Jumpy gaming after overclock?

[Max2559]

Hi

So ive overclocked the e6600 to 3.0 ghz (its done 3.4 in the past). Im running it on a Gigabyte Ga965p-DS4 motherboard.

Only ive just noticed that game play (BF2) stutters more when the cpu is overclocked (even a mild overclock to 2.6Ghz has this effect).

The setup is stable as ive run 3dmark05 and prime and mem test....

Is there a reason that overclocking it makes the game more choppy? I thought its meant to increase performance!

Cheers,

 

[hmammen]

have to break in the clock, eventually it will smooth out.....same thing happened when I OCed my gpu.

 

[reggie_da_man]

I don't know if this will help but try setting the CPU affinity to CPU 0 only instead of both.

 

[Max2559]

cpu affinity? - sorry help me out

 

[reggie_da_man]

Press ALT+CTRL+DELETE go to processes find the game, right click and click on set affinity, then uncheck cpu 1.

 

[Max2559]

Tried that... no help :-(

Interesting thing is that its only jumpy when playing on the internet. BF2 runs sweet as in single player mode... does that mean that its my network connection? - Its weird as if i drop my cpu speed back to stock it works fine over the internet (without the choppy graphics) - By the way im also running a X1900XT 512 HIS (So i know the graphics card can deal with it)

Any suggestions?

 

[reggie_da_man]

Well then it's probably your ping, look around the internet for tweaks.

 

[Max2559]

Cant be my ping as it doesnt happen when i drop the cpu back down to stock. - Im still so confused! - Im thinking that a new network card might help... as im using onboard at the moment. but again... it works fine when the cpu is a t stock - weird

 

[CrazeD]

Perhaps the over clock is messing with the on-board ethernet. I'd look into picking up a cheapie NIC somewhere and try that.

 

[Max2559]

Yes i will do that. Thanks. - Is a weid problem tho!