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O/Ced system jerky in games?

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Grendel99

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I play an old RTS (Total Annihilation) online a lot. And I was playing a friend, we both had cable, the ping was under 80 between us. He has a 1.2 ghz tbird (not o/ced) and 512megs of PC133 ram. I have a P3-700E @ 933 stock voltage (1.65v), on a Abit BX6 rev 2. 256 megs of pc133 crucial ram. Yadda yadda yadda...

Anyways, he swore he could tell I was overclocking, b/c the units were jumping all over the screen, and they were lasting longer than they were suppose to (not dying) etc. On my end, everything was running super smooth. And we weren't lagging at all. We had great connection etc, good computers too. He said that my comp was doing that b/c the cache was running faster than it is suppose to.

Is this true? And would it really effect this game? The game barely uses the video card and runs off the CPU mostly. I have plenty of cooling and a good power supply. Too see if it was overclocking I dropped it to 700 and we played again and he said everything was good, units weren't jumping around etc. I have never had another player complain about me having jumpy units, and not dying etc. Is he bsing me? Or is o/cing effecting my system?
 
<<units were lasting longer than they were suppose to (not dying) etc.>>

That's the best excuse I've heard yet for getting frag'ed in a game 😀. He is BS'ing you.
 
I think he likes his 1.2ghz superiority and doesn't want you close. I know that speed of systems can make a difference in some games. When I had a faster system with better graphics card I could always beat my friend racing Monster Truck Madness. But it got a whole bunch tighter when he upgraded. (That was awhile ago.)

Only possibility that even sounds feasible is if you are overclocking your fsb so much that it effects your network card (don't have cable but am assuming you connect the cable modem to your computer with network card) And some network cards do act up with high fsb overclocks.
 
LOL JimMC, you might be right 😛

But yes, I am using a network card. Netgear FA310TX. Does seem kinda wierd considering that guy is the only person who has ever complained of those problems while playing me 😕

Thanks
 
If you have access to another network card, I would try it and see.

Still might just be him not liking to get beat.......😀
 
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