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

[DoomedOne]

Megil I have the exact same statistics as you

[Fuzzy Knight]

Hmm, I'm building a new PC - Gonna order the parts soon, I might buy a new GCard thought at Christmas..

Here's my list so far..

•NEC DVD recorder ND-3540A IDE Black OEM DVD+R/+RW/DVD-R/-RW (Dual layer)
•Sony Diskettstasjon 3,5" 1,44MB Sort Floppydisk Intern
•Maxtor DiamondMax 10 200GB IDE ATA/133 8MB 7200RPM
•MSI 915P NEO2-FR, I915P, Socket-775 Sound, SATA, ATX, GbLAN, DDR2, PCI-Ex16
•NZXT Nemesis Gaming Case Black (Uten Strømforsyning)
http://www.komplett.no/mlf/produkt/bilder/.../250/307228.jpg
•NorthQ Strømforsyning 4775 ATX 500W Silent, 140mm Fan, 12-17dBA, 20/24pin
•Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS, Bulk PCI Lydkort,THX,7.1,24-bit/192KHz
•Logitech G5 Laser Mouse, USB
•Logitech Media Keyboard Elite PS/2/USB, Retail
•Intel Pentium 4 630 3.0GHz Socket LGA775, 2MB, EM64T, BOXED m/vifte
•Samsung 19" LCD Syncmaster 913N Monitor, Silver, 8ms
•Creative I-Trigue 2.1 3600 (Sub,2 monitorer,forsterker), Retail
•Gainward GeForce 6600GT 256MB 2ns GDDR3 PCI-Express,"Ultra/1980PCX Tv-out, DVI

[Megil Tel-Zeke]

that monitor doesn't have DVI input only analog. O.o

[Fuzzy Knight]

Hmm, well I dont know if I'm going for that exact monitor, was just advice from a friend...

Whats a DVI Input???

This post has been edited by Fuzzy Knight: Sep 5 2005, 03:01 PM

[Megil Tel-Zeke]

I have the samsung syncmaster 173p which is cne't's top rater syncmaster. I love mine. granted it was $600, but came with a $300 rebate. so might not be within your budget O.o

DVI:digital visual interface. http://www.ce.org/about_cea/cea_initiative...Doc_1_04_02.pdf

everything else looks good.

but may AMD might be a better choice for CPU. just a thought.

also I have a NZXT tower. except mines "guardian" and not the nemesis.

This post has been edited by Megil Tel-Zeke: Sep 5 2005, 03:05 PM

[Fuzzy Knight]

Nahh.. I dont want AMD, thought about it but I'm using alot of programs like Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004, Fireworks MX 2004, Adobe Photoshop CS, JASC Paint Shop Pro 9.0 and all that, and so I think I want to stick with Intel Pentium 4..

If I have some extra money so might go for this one; Eizo 19" LCD FlexScan L768AS TCO-03 Grey

This post has been edited by Fuzzy Knight: Sep 5 2005, 03:16 PM

[Khaan]

Well my pc's never going to be near xbox-360 standard but I should be getting a pretty meaty 3d card in feb

[Fuzzy Knight]

Made a new list today, here's the "gaming part"...

Intel Pentium 4 - 3.2 GHz
1024 MB RAM
290 GB HD
GeForce 6800GT 256MB

Might get watercooling by Christmas then its just to 'clock' it or what ever you say in English and get around 4.0 GHz and I'll most possible buy the newest GCard at the time..

[Channler]

Meh Stats:

Motherboard: Asus N8-somthing
Chip: Athlon 64 FX-51
Card: ATI Radeon 9800 pro 128mb
Ram: 2 gigs
Hardrive: 2 Sata hardrives set on a raid (?) zero configuration

Need some money for a new card and I should be veiwing oblivion in great majesty

[Fuzzy Knight]

Meh Stats:

Motherboard: Asus N8-somthing
Chip: Athlon 64 FX-51
Card: ATI Radeon 9800 pro 128mb
Ram: 2 gigs
Hardrive: 2 Sata hardrives set on a raid (?) zero configuration

Need some money for a new card and I should be veiwing oblivion in great majesty

Well you have good time - When the system requirments come out I'll see if I'm going to upgrade my card as Oblivion comes out and sell my old one

[Chumbaniya]

I think my PC should be fine for oblivion. Here's what I think my PC has (though I'm not sure of any of the components):

2700 MHz AMD something-or-other processor
Either 512, 768 or 1024Mb DDR RAM (I'm not sure which two RAM things are in the PC at the moment).
Geforce FX 256mb (no idea what model)
Creative Audigy 2 Sound Card
152 Gig Hard drive (this is what my comp is telling me, I suspect it is meant to be 160 gig)

The main problem with my PC at the moment is the god-awful screen. I'll need a new one if I want to enjoy Oblivion in all it's shiny-grahiced glory.

