I built this last summer. What do you think?

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939
CPU: AMD Athalon 64 2.2GHz
Power Supply: Rosewill 500W
System Memory: SDRAM 1GB x 2
Video Card: ATI ALL-IN-WONDER 9800 PRO
Hard Drives: Maxtor 200GB, Hitachi 500GB
Drives: AOpen CD/DVD burner, Lite-On CDR/RW burner
Peripherals: Samsung 19” Flatscreen Monitor, Rosewill scissor-key (laptop style) keyboard
Case: Thermaltake Tenor (home theater style)
On board sound connected to separate stereo system.

I'd have to say that's a nice rig. It is similar in several respects to my old rig. I had and Athlon 64 2800+ @ 2.0GHz. A gig of DDR400, and a 9800 Pro. I loved that 9800 Pro. Back then it had a fair amount of power, it handled everything I threw at it. That is, until I tried to play Oblivion on it. That's when I decided it may be time for an upgrade. I bought myself a 7900GT.

The 7900GT handles Oblivion much better, but thanks to the constant geometry and texture thrashing that occurs in the game, my framerates still aren't perfect. That's more of a CPU and RAM thing though.

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That is a well nice rig you have got there, wouldnt mind one my self 8-)

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Oblivion's thrashing problems seem to be due to conservative cache management. Unmodified, there seems to be a hard coded limitation that prevents Oblivion from using more than 256 MB of VRAM, in addition to restrictive default cache settings. This is probably all due to the Xbox 360's rather limited (albiet, super fast) 512 MB shared VRAM/Conventional RAM (plus the 10 MB dedicated to the visual processor).

On the other hand, low frame rates are almost certainly due to the fact that Oblivion was designed to take full advantage of the 48 unified pipelines of the Xbox 360's ATI Xenos graphics processor, which gives it 6 GVertices of geometry transformation power (that’s 50% more than a GeForce 7950 GX2 SLI setup) – perfect for taking care of all that grass.