Thanks for all the input guys. Norman, I turned off vsync in windows and CS. The funny thing is, turning anything on or off has made little to no difference. Even adjusting the resolution CS plays in played little of a role. I took the plunge and purchased 3dmark to see how my machine matched up against others. It was hard to find anyone in the results browser with an identical CPU, so I overclocked my cpu to 3Ghz, to level the playing field... Man am I peaved I purchased an Intel CPU (or atleast this particular speed). While my video marks were relatively on par with others, I believe my CPU is dramatically holding back the potential of this video card. I may possibly be switching to a AMD 64 X2 or 64 4000+ CPU in the future, and upping my RAM a little. This may seem silly, but when I put this machine together a month ago, my intentions were to build an above average gaming & A/V rig. I could just upgrade to a 3.6Ghz Intel, but the price differential isn't much, and for that much money, I might as well go 64-bit.

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mat_specular 0 will take the shine off the surfaces, and add some fps. Your settings are way to high: Reolution: 1024x768 Antialiasing: X4 Filtering Mode: Anthriscopic X2 Wait For Vertical Sync: Disabled Shadow Detail: High Water Detail: Reflect World Texture Detail: High Model Deatail: High Shader Detail: High the shader is the biggest kiler --> Put all your "Highs" to "low" except shadow detail (gotta know when someone hiding behind a box... ;) ) dont use antialiasing and antiscpoic stuff .. put it too the lowest in the menus Make sure you have no crap running by the time on the taskbar, disable and exit them out. just play round with it, you will find the groove. Unless your one of those people who beat off too graphics? personally, I go for performace

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HAd to comment, just saw you say you were gonna switch to AMD, I have just come from that road and I have a diferent opinion. After coming from AMD XP / ATI to AMD 64 FX / Nvidia 6800GT (Asus A8n delux with corsair ram) to intel 3.4GHz / ATI x300 (intel 925x with dell ram) (thanks mum)... I will not go back to AMD for a while. I cannot believe the personal comparison I have made between AMD and Intel... I got a second opinion from a gamers computing outfit that I respect, They said Games = Intel.

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Update: I installed a beta driver from guru3d (forceware 80.40) and it did up my fps a bit. Im beginning to see FPS rise above the 100 barrier a bit, but for the most part still hovers between 60-80, and never dropping below 40. Funny thing is, and as I have mentioned before, I can drop my video settings, including resolution to their lowest, and I'll still achieve around the same framerate. It may go a little higher, but fluctuates so badly it's hard to get a lock on any FPS range but the lowest. Im satisfied playing CS with this performance, but will still upgrade because Battlefield2 (purchased over the weekend) struggles now and then :)

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btw, I wanted to ask, and this may be a shot in the dark; but can your power supply have a negative impact on the performance of your video card? Im using an OCZ Modstream 450W PS to power the following: PS: OCZ ModStream 450W CPU: 2.8Ghz LGA775 Prescott RAM: 1GB Geil Value Ram HD1: 1xSamsung SATA 120GB HD2: 1xMaxtor IDE 40GB CD: One Plextor SATA DVD Burner Cooling: 2x120MM Fans Thanks for your help.

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I read up this post and had to answer. I was reading yesterday some of the sites that actually go under the skin on the New NVIDIA Chipsets and i found a big lead that would help this topic. They mentioned that the 7800 chip would not be so different as far as being able to process too many more polygons per second as a 6800 but instead that it was based around shader processing, in outher words with a 7800 you would be able to play t a same rate as you would with a Geforce 6800 but be able to crank up those Video settings, I interpreted this in this way: 7800 wont give ya UBER FPS but instead alow you to have UBER Graphics. So i think that actually turning off the "High Settings" would only make your game looks worse but not improve the actual Framerate.

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