{"id":53,"date":"2008-07-14T22:13:51","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T05:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/162.243.68.163\/blog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2008-07-15T16:49:05","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T23:49:05","slug":"its-summer-hows-your-overclock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"It’s summer. How’s your overclock?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My overclock<\/a>, it turns out, was a bit too much. So that’s why all the games were crashing! Well… It’s summer, and A\/C is for whiners and old people who might die of stroke. Give me a beer and a nice fan and I’m set. That is to say, a nice<\/em> fan, not one of those annoying oscillating fans.<\/p>\n

But the heat means a proportional rise in core CPU and GPU temperature. Noooo! I had to drop my CPU core clock a bit and all my crashing went away, well, except for those damn memory leaks of course. You can’t play games with an insane overclock in mid-July, unless you like to live in a freezing cold house. No thanks, I get that all winter.<\/p>\n

And after all, what’s the difference between 2.5G and 2.4G? I can’t tell the difference. I have two cores, so the MP3 player and other stuff isn’t stealing CPU from the games. By just backing it off that tiny bit, I am now able to run the fan at a much lower speed, which means my computer is almost civilized.<\/p>\n

And then there’s the PhysX card. Whatever that does. What exactly does<\/em> it do anyway? I know it’s supposedly “physics processing”, but I can’t really tell–the bottleneck in a combat sequence always seems to be waiting for textures to load. And it has a noisy little fan. I’m glad nVidia bought them, but sad too. Somehow I don’t see how nVidia will care about acceleration beyond that marketing bullet point.<\/p>\n

I guess I’ll blow something up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My overclock, it turns out, was a bit too much. So that’s why all the games were crashing! Well… It’s summer, and A\/C is for whiners and old people who might die of stroke. Give me a beer and a nice fan and I’m set. That is to say, a nice fan, not one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}