Spectacle me a gaming rig (for Oblivion ~1k budget)

[gun9]

Good folk of hexus,

I am in the market for a new base unit that will comfortably run Oblivion in 1280x1024 with all graphical whistles & bells enabled (full draw distance, distant lands, HDR, etc.) while never/rarely dropping below 30fps.

The rig will mostly be used for gaming, but sometimes for office applications or multimedia work. Budget for this is around £800-1000 mark lower is better! if possible.

I need:

* CPU
* Motherboard
* Graphics Card
* RAM
* Hard Drive ~250Gb
* Case
* PSU
* Possibly an aftermarket cooler
* DVD-RW Drive


Thanks in advance and I will try and respond to suggestions whenever possible.

EDIT: Forgot to add, I am willing to do some overclocking if necessary, but am by no means an expert and this needs to be taken into account.

[ExceededGoku]

send me a pm wiht your email and I'll send you the excel document I made

[ExceededGoku]

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800 + Socket 939 , Manchester Core, 2x 2.0GHz , 1MB Cache, Retail £202.55
ASUS A8R32-MVP ATI, S939, PCI-E (x16), DDR 400, SATA I / II, SATA RAID, ATX £125.13
250 Gb HGST (IBM/Hitachi) 0A31636 Deskstar T7K250, SATA300, 7200 rpm, 8MB Cache, 8.5 ms, NCQ £64.16
580W HiperPower Type-R Modular Red PSU Quiet Dbl Fan aPFC ATX2.2 20/24 Pin £59.93
1GB (2X512MB) Corsair TwinX DDR, PC3200 (400), 184 Pin, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 2-3-3-6 £72.73
512MBPower Color Radeon X1900 XTPCI-E (x16)Mem 1450 MHz, GPU 625 MHz,48 Pipes VIVO £311.25
LG GSA-4167BAL Black 16x16 ±R Super Multi Dual Layer DVDRW/RAM Writer OEM UK £25.38
SilverStone "TEMJIN" J01S (Silver) Aluminium Front & SECC Body Tower case (w/o PSU) £54.63
Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro - S754/939/940 £18.74
Total: £934.50

Basically that with links :S

[sawyen]

throw in another £100 and get a 4400+ instead..

For the graphics card ExceedGoku is recommending.. you're better off with 2gb of mem..

Corsair VS 2GB kit perhaps?

[Dark Horse]

ExceedGoku's spec looks good. As sawyen said 2gb of something like corsair value is a good buy these days.

As for processor if you're willing to overclock it is pretty easy these days and almost all x2's should hit 2.4ghz (x2 4800+ level) without much hassle and can go even higher as I found to my delight. If you're really don't want the adventure of overclocking then go for the 4400+ but you won't learn nearly as much about your computer and you'll be £100 worse off

[DanceswithUnix]

Overclocking only really matters if you have a pair of those cards running in crossfire:

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...spx?i=2747&p=4