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Offline CrAz3D

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« on: March 16, 2008, 02:48:01 pm »
I have a 2ghz intel core 2 duo (or whatever I guess) and 2 gigs of ram.  i just want to be able to play things like counter strike nicely.  thoughts

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Re: vid card
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2008, 02:58:28 pm »
If you have the core 2 duo and 2gm of ram, your computer should have come with a decent enough video card to play CS.. or are you building?
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Re: vid card
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2008, 03:09:32 pm »
it has integrated.  playing CS almost makes me sick at 29fps.

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Re: vid card
« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2008, 05:29:43 pm »
I was CAL-i on 20 fps, get over it :P

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Re: vid card
« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2008, 06:30:01 pm »
20?  ouch



so I bought a ... radeon hd 2600, 512mb.  "hd graphics card for PC's and home theater PCs" and "remarkable gaming performance for directx 10"

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Re: vid card
« Reply #5 on: March 16, 2008, 06:40:20 pm »
Good choice.

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Re: vid card
« Reply #6 on: March 16, 2008, 06:47:32 pm »
buying at a store was not, though.  going to return and buy @ newegg.  WAY cheaper.

should i get this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121231

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Re: vid card
« Reply #7 on: March 16, 2008, 07:33:16 pm »
Either look pretty good, you're pretty much safe with a 512 MB card, with DX10 support, since it should be very backwards compatible with DX9 in the sense of less lag, more FPS.

EDIT:
Since Counter-Strike Source or CS, whatever you play (I'm assuming CSS because I wouldn't believe you'd get around 30 FPS in original 1.6).. but since you play CSS that's DX9, and not many games have been written with DX10, from what I've seen....