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[EatChildren]

I'm looking for feedback from those running Mass Effect 2 on an overclocked system.

I ask because I cant. I had the same issue with the original Mass Effect; with my CPU OC'd the game just wants to crash too often. Sometimes it will crash 5 minutes in, sometimes 20. Lots of instability across both games.

I thought it might be a UE3 issue, but no other UE3 game has any problem. I get a fantastic performance boost out of UT3 and co with no instability, and honestly, COD4 is the only other game I own that does not approve of my OC.

Not that I'm asking for a fix or anything. The nature of the OC means there will usually be a title out there that doesnt like the hardware, and its not a big deal to dial back my settings to factory defaults for when I need to play these games, but I was just looking for some input from others to see if they too are playing with an OC'd system and getting instability issues, or if everything was going silky smooth.

[searanox]

Crashing while overclocked means that your system is unstable, end of story. The fact is that even though you can run stable 95% of the time, there's something in Mass Effect that is bringing out a problem. Maybe 95% stable is good enough for you, maybe it isn't. That's a decision you have to make, but you could potentially be risking the life of your system as well as data integrity.

For any heavy overclocking, be sure to run a stress test like Prime95;1 hour should be decent to weed out any major problems, 8 hours is good to see if your system is comfortable running overclocked, and 24 hours or more is highly recommended to confirm an overclock is stable. If you experience any errors, crashes, freezes, or BSODs, it means your system is unstable. Certain errors can be fixed by simply increasing voltages or playing with multipliers, while others will require more in-depth tweaking. Turn off power management settings in your BIOS while figuring out your overclock settings, then turn them back on when you know you're stable. The fact is that getting a proper 24/7 overclock is a lot of work and could take you weeks to figure out depending on your hardware and your experience with overclocking.

For the record, I have a Core i7-920 overclocked to 4.0 GHz 24/7 on a Gigabyte EX58-UD3R motherboard, cooled on air with a Scythe MUGEN-2 heatsink. It took me close to a week to get a solid overclock at voltages I was comfortable with, but in the end it was worth taking it slow rather than just cranking things up and hoping for the best.

Modifié par searanox, 24 mai 2010 - 02:01 .

[EatChildren]

Thank you for the advice searanox but I've already done all that. I spent about a week testing my system when I OC'd it and it wasn't until ME/ME2 that I really noticed any issues. And my COD4 issues only existed when I OC'd a bit too far. Dialling it back a little fixed the issues for that one.

And yes, it probably means something somewhere is unstable, but considering ME/ME2 is the only software I own that reports any issue including what I used for testing, and my system has been otherwise silky smooth for well over a year, I dont really feel like going back to square one and testing again.

Besides, the main reason I OC'd was because my system itself is pretty old (AMD64 X2 3800+ 4 LYF) and I want to get the most out of it before I do an upgrade.

Regardless, thank you. As I said I'm mostly looking to see if anybody else is playing on an OC'd system and what kind of, if any, issues they're having.

Modifié par EatChildren, 24 mai 2010 - 02:26 .

[Loerwyn]

I'm on an OC'd system, and I've had no issues at all. My E4500 is 2.2GHz stock, and I've ramped it up to 2.75GHz with no voltage increases or anything. I have, however, increased my PCI-e bus speed to 103MHz instead of the standard 100MHz, and it's removed all crashes I had in Fallout 3.



ME2 worked fine at 2.8GHz too (100MHz PCI-e bus), but any higher and I'd have instability without better cooling/increased voltages.

[bassanio95]

OC'd here with no problems.