It's that time again

[JackBurton]

I should get my refund soonish and have been wondering what to upgrade on my system.

I 5 box with a lot of adding loaded. With no addons things are silky smooth. Once I have all my essential addons loaded things are still ok but my eyes notice chop randomly. When I have big city action and addons running the stutter gets almost unbearable. Almost forgot, flying is hard to coordinate too with chains breaking.

i have an intel i7 920 on a an ASUS P76 motherboard with 12 gigs of memory
i have an AMD 7950
Wow is on a SSD

What can I upgrade to fix the addon frame rate stutter issue?

also is my video card being held back by the motherboard by a large margin because of the older AGP express 1 slot on the ASUS P76?

[RSM72]

Can you be more specific about the mainboard?

Is that i920 overclocked or running at stock speed? If not - overclocking it will give you a 20-50% increase in performance at almost no cost (probably a new cooler and somewhat increased power drain).

[JackBurton]

http://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/46396-what-is-bottlenecking-my-system-most

its runing at stock speeds. i do have an aftermarket fan based cooler on it.

[RSM72]

I have been using that board for some time with an i920 and its perfectly possible to run the CPU at 3.6 GHz with some tweaking. Depending on your memorys performance you might even be able to push it to 3.8 or 4.0 - I did not get that stable with a mix of two 3x 2 GB Kits but since you are using a single kit it might work for you.

There is a somewhat usefull guide on overclocking the 920 here: http://www.overclock.net/t/538439/guide-to-overclocking-the-core-i7-920-or-930-to-4-0ghz

EDIT: there is no AGP slot on that board so i'm not sure about your question regarding the 7950 holding you back.

[Meathead]

There is not much too upgrade atm, If you do you wasting your money Maybe go get a real card like nvidia 680 or the new nvidia card that came out a few days ago, its not on sale just yet. The new GTX Titan its a mind blower I will get 2 of them once they get a bit cheaper. 6gig on one card and 2688 shader/stream/CUDA processors smashes anything, basically its 1 card with 1 gpu that = 1 690 2 gpu's....Or you could go water cooling :) its always fun I got my cpu at 4.9ghz with temps at 45 on load :)

[JackBurton]

There any revolutionary new CPUs on the horizon?

[heyaz]

There any revolutionary new CPUs on the horizon?

I found this:
http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/8_core_sandybridge_e_and_6_12_core_ivybridge_e_in_ 2013.html

Rumors of an 8 core sandy bridge E and ivy 6-12 core ivy bridge E something like Q3-Q4 2013. Possibly that will work with existing LGA 2011 x79 gear, which is what I just bought. These are consumer grade. Of course if you want 8-12 core CPUs, Xeons are always there, but quite expensive.

I can't imagine though what the premium will be on those - $1000 for the CPU? $1500? And if it'll "just work".

[JackBurton]

No more replaceable CPU upgrades?
http://www.zdnet.com/intel-preparing-to-put-an-end-to-user-replaceable-cpus-7000008024/

intel planning to wind down discontinue chipset/mobo production?
http://gizmodo.com/5978232/intel-to-stop-making-desktop-motherboards

[Meathead]

Just wait till the end of the year man :) trust me you dont want too use your money yet, I shall be upgrading again in a year or so and its going too be worth it not just a extra core or 10 frames