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i would say build your own with the AMD. i have been playing oblivion all week and i have a amd 3700+ 2gig of cheap corsair ram and a 7800gt and the game runs flawlessly with all the highest settings. I do suggest you get at least 1gig of ram the cheapest stuff you can get your paws on thats still a reliable brand unless you want to overclock you really dont need fancy ram. you wont need dual core most stuff isnt set up to take advantage of dual core cpus yet so i would wait a year or so before being worried about that. you will need at least a 400 watt power source. Depending on how tight your budget is i would suggest a asus motherboard they are right around $90 for a decent one or gigabyte for about $60. get a SATA hard drive and a motherboard that can handle it too its a nice speed boost over the ata. i have a ATA and a SATA in my computer ata being a old hard drive from my last computer and i can tell the diffrence real easy between the two.
If you do end up building your own i suggest checking out newegg.com great site to buy stuff from. good parts cheap and very fast shipping. tons of choices of what to get as well. Alot of people swear by tigerdirect but i was just recently screwed over by them so i wouldnt suggest it to anyone. Horrable customer service there.
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