stevako18

I love this demo, however, I wouldn't but this game unless I knew for sure I could get it to run stable on my system. My problem, the mouse goes bonkers after about twenty or thirty minutes of playing and I have to restart my cpu. I have a very stable, overclocked athlon 750 currently running at 863 mhz.(128 megs ram) I have absolutely no freezes, lockups, or program errors on any other game. I have a epox 7kxa mo bo, and a model 64 tnt2 w/32 megs ram and the detonator 3 downloaded. I also have a soundblaster live! value card installed, again no problems there. I have flashed my mobo with the newest bios update. if i can get this game to run right i will buy it. but if not, forget it! (oh yeah I'm using the windows standard mouse drivers) [This message has been edited by stevako18 (edited 08-17-2000).]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by DEF BUNGIS: Wayne, no it's not. There is a specific amount of voltage that proccessors uses. Weather it's a CPU or video card proccessor. When you increase that voltage, the proccessor in turn, speeds up. This is overclocking. You can overclock with software programs, tweak programs, and by physically changing jumper settings on your hardware. The problem with overclocking is it causes tremendous heat to develop on the proccessor chip it's self. It can also lead to an unstable system. So if your gonna overclock something, do it in moderation. Right now, I am overclocking my video card from 120MHZ, to 130MHZ. That is a good example. If you really want to do serious overclocking, it's recommended you get a better cooling fan for the chip you plan to overclock.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Technicaly, that is not accurate. Overclocking is increasing either the bus speed of your system, or the cpu chip itself.(on video cards you can change the memory speed, and the clock speed of the chip) Increasing the voltage to the chip is often the only way you can get the faster, overclocked chip to run stable at the faster settings. To my knowledge, simply increasing voltage will only make your chip run hotter not faster.