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Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2003 7:48 am
by Skyline
I used to own a P4 and after the second overheating death I gave up. Plus when the wiring started catching fire...nah let's not get into that. This was all in the span of a few months...about 4-6 or so.
So maybe a.) I distrust Intel-manufactured systems or b.) the one I had was defective/not properly built/an Al-Qaeda-designed bomb in disguise/etc..
Diff'rent Strokes fer Diff'rent folks.
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2003 8:09 am
by Buttermaker
b.) the one I had was defective/not properly built
You got it. That was the reason it burst into flames.
Watch
this video to find out whether and Intel or an AMD based system survives in case of CPU overheating.
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2003 8:20 am
by Skyline
Skyline wrote:an Al-Qaeda-designed bomb in disguise/etc..
Sure it wasn't that one?
Informative Video, BTW. Of course you'd have to be batsheet insane to deliberately take out the cooling system while yer running yer system. Unless you like the taste of charred chipset with your marshmellows. :d
In my case I got a chance to get the internal temp. before it died, it was 174F..
P4s, AMD etc all need that extra bit o' TLC whenever you decide to...say..double their processing power. That's all I was gettin' at. Otherwise the system'll die and/or you'll have an extra space heater in your home.
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2003 12:24 pm
by Rat
Hmmm when I posted the topic I didn't really expect to get a debate on overclocking.
If I want I can read more informed debates on that topic at many other forums
P.S
Killer Instinct doesn't seem to work in 0.67 ?
and crusin' USA is unplayable on my PC at auto frameskip 9 & 1 fps, will be waiting a year or two to play that one.
But as i said before most games play spot on. I think it might have been the "fast user switching" in XP that was slowing me down at times ? even in old games. Anyway I fixed performance with what I posted in the first thread.
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2003 9:30 pm
by mahlemiut
Rat wrote:Killer Instinct doesn't seem to work in 0.67 ?
It should.
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2003 10:27 pm
by Chad
kinst does work you just need the chd file part of the "roms", it's requireing them now, where i think you could play even though you didn't have the chd file?
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2003 10:40 pm
by Rat
Yeah thanks, I just saw that after I did an audit and tried to run it again, it comes up with the error "kinst.chd NOT FOUND"
I'll have a look for that later, I think I have a couple of .chd's in the cupboard
