See. [poke] I think my current card runs about the same at a refresh rate of 72Hz. No lag or clipping from the video side of things, and my computer can easily handle it, but my connection is a big question mark still. I had a connection block on the phone line go bad and we just swapped the incoming line over to the second block on the houses junction box. I haven't tried CS:S since then so I don't know if it really helped my speed issues or not. It certainly fixed the bad phone line. :roll: Maybe I can get on and test my connection some time when you're on. Karl UZI-Dude Mann. :roll: