Graphics Card Help

BWK · 17 May 2010

Here...check out all the cards you are thinking of and compare the prices. You will find really good deals and do it within your budget.
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P.S. if your running with a PSU somewhere in the range of 500 I would stick with the Geforce 8 series or the Geforce 9 series cards.... or the equivalent ATI card...which ever you prefer. They will give you really good graphics for this game. And they have really good prices on them now. You don't need a monster machine to play all the pc games....I'm really beginning to think that the way they keep raising the bar on graphics that it is going to make everyone's machine a power monster that no one will be able to to play on due to the cost of electricity it will take to run it. Why in the world should you need a 1000 watt power supply to run a game...come on.... it's getting out of hand! It's really bad when need that much power just to make a game playable when your complete system has no need that much power.

rvbfan · 17 May 2010

ATI 5750, shouldn't even have to upgrade the PSU.

sygnus21 · 17 May 2010

For what its worth I ran my 4850 on 550 watt Antec Neo HE 550 power supply without issue. I'm also currently using the same power supply on my new i7 system with a 4890.

You don't need a whole lot of power, you just need a good quality power supply.

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apollodominion · 18 May 2010

in the past i ran Oblivion on a Pentium 4 Prescott HT 3.2ghz 3GB Ram DDR400 AGP Geforce 5950GT 1GB back in 2006 and it ran maxed so any card today from geforce 7600/8600 will work fine maxed.

vierasniper · 19 May 2010

Thanks for the advice guys, im gonna check out An 4850 or 70

sygnus21 · 19 May 2010

If money is a concern, the 4850 is a much better value. Do some research on it. I had one and loved it; it's a great performance card for the price.

Edit - If you're thinking about getting a 4870, you might look at a 5770 instead. Here's some comparisions, though I won't tell you I read all of them so....

5770 vs 4870 - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net
Ati 5770 VS. 4870 - [H]ard|Forum

kucing13 · 20 May 2010

ati 4 series is quite enough unless you want to test dx11. get your hands on ati 5series

apollodominion · 21 May 2010

there is a MOD for oblivion with larger textures and other tweaks and addons!! its kinda like FOOK for fallout 3.
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Recommended_Mods

but these texture mods you will need a Pentium D or better and 2.5gb RAM and a geforce 7600GT or better is what i recomend for it for res of 1440x900+ for best FPS

vierasniper · 04 Jul 2010

hey, guys me again. i ended up buying a 260gtx by bfg, i also bought a new psu.
i was curious if i would have any problem running it in my system (i haven't installed it yet) any help or info would be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advanced.

kurahk7 · 05 Jul 2010

vierasniper said:

hey, guys me again. i ended up buying a 260gtx by bfg, i also bought a new psu.
i was curious if i would have any problem running it in my system (i haven't installed it yet) any help or info would be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advanced.

If you are trying to run the gtx 260 on your emachine 300watt? power supply, I don't think the power supply would be enough to handle it. Buying from BFG is also gonna be pretty tough now because about 2 months ago, they announced that they would stop producing video cards, so the warranty might become an issue. But, the gtx 260 is a good buy