ATI Radeon X600SE

Please help me I'm a noob. My friend wants me to play CS source so I just bought an Acer Aspire E360 for 650$. Here are the specs

http://www.superwarehouse.com/Acer [...] ps/1483636

It runs an ATI Radeon X600SE.

Is this sufficient for cs source or should I upgrade it? Also what's the difference between X600SE, Pro, and XT? They don't have a benchmark for SE. What fps should I expect if I don't upgrade?

SE means sucky edition stay away from anything that says SE or LE. I must say that is a interesting choice in computers with that power supply your almost limited to whats in that computer. Im almost surprised it actualy works. Your video card is onboard and has no video memory it uses your system memory it comes with 1024 megs if you set your video to use 256 youll have 768 megs. Dont expect much from that card. I would say put some money into a new video card and use the pci e slot but i doubt the PSU would survive.

Stay as far away from thermal take as you can look up enermax 500watt true power if it fits in your case its compatable. Only problem is since you got a OEM computer it would void your warrenty.

The thermal take should be fine, it's good quality but the price is mid range

TT makes good heatsinks i suppose but thier power supplys arent that good.

If it was my $150 i would buy a quality psu something that says high standards

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817103447

http://www.enermaxusa.com/catalog/ [...] ucts_id=67

Its not a moduler PSU but thats about as rock solid as you can get for a psu. i have the 660watt version of this psu it has quad rails with a nice ampage per rail.

BTW

Words to live by.

Well I had a Dell computer with an X600SE and 1 gig of ram, it had a Pentium 4 3.0GHz Prescott and it ran CSS quite fine. I beat the whole damn HL2 campain on that thing, and as long as you aren't looking for super ultra everything (actually I ran mine at 1024 with most things on high, but no AA or AF) getting 70 to 90 FPS on the stress test, so you should be fine with it as long as you don't have a huge ass monitor or something.

The Mobility version of this is purring in my laptop, it runs pretty smooth (on Halo PC anyway). This card is essentially a PCIe version of the 9600, so you could look for benchies of that card. But that card is from 2003, CS:S wasn't released until 2004, so you may be hard pressed to find benchies anyway. I like the 7600GT angminas suggested, guaranteed to be the X600.