Probably the 150,000,000th Vid Card Question., I need a bit of help again Options

[Taillus]

Stop me if I am going crazy with this but I really want to make sure. Through work I am able to get an ATi X800 AGP 256MB Vid Card at a really good price. I know this card is listed on the "supported chipsets" in the FAQ's of their site but that is as far as my knowledge goes.

I have a 2GHZ P4 Processor
512MB of dual channel DDR ram
a Sound Blaster card (No idea what type)
and as it stands a P.O.S Nvidia MX 420 Vid card
Not to mention that I have updated just about everything I can possibly think of.

If I replace the vid card with the X800 stated above will I be able to run Oblivion? I really don't mind if I have to run it in 640x480 and with the bare bones settings I just want to play it like mad. Will this setup do until I have the extra cash to buy a Dell XPS system next year?

[ThanadoS]

as far as i know, that card should just work fine. It's the same gpu generation as my 6800 Nvidia chipset.
You should, and i recommend that even more than the gpu, upgrade your ram to at least 1gb. I plan to add up to 2gb, because ram is important for the huge outdoors, textures, physics etc. 512 could result in horrend loading times and very blurry outside renderings.

edit: Only drawback for the x800: Shadermodel 2.0, no hdr rendering imo, just not the uber cool effects. -> If you have the chance, invest your money in a geforce 6800, about the same prices.

This post has been edited by ThanadoS: Apr 1 2006, 04:12 PM