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    GPU OC and WoW

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by Alienowner, Aug 30, 2010.

  1. Alienowner

    Alienowner Notebook Geek

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    Hello all,

    Wanted to bring something up for discussion. I have OC'ed my GPU to 550/1320/900. This has so far significantly increased synthetic benchmark results (in 3DMark2006 and Furmark for instance) and the frame rates in almost every game I play (Dragon Age, Mass Effect 2, Borderlands). I haven't run into any stability issues so far (except WoW, which I'll come to in a second) and Furmark stability test has now been running for over an hour without any issues. Another example, Dragon Age after almost 4 hours of game play was running just fine yesterday night.

    However, when I open WoW with my current OC settings, the game hangs roughly a minute or two into the game. However, without the GPU OC, the game runs without crashing for hours on end. Interestingly enough, even when I try lesser OC settings, it still crashes after a minute or two. My question is, has anyone else noticed such behavior in WoW? Once again, it is the ONLY game that causes any problems with the OC settings.

    Thoughts, ideas?
     
    Alienowner, Aug 30, 2010
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  2. tassadar898

    tassadar898 Notebook Evangelist

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    Yes i have noticed similar results with alot of blizzard games, WoW, SC2, and even war3
     
    tassadar898, Aug 30, 2010
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    wow tends to use more cpu cycles than most games, could it be your cpu stability while gpu is OC'd, try running your cpu at stock while maintaining the gpu OC in WoW.
     
    xeroxide, Aug 30, 2010
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  4. Alienowner

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    I will try this and report the result.
     
    Alienowner, Aug 30, 2010
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    Yes, with no OC on CPU, the game still hangs with GPU OC.
     
    Alienowner, Aug 30, 2010
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    Can I assume that there is some lesser overclock you've tried during which WOW ran perfectly?

    seer
     
    seeratlas, Aug 31, 2010
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    In my experience blizzard games dont really benehfit from GPU OC as much as FPS games. So i have two profiles stock for blizz games and GPU OC for other games.
     
    tassadar898, Aug 31, 2010
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    Deofol Notebook Enthusiast

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    I run wow with CPU at 166, GPU 550/1320/920 all day long. Never had a single lock up.

    I think OC settings are a machine by machine thing. Some can go high with no issue, some can't. Depends on each individual build I guess.

    I also play on a laptop cooling pad with a fan, so I'm sure that helps as well.
     
    Deofol, Aug 31, 2010
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    As I said, I've never had a single game lockup with my OC settings, except WoW.
     
    Alienowner, Sep 1, 2010
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    WoW Is a bad behaving game imo, that's why I just ordered 3 x collector expansions for Cataclysm... what ya gona do?
     
    surfxombie, Sep 2, 2010
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