It's probably either an HD5770 or an HD5750, in fact.
Anyway, that thing you describe? Totally normal. Adjust the settings yourself, to whatever you think the system can handle. Likewise, you can alter further settings, from the main menu in Oblvion itself, before or during play. Dunno if it's just me, for example, but the dumb thing had Bloom *and* HDR selected when I installed and first ran it.
So I disabled Bloom, and maxed all the sliders, and restarted the game, thank you very much.
tl;dr: nothing to worry about.