Buying Another Pc.

[Mana 3,867]

Mine usually drops down to 50 fps on intense fights. TF2 is also very CPU intensive, and I dont think it utilizes dual cores as much as it should. You should be getting higher FPS than me since your GPU and CPU are both better than mine, I have an Q6600 but I overclocked it to 3.1 ghz.

Source does not use multiple cores much at all. It uses Core 0 100% and the rest between 2-5%. Also source is very CPU intense, where most other engines use the GPU which can do the same tasks much faster Source uses the CPU. It does not help that it's implementation of multiple core use is rather crappy. Hopefully they will have something better when Left Four Dead comes out.

[El Phantasmo 56]

almost any computer should be fine.

I use a <$65 AMD X2 5000+ and 8800gt without any problems at all.

Buy a dedicated video card 8800gt or 4850 or greater

Get an 2+GB ram

[Rydawg 14]

Hopefully they will have something better when Left Four Dead comes out.

Lets pray

[Mr Pain 0]

yall would laugh if i told yall my pc set up

and still i run tf2 mostly at max capacity. tf2 doesn't require a good pc, but if i were u i woulddget a different graphics card

[PriiME 0]

if u want some really good info and some really good recomendations go here www.mysuperpc.com/forums all these people do is discuss the new technology and best builds for the money. there is a guy on there that has recomendations for budget midrange and topnotch comp depending on how much u got to spend. when i built my comp in feb i found lots of helpful info there!!!!

[monkey 0]

If you are planning on building a gaming rig right now, Intel is the way to go. If you wait a bit for the new Nehalem chips to come, the C2D chips and the C2Q chips will be significantly cheaper. As for a GPU, the 4850 is great. Inexpensive and has good performance at decent resolutions.

[Captain Falcon 0]

I got it plus a geforce 8600 not 8500, playing everything on high and 1024 res. Pretty nice