Thread: Question!

ok guys i need to know before i try this, i am going to overclock my system so i can get better running staus on BF2, it takes a while to load and verify client data, and hopefully turn up the quality from medium to high, to do this i will make a new account if this account get banned by punk buster will it ban my other account or just that one?

Punk Buster will have no idea that you OC'ed your system. IT detects file changes within the game program. Unless you are doing a moster overclock dont expect huge results. Overclocking is not all it is cracked up to be unless you are going to get monter increases. When I OC my rig from 2.66 to 2.88 I get higher 3Dmark scores but that is about it. There may be a 2-3 FPS increase.

What is your system specs? How much RAM do you have. WHat kind of sound card are you dunning. Give us the skinny and we may can make some suggestions. OCing your rig will help a little but it is not going to save the day and may cost you your CPU if you dont know what you are doing.

Nuck

its a dell inspiron 1501 note book, ATI Radeon Xpress 1150, just came out with it, 1GB ram im going to get a 2GB stick, sound i dunno, 60GB HD, anything else?

You will most likly get a better responce if you post in the hardware forum. Should this just be moved?

You will get more attention if this is in the hardware section just as wildsrv said. The trick is that BF2 is a slightly different animal when it comes to improving your video and system performance. For faster load time the two best things you can do is to add that second gig of RAM and with a desk top install a X-Fi sound card. Not sure what the options are on a laptop. My prayers are with you regardless gaming on that.

I still just do not feel that OCing is the answer. OCing for me is something that should be done as a hobby to see how many 3Dmarks you can get. As for normal gaming I just don't think the benefit out weighs the issues. Maybe I suck at is but every system I have OCed was less stable and did not yield a big performance gain.

Nuck

thanks alot guys im just going to upgrade to the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT, grr thats another $500 it rivals the Nvidia's GeForce 8800GTS, and get a bigger hard drive, the laptop i have has a fast enough hard drive

okies...are you playing on a laptop or desktop? you say you play on a laptop, but keep talking like youre going to upgrade your parts with seemingly desktop parts. at least the last time i messed around with a laptop, youre pretty much stuck with whatever video chip it came with...theyre usually built into the motherboard. they only things youre really going to be able to upgrade/add are your memory and the harddrive, but as far as video cards are concerned youre sol.

just dont want you to go get a 500$ desktop video card thatsk about half the size of your laptop to find out you cant use it...

and as already addressed, heat and power are already a big concern with laptops as it is, and all overclocking (if its even reasonably possible to do on a laptop) will only make things run hotter in an environment thats already working/designed at it's peak heat dissipation.

sooo, in a somewhat summary:

-if youre talking about a laptop, you are pretty much looking to be able to upgrade the memory and/or harddrive.

-if youre talking about a dektop, then its pretty much free reign, assuming you get compatible parts...so you would need to find out what kind of motherboard/chipset/cpu youre running and go from there.

the laptop is a temp solution, but the ATI card is for my new computer desktop why not buy it?
it had alot of good reviews, and is "said" to be better then the nvidia