As you can see my rig is merely above minimum acceptable specs...I always tried to make the most out of my hardware and keep the upgrade process as far away from me as possible! With my current rig i can run Oblivion at 800*600 with all settings maxed! It's just a matter of tweaking and not being a fool to run and buy all the newest hardware! Vista sucks by the way! XP for now...Vista have a very long way to become as stable as XP...also expensive EAX-supporting sound cards are useless on Vista...Maybe Creative with the Alchemy project will manage something...wait and see! For more info on my favorite games and how to tweak them visit my blog (a6n0rma1.blogspot.com)