won't work with this mainboard, unless you want to do a hack that'll earn you a geek Bar Mitzvah. It requires an ATX12V power supply, a hand-me-down from the server market that was obsolete before it was even suggested that K8 boards use it.

I also take it that you plan on using a generic part. Watch as it disappears in a puff of blue smoke, leaving only the charred remains of a sticker reading "hecho en Mexico."

Prcessor
AMD Athlon 64 FX-60

Extra points for using an SMP system. Slight reduction for using something that, AFAIK, isn't even on the market.

Motherboard
Asus A8V Deluxe

With the VIA chipset? Meh. To each his own.

Memory
2GB (twin sticks)

Extra points for taking advantage of the dual-channel capabilities of the board.

Hardrive
500GB 7200rpm

You're paying extra for a mainboard with RAID support. Why aren't you using it?

Sound Card
Creative Labs X-Fi Xtreme

Why? Your mainboard has integrated audio. If VIA's audio is so dreadful that you have to use something from Creative instead, then you should've looked into using an nForce board.

Video Card
Two  GeForce 7800 GTXs

What, in case one gets stolen by aliens and you really need an HL2DM fix? That board isnt wired for SLi, and besides that, it doesn't even have a second PCI-E x16 slot -- on top of that, it doesn't have any PCI-E slots besides that one, period. That'll limit your upgrade options. Then again, your prospects aren't too rosy anyways, with AMD set to ditch PGA939 and convert to a new processor socket probably before Oblivion is released.

Play the game the way it's meant to be played.

Hypothetically?

This post has been edited by Marxist ßastard: Jan 8 2006, 10:56 AM