I used to play in the state tournaments for Brawl, won about three matches until I got eliminated by the state champions. Just played it again with my bro, and I defeated 4 enemies on Cruel Brawl. Regardless of how impossibly hard that mode is...
I've been to one tournament, and it was a local one held by a friend of mine. I won the first round, then in the second round, wouldn't you know it, I had to face the guy who taught me everything I knew about Smash Bros. In Melee, he's one of the best Marths in the country. Needless to say my winning streak ended at 1.
Hm okay. I remember back awhile reading about OCing with utilities vs the bios and some games having this side effect. There's a function in Windows (QueryPerformanceCounter - I believe this is the one) that in Windows 7 I guess was changed by MS to work certain timings and FPS in various games that use this function based off of raw clock speed. When OCed from the bios, it's calibrated on boot with Windows but with some utilities I guess can screw with it and the timing goes out of whack for software that use whatever functions involved. I've never personally experienced it, I don't have Skyrim to test but I've read that running bcdedit /set useplatformclock true will force Windows to use the platform clock as your performance counter and resolved it for people. Though, idk if there's any hidden side-effects. I'm sure you know this already, but just thought I'd throw it anyway since I find it interesting.
Using the platform clock is impossible in my case, as I run a multi CPU setup the motherboard provides a separate clock chip (APIC). Though now that I think about it, I don't know how Overdrive works with - or even if it's intended for - two CPUs. Although, I really don't want to go into my BIOS; the thing is an absolute mess.
Well shucks to that then. Separate clock chip? So this isn't like a dual socket motherboard for two Xeons or whatever? Or is it and I've not heard of whatever fancy application/setup you have, because that's likely possible lol.
Opterons (2x 6348); it's an AMD board. Overdrive is the stock AMD Overlocking tool, which turns out not to have multiprocessor support. One trip to the BIOS later, my CPUs now actually run at the same clock speed, which is probably a good start. Now to test if that actually fixed the problem. Honestly the setup is really sub-par for gaming, it's more to do with all the other nonsense I end up running on this rig. It used to be my home server, until I stuck 780 in it.
I leave my parts at default settings. Its a good balance of performance and longevity. Plus i lost a grounding pin and i think that might be a problem if i do OC.
Ah okay I see, for the most part. Thanks for specifying; you've given me more stuff to read . Nitty gritty hardware details can go over my head a bit, though conceptually I get it, but it's still fun to learn. Worst comes to worst you could always do some protein folding or somethin'...for science! x3
The Ultimate Warrior has passed away. Genuinely shocked by that. Still seemed full of life at Wrestlemania and Raw the other night. Feels like it was a farewell weekend for him now
I actually don't like most things people label as being cute. They just usually range from uninteresting to distasteful.
