ATI 5770 or NVIDIA GTX 460

[Nobody09]

aree you kidding? crysis at 30 fps? thats lame.

and yes nvidia got dedicated cuda processors an physx processors, i can make my cpu work the physics while my graphic card render the game. I had 60 fps on crysis 1080p meduim range with my crappy graphic card.

 

And you are even more lame. If a game engine is designed to operate at 30 fps that's what it needs to be smooth. Oblivion is designed to run at 25 fps just like sims 3 is. It just all depends on the game engine. Most of them will cut your gpu usage down to nothing if you throw too much card at them. Crysis at 60fps is not better than crysis at 30 fps it's not a twitch game. As long as you can smoothly and adequately maneuver that's all that matters and since oblivion has a large hit zone with wide angles and fairly long depths it doesn't care one bit. Most games have fairly large angles and bit zones for ranged combat and oblivion certainly matches that as well.

[Vecna6667]

A few cards to look are the Radeon HD 5850, 6850, and 6870. They bring in good performance at budget to mid-range price ($270 for the 6870 was the highest price of these three cards and the other two were hovering around $200.) The 460 is still a good card, but the 470 falls into the same price range as the previous three cards mentioned.