One of my Christmas presents from my wife was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on PC. I had seen all the commercials and heard everyone talking about it so I really wanted to play. I don’tplay video games alot – maybe 3 hours worth a month, but still this game looked like one of those “must owns”.

When I asked for the game I knew my PC was powerful enough to play it with my dual 2.5ghz processor and 4GB Ram, but I had a suspicion about the graphics card. In fact, the graphics card I had been using was an integrated chip (read: it sucks).

Sure enough when I install the game and go to boot it up for the first time I get an error message saying my graphics card sucks and can’t handle it. So, I head on over to newegg.com and bought a graphics card. I was lucky to be purchasing around the holidays because they had amazing deals. I picked up a Nvidia GeForce 9500GT 1GB for $69.99 + free shipping. It’s not a top of the line graphics card, but it is a very nice upgrade over what I had. It also has 2 monitor hookups so I can run dual monitors in the future.

In total I’ve played MW2 3 times about 15 minutes each time. I haven’t had time to dive into the single player campaigns and always get waxed when I play online. My best record so far is 7-8. Hopefully I’ll get more free time coming up so I can get the game down.