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Paul Olson:
I got my cpu at Fry's with a cheap motherboard that won't overclock, so I am stuck for now. I will get a new board one of these days then I will try overclocking. When you have some free time, quite a bit of free time, check out this thread: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=72776.40. There is a lot of good info there, but the thread has gotten pretty long.
Dmod:
--- Quote from: pinballwizard79 on September 04, 2008, 10:12:45 pm ---Do you guys overclock your CPU's?
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I'm overclocking now with an E8400 at 4 GHz. At this speed, all but a handful of driving games are playable without enabling frame-skipping. There's still some minor sound-skips on a few games but these usually disappear during regular game play.
At 3 GHz, many games are still playable but the audio glitches ruin the experience.
If you want to play games like Cal Speed, Radikal Bikers, Speed-Up, SF Rush, etc. I think you're looking at a 4GHz minimum. The Cruisn games run well at slower clock rates.
BTW, my experience above is with running Vista x64 and multi-threading which definitely squeezes more performance out of the E8400 Core 2 Duo.
pinballwizard79:
Hopefully in 6 months a 4ghz overclocked to 5ghz will be a mere $150
A few years ago purchasing a CPU capable of running any Cruisin game would have cost more than buying a dedicated cabinet.
Gotta love technology
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