the Aftermath of an OC

[LiquidImpulse]

Well I OC'ed my amd64 3200+ from 2.0 to 2.4. It was running stable and such and i even ran prime95 without any errors etc.

but when i play BF2 or any other games, there is indesribable lag. The "EA GAMES" intro, staggers and i tried doom 3 as well, both stagger. Is this a memory problem? CPU voltage right now is at 1.5, getting 2400 mhz, i used 240 x 10, and i set my HTT at 600 mhz. Memory is at 200mhz. And cool n quiet is off. Vram is set at 2.75v.

Any suggestions to fix this problem? Everything runs perfectly fine, but as soon as i use games, or applications that eat up a lot of memory, thats when there is incredible lag.

 

[LiquidImpulse]

**UPDATE**

yea, everything is just incredibly slow now,no spyware, virus, w.e. Nothing. runs prime 95 fine, but it seems everything takes FOREVER to do. ex. playing cs, BF2, loading apps. etc.please some1, help!!

 

[XJustMeX21]

is anything using cpu power in the processes?

 

[LiquidImpulse]

absolutely not, had everything off while playing bf2, doom 3,cs etc. still cant figure out why. I'm setting CMOS back to defaults and see if i can redo my OC and see if it was because of a "dirty" OC.

 

[HomeyFoos]

I had a similar problem with Battlefield VietNam. Different game, I know, but it was acting exactly as you mentioned. This answer may not fit your problem at all since you have dual 7800GT's in SLi but my problem was my video card was about to die. It was a Ti4200 128 and I 'upgraded' to a 5700LE. Swapped cards and the problem was gone.

The thing I first noticed was the terrible lag in the EA Splash Screen and then the BFV opening demo where the Copters are flying by to CCR's Fortunate Son. About a week later, the card was kaput. The screen would lock up and it would look like a circuit board that had been run through the 'mosaic' filter in photoshop. Only sometimes it was pink or red instead of green.

I didn't OC my system as I had a p4 3.0 prescott at the time and it ran about approximately as hot as the sun. As a matter of fact the EPA came by and told me my chip was personally responsible for the melting of the polar ice caps. The point? I really don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to OC'ing and obviously don't know if it is causing this problem. But it may be worth your while to take the machine out of SLi or to test both of your cards individually. It just may save you the time of troubleshooting an OC.

Hope this helps, but I doubt it will




HomeyFoos

 

[thecoolnessrune]

instability? did you overclock your GPU as well?

 

[LiquidImpulse]

nope, never touched the 7800's, turns out might of been the memory timings. Had to manually set them to 2-3-3-6, on the BIOS, they were detected as 2.5,4,and i forgot the rest. Set everything to default, volted RAM to 2.75(now stable running prime95),and im getting 2.6ghz on stock.Ran BF2 once more, perfectly fine.Weird

 

[LiquidImpulse]

Originally posted by: HomeyFoos
I had a similar problem with Battlefield VietNam. Different game, I know, but it was acting exactly as you mentioned. This answer may not fit your problem at all since you have dual 7800GT's in SLi but my problem was my video card was about to die. It was a Ti4200 128 and I 'upgraded' to a 5700LE. Swapped cards and the problem was gone.

The thing I first noticed was the terrible lag in the EA Splash Screen and then the BFV opening demo where the Copters are flying by to CCR's Fortunate Son. About a week later, the card was kaput. The screen would lock up and it would look like a circuit board that had been run through the 'mosaic' filter in photoshop. Only sometimes it was pink or red instead of green.

I didn't OC my system as I had a p4 3.0 prescott at the time and it ran about approximately as hot as the sun. As a matter of fact the EPA came by and told me my chip was personally responsible for the melting of the polar ice caps. The point? I really don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to OC'ing and obviously don't know if it is causing this problem. But it may be worth your while to take the machine out of SLi or to test both of your cards individually. It just may save you the time of troubleshooting an OC.

Hope this helps, but I doubt it will




HomeyFoos

ahh...very unfortunate for u buddy, how hot do prescotts run?I dont have a lot of background info on intel chips and such