Oblivion System requirements

[Switch]

I definitely recommend Ebuyer for components. They're cheap and reliable. I got two sticks of 512MB DDR 400mhz RAM from them for about £70 a few months back. The only thing I don't recommend is getting one of their cheap Ebuyer brand PSUs, as I have my suspicions it's that which blew my last motherboard.

 

Component installation is pretty simple... problem is you need someone who can teach you. I learnt in about an hour.

 

Anyways, if you can't build your own, I'm not sure on a really good place for prebuilts. I've only really ever bought barebones systems. All I can say is, avoid Dell at all costs!

 

Oh, and by the way, it's The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, not Morrowind III. :D

[Dark0ne]

Dell are good for your TFT monitor needs.

 

Personally I use Dabs over Ebuyer, I find Ebuyer delivery is awful and any site that provides prices exc. VAT first sucks the balls. It's not Viking Direct ffs ;)

[Switch]

Haha yeah that is one downside! You have to look at the little tiny price for the real cost, below the big bold liar price. :P

 

I can't comment on Dabs as I've never used them. I'll need to investigate one of these days.

[Dark0ne]

I've had brilliant experiences with Dabs. Their prices rival Ebuyer's.

 

When my mobo died when I started uni I ordered a new one at 8:45pm and it arrived 10am the following day at the standard £3 delivery charge. Now that's good.

[Dilvish]

Has anyone heard of this outfit?

 

http://www.pugetsystems.com/

[Guest]

You guys are absolutely wonderful! Thanks for your reccomendations on where to buy what (I've got to look into Dabs. It sounds brilliant). I don't think I have to worry about anything getting here too slowly though, considering the ob release date seems somehow to be moving farther and farther away :(

Regardless, your advice has really helped (buying a computer always feels terribly daunting). Usually I'm a console gamer, but modding oblivion? I have no qualms blowing a few extra hundred (from the states) on a good computer if that's the perk. Thanks again guys!

 

<3 Amara

[UberBender]

I'm happy with my cyberpowerinc.com rig, although the drivers it came with were a bit sloppy. They did a nice job keeping the cables out of sight.

[batesmotel34]

For upgrades and replacement parts I've had really good serivce and found good prices from newegg.com in the States.

[Ancalagon]

cool thing about having an ati radeon chip, the catalyst control tool that lets me fine tune how I want it to run also tells me the amount of ram on my PC. It states that i have roughly 511 MB, so I can always afford to get some more. As an added question (or statement) if I can run Doom III, I can obviously run Oblivion visually. But since Bethsoft is claiming to have the AI to end all AI (in terms of how NPC's react and so on and so forth) I take it that that will be the major hitch. AI like that requires a huge amount of memory, therefore RAM, am I correct?

 

Too bad they won't give us any details on those specs, I would love to know just how much memory (like ballpark figures) I would need. Thanks to all the responses btw, I figured my system would be decent enough, I just needed a second opinion.

 

Also, I only have a pentium chip in the PC. Whereas the pc isn't stock, it's actually a custom job I had built at a PC show in 2003 for college. Now 2.8 Ghz is like the norm, so methinks I should go chip hunting or somewhat...

[Switch]

Well, I would recommend getting 1.5GB of RAM. Sticks of 512 DDR 400mhz come pretty cheap nowadays, like £30 a piece.

 

The A.I. would rely mainly upon RAM, and CPU power I think. 2.8ghz may well be sufficient; CPU power has never factored too greatly into gameplay speed in my experience. Of course, Oblivion may be an exception, I don't know. If you can afford a processor with all this multi-core multi-threaded technology though, it sounds like it'd be worth it. :D (Of course, we're talking god knows how much cash there).