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CPU under £100 will run HD and Games from stock

ColdAsIce

ColdAsIce

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I currently have the Intel E2140 proccessor overclocked to 3.2ghz but it is unstable. If I run it any lower than 3.2 then large HD content does not run smoothy. So I am kind of forced to keep it at this level.

Crashed twice yesterday running left 4 dead and Tomb Raider Underworld from PC to 32inch TV.

Graphics card is an ATI 3850pro.

When the games are crashing it isn't even a blue screen of death but just reboots the system.

Anyway looks like I am pushing this processor a bit to hard, are there any processors for £100 or less that run at stock and are powerful enough to run these games etc?
 
2160. :confused: I have one and it runs everything perfectly. I'm tempted to suggest that some part of your PC may be damaged, since that CPU should be able to run HD movies and games like that without breaking a sweat with that graphics card.
 
Same as above, i would have thought that your CPU could manage playing HD movies. But then again what hades said the E5xxx CPU's are cracking cpu's or the e7300 if you can stretch your budget!
Good luck
 
SlyReaper said:
2160. :confused: I have one and it runs everything perfectly. I'm tempted to suggest that some part of your PC may be damaged, since that CPU should be able to run HD movies and games like that without breaking a sweat with that graphics card.
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Was fearing that :*(

Maybe I damaged the cpu when overclocking it the 1st time, bleh
 
Your CPU should do everything you ask at that speed. If it's not stable then get it stable! Could be your memory settings or other voltages as well.
 
there's your problem. The memory is either unstable or faulty. Reset mem settings to stock rated settings and re-test. If you still get errors then RMA it.
 
Use a different program/codec pack for HD playback. Some decoders will only run well on a 6Ghz quad core, while better ones will run great on a 2ghz dual core. Try a different codec package, a 2-2.4Ghz c2d should be absolutely fine for pretty much the highest quality x264 available, can easily cope with 90% of the HD content out there.

Check software/mulitmedia forum sections for similar posts, or Hd playback forum somewhere, can't think of one off the top of my head.
 
drunkenmaster said:
Use a different program/codec pack for HD playback. Some decoders will only run well on a 6Ghz quad core, while better ones will run great on a 2ghz dual core. Try a different codec package, a 2-2.4Ghz c2d should be absolutely fine for pretty much the highest quality x264 available, can easily cope with 90% of the HD content out there.

Check software/mulitmedia forum sections for similar posts, or Hd playback forum somewhere, can't think of one off the top of my head.
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Yea currently using VLC and it turned out I had a memory problem which is kind of sorted now. Got a load of life left in this E2140 after all.
 
I can't remember which encoders there are, but something I played a x264 with, ages ago now, it was just jerky and horrible, other x264's were fine, this was on, i think a E6600 at 3.6Ghz or so, it was just ridiculous. Theres several decoders, and several versions of perfectly fine decoders that simply didn't use multiple cores at all so were very laggy. Pretty much anything you download a new version of now should work fine on almost anything. Likewise anything 2Ghz plus and dual core, especially with almost any gpu in the past couple years that has at least some hardware acceleration you shouldn't have any issues and any performance problems are almost certain to be software and not hardware.
 
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