Maynard, I think you're hard headed. I'm not trying to be rude, but you must not be thinking straight to completely throw out what bears said. Bears is correct for most parts of his post.

Better hardware will help you without a doubt as long as you know how to use it. I've gone from a regular optical mouse to my razer lachesis and I don't understand how I played without it for all of these years. I immediately noticed a difference in how well I could aim and just the way it felt. So much smoother and easier to play with.

I got a new monitor and once again immediately noticed a difference with my skill level. I could see things from across maps all of a sudden that I couldn't before. It helped drastically by improving the colours of just about everything. I can see much clearer and distinguish between objects and people much better.

I got a new tower 100x better than my old one and again, noticed a big change in the way I was playing. CSS ran much smoother and fps was not an issue due to my graphics card and all that fancy stuff inside my case.

I got a nice headset so that I could hear where people were, as bear said. That alone helped my game a ton. I can listen for when people are walking around corners and pretty well pre-fire as I hear them approaching it.

You can't tell me that this was all coincidence... Hardware will help you out if you know how to use it. Thats the basis of what we're trying to get across to you.

Care to 1v1?

P.S. Just in case you call me out for being younger than you, that means nothing. I have been playing since the the original half life came out. I've played every game since then. Just a fyi..

This was in no way meant to be offensive or aggressive.. just came out that way. Hopefully I covered everything in there.