Source Engine: Counterstrike Beta Hits The Street

Now that Doom 3 is out, everyone is eagerly looking forward to Valve’s Source engine and their upcoming Half-Life 2, myself included. The lucky folks at Anandtech got to look at a beta of Counter-Strike on the Source engine, and they let you know what kind of performance they’ve gotten.

“ATI is the performance leader when we’re talking about Source Engine performance at the high end. Unfortunately, we didn’t have an X800 XT to compare with our 6800 Ultra, nor did we have our 6800 nonultra that we predict would have fallen between the 9800 XT and X800 Pro (closer to the latter) in our tests. Apparently, some of our graphics cards decided to go on vacation this week to visit a penguin. When it comes to upper midrange, NVIDIA’s 6800 GT seems to have a leg up on the X800 Pro in most tests (though this may have changed if we could have gotten our Pro to run 20x15). This is just further proof that (so far) the GT offers some of the best value in NVIDIA’s lineup.”

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