Zero(?) City Lag - 5 Clients One PC - Your Specs?

I've specced up this instead

Looks good. People with old i7's are reporting 8-9GB of RAM usage and you might find yourself getting capped if you like
higher quality video settings. If you can afford it, I would suggest 4 x 4GB for a total of 16GB.

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Originally Posted by Fenril

Looks good. People with old i7's are reporting 8-9GB of RAM usage and you might find yourself getting capped if you like
higher quality video settings. If you can afford it, I would suggest 4 x 4GB for a total of 16GB.

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I have :) quantity = 2

cheers

I notice a FPS drop in Stormwind, near both of the auction house/banks.

Flying above the city, with 310% flyers I have not yet lost follow.
But the following toons drop enough behind that Grid shows them as out of range.

I'm running:
i7, 920 (stock)
12GB DDR3, 1600mhz
Patriot Torq SSD
GTX 275 Video


Slaves run on rather low settings, medium view distance.
Master runs on slightly higher video settings and maximum view distance.

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Originally Posted by dancook

I have :) quantity = 2

cheers

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Oh haha, looked at it too quick. :)

FWIW, I just upgraded my PC and it made a HUGE difference in Stormwind.

No change - 30" monitor, 8GB RAM

Old PC:
Q6600 (stock speed)
Nvidia GTX 280

New PC:
i5-2500K (stock speed, but may OC after burn in period)
Nvidia GTX 570

On the old PC, I had ALL toons on lowest graphics settings, but with the lead toon on "good" draw distance. With these settings, I would stutter flying over crowded parts of SW and some toons would break follow.

On the new PC, I haven't yet seen how far I can crank up the settings, but so far I have set the draw distance to "ultra" on all 5 and I had ZERO stutter flying over SW now. Framerates stay capped (60 lead, 15 slaves) and task manager shows all cores at around 50-60% utilization. (Old PC had all 4 cores pegged at 100% all the time with 5 toons, regardless of location)

thanks for the info, i'll look forward to the upgrade!

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Originally Posted by dancook

I have the new graphics card, so I guess i'm looking at an i7 950 with 12gb ram? and I should be smooth as a baby's bottom?

It's also raiding, where it matters, than I'm getting sluggish framerates.

I already have SSD.

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Yes and yes. There seriously needs to be a sticky now - All people with Q6600s should consider an i7.

BTW, SSD will not increase your frame rates. They only decrease loading times. [IMO]worthless because loading times in WoW are nil (even in cities), a regular 7200 HD suffices.[/IMO]

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Originally Posted by d0z3rr

Yes and yes. There seriously needs to be a sticky now - All people with Q6600s should consider an i7.

BTW, SSD will not increase your frame rates. They only decrease loading times. [IMO]worthless because loading times in WoW are nil (even in cities), a regular 7200 HD suffices.[/IMO]

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I didn't buy an SSD for WOW :) and SSD is great for many more things.

Can I ask rezident experts for actual difference between I5 and I7? Is the difference really like broadband Vs dialup or more like 1.000000001 > 1?