Best Video Card?, for CS:Source Options

[turtlekid75]

What's the best video card for cs source?

[burnoveride]

ok first of all video is built into mother bords but that is called onboard video witch sucks over all i dont care if u think it's good it's not :) if u read the games system's recomends it says ati or nvidia 126 or 256 acclorator card meaning u have to go out and buy an acclorator card by ati ( boooo ) or nvidia ( yayyyy ) so pretty much on borad sucks lol

[mechwarrior1989]

ok first of all video is built into mother bords but that is called onboard video witch sucks over all i dont care if u think it's good it's not :) if u read the games system's recomends it says ati or nvidia 126 or 256 acclorator card meaning u have to go out and buy an acclorator card by ati ( boooo ) or nvidia ( yayyyy ) so pretty much on borad sucks lol

There's nothing wrong with ATI boards. If you know anything about graphics cards, you'll know that games that utalize the HL2 engine run better on ATI cards and open GL and other games will run better on Nvidia cards, however, this is only apparent in the higher end cards. Open GL has always ran better on Nvidia but the cards have been fairly competative overall. Of course integrated graphics sucks, that's why it's cheap, but it's more than enough to run your computer. So if you're only going to be playing CS: Source and HL2 and what not for a long time, stick with ATI, otherwise, I'd say get Nvidia if you're shooting for higher end, that's the new 6-series, otherwise it doesn't matter too much.

My friend was interested in a 9800pro but I persuaded him to look at the 6800 instead since he isn't going to be playing HL2 forever and the 6800 is much better than the 9800pro.