So, I used to have one of the fastest computers of anyone I ever played against. IE, I would spawn at the beginning of a round so much faster than every one else, I could sometimes cap their main flag before the other team would spawn.
Recently, my A8N-SLi Deluxe motherboard died on me cause the chipset fan burnt out and fried the chipset. I couldn't get the same motherboard because Newegg didn't carry it anymore. So I got the closest thing I could. The A8N32-SLi Deluxe. I figured this wouldn't be much different, and an easy swap. I was right....until I started playing BF2 again.
I had this feeling that I wasn't loading as fast anymore. People were either spawning the same time as me, or *gasp* occasionally before me....MULTIPLE people. Had everyone just gone out and gotten better computers all of a sudden? Better than mine?
I overclocked my FX-60 to 2.86ghz. Helped a little, but not enough. It still seemed too slow. I saw "verifying client date" for WAY too long.
I was starting to accept that maybe, for whatever reason, this new mobo was just way slower. But, that didn't make sense.......there had to be a reason. So, I finally decided to check all the clock setting for the different components.
Well, it turns out, for some reason, my DDR400 RAM had it's clock speed set at 100mhz.....so it was only running at 200mhz rather than the 400mhz it should be running at. WTF? I changed the clock setting to 200 so that it would run at 400, and what do you know.......I'm back to spawn time pwning. Next step is to OC the RAM....so maybe I can cap ALL the flags before anyone else spawns.
So, moral of the story......if you get a new mobo, check all the clock settings, and make sure they're not jacked up. It's a really nagging feeling to think that things are running too slow but not know why.
KiL
Recently, my A8N-SLi Deluxe motherboard died on me cause the chipset fan burnt out and fried the chipset. I couldn't get the same motherboard because Newegg didn't carry it anymore. So I got the closest thing I could. The A8N32-SLi Deluxe. I figured this wouldn't be much different, and an easy swap. I was right....until I started playing BF2 again.
I had this feeling that I wasn't loading as fast anymore. People were either spawning the same time as me, or *gasp* occasionally before me....MULTIPLE people. Had everyone just gone out and gotten better computers all of a sudden? Better than mine?
I overclocked my FX-60 to 2.86ghz. Helped a little, but not enough. It still seemed too slow. I saw "verifying client date" for WAY too long.
I was starting to accept that maybe, for whatever reason, this new mobo was just way slower. But, that didn't make sense.......there had to be a reason. So, I finally decided to check all the clock setting for the different components.
Well, it turns out, for some reason, my DDR400 RAM had it's clock speed set at 100mhz.....so it was only running at 200mhz rather than the 400mhz it should be running at. WTF? I changed the clock setting to 200 so that it would run at 400, and what do you know.......I'm back to spawn time pwning. Next step is to OC the RAM....so maybe I can cap ALL the flags before anyone else spawns.
So, moral of the story......if you get a new mobo, check all the clock settings, and make sure they're not jacked up. It's a really nagging feeling to think that things are running too slow but not know why.
KiL
