[wow] GTX550 good enough?

[Blubber]

I'm 5 boxing using a GTX460 with 768MB VRAM, the card is doing great, I can run all my characters at high GX settings. However, after a while of playing one of the slaves start to show GX glitches, after a bit of fiddling with the GX settings and GPUZ I concluded that the VRAM is filling up. So I turned down the settings a bit, and now it's running ok.

Problem is, I don't really like how the game looks with these settings, so I'm looking for an upgrade. I'll probably go with a 2GB model, but the question is really, is a GTX550 enough to run 5 instances of wow at high settings. Or should I go with a 560. I use this PC only for boxing, so I'm a bit reluctant to buy a really high-end card. However, I do want it to look good and run well.

Any advice is appreciated.

[Khatovar]

Why do you need all 5 instances to run at high settings? I only ever run the master at high settings, since I'm never even looking at the slave screens for more than a few seconds. Even though my cards can easily handle more, I run all my slaves at the most minimal settings and capped at like 15 FPS.

If it's for swapping, you can readjust the settings on swap through a macro built into your swap key.

[Blubber]

It's for swapping, I tried it with a macro, but that increases the time to swap, also my clients started crashing.

[Ashley]

I also don't see the point in running all windows on high settings except for projected textures (so you can see rings of frost) and view distance.

[MiRai]

You would be downgrading because a GTX 460 is more powerful than a GTX 550 Ti.

For reference, 5 clients using the high preset and DX11 can use up to 2GB of VRAM.

[Sam DeathWalker]

ya 550 is downgrade you need 560 to up. and 2G is better.

I run full screen adn alt tab between instances, its blazing fast.

There is some discussion about this here:

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=44505&page=7

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Within one major version of NVidia (and ATI) cards and sometimes two major versions, the higher the last two numbers are is what tells you the ballpark performance rating.

Examples:
NVidia 480 > 470 > 460
NVidia 460 > 550
NVidia 470 > 560
ATI 5870 > 6950
etc.

Generally, these charts hold true: http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2011-gaming-graphics-charts/Gamer-Index,2673.html

There are caveats people will snipe but that's generally a good gauge of where they rank.

[Ualaa]

Or this chart, also on Tom's Hardware: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fastest-graphics-card-radeon-geforce,3085-7.html