Advice on creating a £800 gaming rig
Hi, I was wondering if I could get some advice on creating a gaming rig for £800 with the capability of playing The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. That's the watermark I've set it at because I reckon that'll at least give me a few years of decent gaming before I have to upgrade.
I'll most likely be doing my shopping at a computer fair so if I can walk in there armed with a printed list of specs that would be great, and I won't get lost in countless junk perhaps being touted.
To save you guys from trawling the net for Oblivion specs, here they are:
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Recommended:
* 3 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
* 1 GB System RAM
* ATI X800 series, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series, or higher video card
Minimum System Requirements:
* Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows XP 64-bit
* 512MB System RAM
* 2 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
* 128MB Direct3D compatible video card and DirectX 9.0 compatible driver;
* 8x DVD-ROM drive
* 4.6 GB free hard disk space
* DirectX 9.0c (included)
* DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card
* Keyboard, Mouse
Supported Video Card Chipsets:
* ATI X1900 series
* ATI X1800 series
* ATI X1600 series
* ATI X1300 series
* ATI X850 series
* ATI x800 series
* ATI x700 series
* ATI x600 series
* ATI Radeon 9800 series
* ATI Radeon 9700 series
* ATI Radeon 9600 series
* ATI Radeon 9500 series
* NVIDIA GeForce 7900 series
* NVIDIA GeForce 7800 series
* NVIDIA GeForce 7600 series
* NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series
* NVIDIA GeForce 6600 series
* NVIDIA GeForce 6200 series
* NVIDIA GeForce FX series
I'm looking at playing with with something like a nVidia Geforce 7600 or something, at least high end.
It's tricky to pull off the balance of memory and processing power I've found.
Your help will be greatly appreciated.