vid card

[CrAz3D]

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

[Krazed]

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?

[CrAz3D]

it has integrated.  playing CS almost makes me sick at 29fps.

[rabbit]

I was CAL-i on 20 fps, get over it :P

[CrAz3D]

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"

[abc]

Good choice.

[CrAz3D]

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

intead?

[abc]

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....