tech question

Desari · Post by **Desari** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 4:01 pm

zomgz, Pez... please say it isn't so! /shocked

Haha that is so old news!

But hey, I haven't come any problems on my MacBook, so I won't be QQ'ing and flaming about it.

Believe you me, Pez, I'll jump ship at the first sight of any dissatisfaction of my Mac (as I have done jumping off the AMD ship and back onto Intel's

-- although I still am teetering between NVIDIA and ATi).

Admittedly, I'm not a fanboy of either party. Whichever works well for me (and as it stands, the Mac works perfectly fine at the moment).

VMWare guest OS in Windows... Parallels guest OS in OS X... meh, whichever works.

BTW, Pez, you fail at providing old news.

You forgot about the Seagate data corruption fiasco on some of the MacBook (Pro)s.

EDIT: BTW, I upgraded my hard drive to a 200GB, 7200 RPM, 16MB cache Hitachi TravelStar 7K200 from an 80GB, 5400 RPM, 8MB cache Toshiba KM8034GSX SATA1 and it's running sweeter than ever.

I was going to opt for a Seagate, but didn't want to risk the drive failure issues. Boo, Seagate -- I love their desktop drives though.

Post by **Atelo** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 4:18 pm

I think his point was that Macs have problems too and it's silly for people to think they're immune to everything that happens on a PC.

I have never had any problems with AMD chips and have been running them since upgrading my P3-450 to a Duron 1.3 -> Athlon XP 2400+ -> Athlon 64 3000+ -> Athlon 64 X2 4600+.

ATI while I have had nothing but bad experience with and have noted that 90% of every game has a readme.txt file with some sort of known ATI video card issue, I still think is a decent vid card company. Just not one I'm going to buy from for now. That's my whole point too, everyone's own experience is different. It's like comparing car companies like Ford, Chev, GM etc... it's all about your personal dealings when overall, it's all the same shit.

Desari · Post by **Desari** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 4:26 pm

Man, those Athlon XP's were hella over-clockable!
I remember getting those 333MHz FSB chips cranked to 400MHz FSB and some voltage tweaking, essentially making a cheaper version3200/3400+ Athlon XP

fonebone · Post by **fonebone** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:17 pm

we did some testing with the mac books we have. they actually run windows xp pro faster than most of the laptops we have. here is a machine that is on special with us this month:
http://www.zones.com/site/product/index ... _tech_spec

Fumadyen · Post by **Fumadyen** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:00 am

have you tried syncing up your monitors refresh rate with you video cards refresh rate? From what i am reading on multiple forums it could cuase the FPS drop

Also check this post.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/threa ... 86&sid=1#0

Busted · Post by **Busted** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:44 am

To further the Power Supply issue. My old computer did this almost exact thing. Also, my buddy roughly has the same setup as you Hachi. It turned out, in both cases, to be the Power Supply was under powered for the system requirements.

I recently just rebuilt my computer. I got the 550W Antec Power Supply. Its minimal but it does the trick.

Hope to see you back online soon!

hachi · Post by **hachi** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 11:29 am

Ive tried syncing, fum and it didnt change the problem.

I'll look at the psu thing when I get a chance- most likely this weekend. For now I will just play on the old machine that I put everything back into.

Thanks again all! Ill post when I try something else.

Post by **Atelo** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:43 pm

hachi wrote:Ive tried syncing, fum and it didnt change the problem.

I'll look at the psu thing when I get a chance- most likely this weekend. For now I will just play on the old machine that I put everything back into.

Thanks again all! Ill post when I try something else.

If you want to fiddle before you have time to try a PS, I haven't actually tried something like this, but you could attempt to reduce the power consumption of the vid card by turning down the details in wow and capping the framerate at something low. The first way to cap the framerate is to turn on vsynch and set your monitor to 60Hz, which would cap you at 60fps. To get lower than you could try /console maxfps 30 in wow. Also try it in Windowed mode.

The last way to reduce power consumption is to reduce it in windows Display Settings -> Troubleshoot and reduce hardware acceleration. This might have funky results though, like D3D unable to start up.

Busted · Post by **Busted** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:46 pm

So I did some research for ya. From what I get with the issue you are having is that you have to remove the Hachi from the process as a whole.
The forum I read said "Remove the Hachi and you win at all problems!"

/LOL =D

hachi · Post by **hachi** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:32 pm

I tried to remove the hachi... but it didnt work out.