[Fuzzy Knight]

Hmm, well the screen I'm going to buy for my new computer will be this one;

Samsung 19" LCD Syncmaster 930BF TCO-99 700:1, DVI-D, 4ms, 1280x1024

Looked over a few screens, and this was the best I cam over - very good price on it too actually Think it will do very good even when Oblivion comes out...

But over to the Oblivion System Requirments, maybe we could do some brainstorming trying to find out what the SR will be... I've been thinking and I think it will be pretty much like BF2, only that you will need a better GCard.

Think that with 1GB RAM will be enough to run it on maybe some graphics on "normal" and some on "high". I'm pretty sure you will need over Intel Pentium 4 2.4+ GHz, AMD 2.4 should work pretty good I think. Minimum 10 GB left on your HD just for safety reasons

[Ambberfox]

umm, this thread went slightly into the wrong direction ... this thread was not intended to give the people who already own an uber-PCs the possibility to show off with their system's specifications - it should be more something like a thread in which people who think that their system lacks a certain hardware-component, to make Oblivion run smoothly, can ask for suggestions about what to improve.

Either 512, 768 or 1024Mb DDR RAM (I'm not sure which two RAM things are in the PC at the moment).

I'd try to make sure that you have at least 1024Mb, 512 will certainly not be enough

[Redvsbluefan0]

My current stats:

-2.4Ghz AMD Athelon 3000+ XP processor
-512MB of RAM
-160GB 'o hardrive space
-128MB RAM Nvidia GEforce FX 5500 video card
-18 inch flatscreen monitor

Except for the GFX card and RAM I think I'm good.
Planning on an upgrade soon anyway

This post has been edited by Redvsbluefan0: Sep 9 2005, 07:13 AM

[molia]

amd athlon64 3200+ (sk939)
gigabyte k8 triniton (nforce4sli)
1gb ddr400 (pc3200)
cheap, no good pcx video-card (geforce fx5300@128mb)

u may b wondering: why pay so much for a gamer's processor, yet not invest in a decent video card?
simple answer: plan on upgrading when video cards get cheaper in romania. hopefully, i'll have some cash by july.
do u think there's the slightest chance i'll get 60fps(playable rate) on lowest at 1024x768?
btw: don't buy an nforce4sli chipset mainboard unless u plan to get a liquid cooling sistem right now i have 9 fans to cool my system. getting one more. don't bother additionaly cooling down the cpu. not necessary

[Infiltrator]

My current PC that I plan on keeping once I get oblivion:

Athlon XP 3600+ (2.2Ghz)
MSI K8N Platinium mobo
MSI GF6800 GT 256mbr
1 GB Kingstone DDR
Maxtor SATA HD, 80gigs (even that is too much for me)

[Channler]

do u think there's the slightest chance i'll get 60fps(playable rate) on lowest at 1024x768?
btw: don't buy an nforce4sli chipset mainboard unless u plan to get a liquid cooling sistem right now i have 9 fans to cool my system. getting one more. don't bother additionaly cooling down the cpu. not necessary

Yea, your gonna def need a newer vid card.. I'd also say get a another stick of 1 gig ram.

BTW about teh fans and watercooled systems.. there just to frickin cool to not waist your money on

[pringles2233]

I know that my current system will not run the game so I'm just hoping to get some advice on what to get so that it will be able to.

my current system is:

Processor: Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.00GHz
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420
RAM: 512 MB

I plan on getting more RAM and a new graphics card also more hardrive space what other things should I buy?

[Ambberfox]

I plan on getting more RAM and a new graphics card also more hardrive space what other things should I buy?

I'm afraid 2 Ghz won't even be enough for the minimum requirements, instead of a new hard drive I'd suggest a better CPU

[Alexander]

I plan to get a new computer at the end of this month or the next, I'm getting one with all the bells and such to make sure I won't have to worry about it nor running a game for the next 3 years at least