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Old 04-18-2008
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New Comp runs like a beast

System Manufacture: Acer
OS: Vista Home Premium
Processor: AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual core 4400+ 2.3Ghz
Memory/RAM: 2GB
Video Card: ATI x1200 (895mb shared)

so i got this today, instaleld counter strike source, and a bunch of ppl were sayign i wont be able to run it decently..so i tried it, i can run it with everything on max settings with 80FPS average.. odd i no but its sweet
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Old 04-18-2008
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Old 04-18-2008
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lol slight bragging in the forum

but ok thats good (Y)
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Old 04-18-2008
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I am surprised that it runs that will with that video card though. Looks like your biggest bottleneck on that machine for gaming.
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Old 04-18-2008
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I was one of those who was wrong. Good for you!
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Old 04-18-2008
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Glad you are happy with it. I'm not sure why people wouldn't think that could handle CSS though. CSS is not very hard on video cards.

Looks like you have a decent setup though to add a more powerful video card to if you need in the future (unless of course we are talking about a notebook).
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Old 04-20-2008
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Yeah, I was another who was wrong. I had forgotten that CS:S is demanding on the processor more than the GPU. In fact, I brought my frames up by 10fps by overclocking my cpu yesterday.
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