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    LOL of the day.... Blizzard checker says 7811 too weak to run WOW.

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Falundir, Aug 17, 2008.

  1. Falundir

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    Thoughts =)
     

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    LOL! *** is up with that
     
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    Power savings are probably in effect making the hardware checker test you at 1GHZ or whatever the min speedstep is for the P8400.
     
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  4. Falundir

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    It was actually plugged in with everything at max. Not to mention the min specs required for WOW are insanely low, hence the popularity.

    # Intel Pentium® III 800 MHz or AMD Athlon 800 MHz
    # 512 MB or more of RAM
    # 32 MB 3D graphics card with Hardware Transform and Lighting, such as NVIDIA® GeForce™ 2
     
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    ***?!


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    Dang - I guess I need to bring home an HP Proliant G5 Dual Quad-core Xeon server to play WoW?

    Make sure Vista is set to "High Performance" in the battery icon...
    If running Vista x86, try using RMClock, using the "Max Performance" profile, and lock it to max multiplier.

    Other than that, dang, that's like something else!


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  7. Falundir

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    It does run of course, just an error in the detection software that I found humorous.
     
    Falundir, Aug 18, 2008
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    My guess is that WoW was written in the P4 days when clock speeds were artificially inflated, because thats just dumb.
     
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    Medal of Honor Pacific Assault Says the same thing on my computer, I'm just guessing it is only detecting 1 core of the processor, maybe?

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    BlackSheep5, Aug 18, 2008
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