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Starcraft better then Prime95?

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RIght along these lines is my personal experience with the new starcraft/diablo, aka Warcraft 3. If you can actually get past the bugs that people have been encountering, this game is an excellent stress test. My oc'd system was rocksteady with anything I threw at benchmark/stress testing wise... at least until I played WC3. The game would crash out to the desktop complaining until I went into the bios and dropped the fsb by 2Mhz (157 to 155). I think this may have something to do with the programmers not writing the best code that they could've but regardless, it found an issue with my computer that until then had only appeared rather sporadically and infrequently, and never in any previous stress tests (so I had just dismissed it as Windows caused). Another good game to stress a system with is Civ3, altho this has been out longer.
-Haunter9x
 
jiffylube1024 i think you misunderstood my statement...what i meant by driver problem is that not due to starcraft...but like video driver, etc...
and as for WC3...my computer is completely stable with all bizzard games...no crash or nothing...but for WC3 crashes...i wouldn't doubt that is a bug in the games since it's so new...just my 4 cents...
 
A litte bit off topic but,

I can play WCIII all day long after my 1.6a at 2.4, but it just has a problem booting.. I have to reset it at least once for it to boot properly... it is set at 1.65 volts, but when I check it, it says ~1.54 maybe that is the problem?

MB Abit th7II? (has ath 850 chipset)
 
Originally posted by: joker4hire
A litte bit off topic but,

I can play WCIII all day long after my 1.6a at 2.4, but it just has a problem booting.. I have to reset it at least once for it to boot properly... it is set at 1.65 volts, but when I check it, it says ~1.54 maybe that is the problem?

MB Abit th7II? (has ath 850 chipset)
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Did you try the latest bios? It cures most of the cold boot problems.
 
actually superman, the problem i was having isn't the big bug that lotsa people have been having. Check on the battle.net forums under tech support, last I was there the boards were still flooded with people who's computers would reboot w/o warning five or ten minutes into the game. When mine would crash it would just crash to the desktop (and it wasn't the memory overflow error that other people have received that I was given either). Mine wouldn't crash in single player mode, only when I was playing multiplayer. And as i said, since dropping the fsb by two megahertz, it's been rock solid. Thus I conclude that it was a instability issue in my setup rather than the new game crashing. I'd say if your comp runs all the blizzard games rock steady than your system is solid w/o a doubt 🙂
-Haunter9x

(oh, and joker... I have an abit board and I have to set it to +15% (which should be 1.7V) to get 1.63-1.65 out of it, the board is probably undervolting u)
 
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