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this is the CPU am thinking about upgrading to as its a simple in and out job from my 1100T hexcore. i like to know what you get with 10 and more stuff going on when am round a lot off players my systems starts to die :( 10boxing (touhg its a lot better now i cut some addons)
Overclocked to 3.8Ghz (disabled turbo, stable even if CPU is undervolted to -0.05V over default, 49-50'C average temp with stock fan on multiboxing load). warrior, priest, and druid now with 2 cores each, the two mages one core each. (only thing I can complain about is the noisy stock fan, it goes loud when CPU is under load).
Getting a solid 60+ FPS on the 3 toons with dual cores... about 55-60 FPS on the other 2 with single core affinity. (screenshot was taken in IF, all toons were running/autofollow when this shot was taken... with lots of players around). I think Vsync is enabled, max graphic settings/effects/distance on Warrior, high settings on the other 5 toons with low distance.
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-edit- I'm going to try upload/share the high-res screenshot later tonight.
That's interesting to hear... 1100T is a multitasking monster with 6 full cores (integer+FPU). Is your CPU affinity per wow instance configured/enabled? I found out this really helps a LOT. Then again, you have 10 toons running... ideally, I read somewhere it's best to have (at the least) one core per wow instance.Quote:
Originally Posted by ebony
-edit- Before I did this upgrade, I was running a Core2Quad Q6600 (mildly OCed @ 2.85Ghz), same setup and video cards. If memory serves right, I was averaging around 22-25 FPS on the three toons that had one core each.... while the two mages (both shared one core) would drop to around 12-15 FPS in IF. (graphics set to "medium" across all toons)
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Originally Posted by lonerider
ya i know what i read i should be laughing even 10 boxing i tryed just doing one core per window but find it better doing 1-2 2-3 3-4 4-5 5-6. at the start i was always maxing out my ram 5 boxing so changed that out and now am using a lot less ram. but as soon as i go over into a good gf setting boom! less then 15fps. and its jumpy and lagging to hell.
Then i was on beta and was funny running really really well so went back to live and removed all my addons but like 6 and so far its been great running about 40-80% cpu load using 1.5gb on my gfxcard and its load is like 40% and ram is 50-60% (ten boxing) but as soon as i change any gfcard setting its just kills my fps and cpu is maxing out at 100%.
even though am not even close to maxing out ram/gpu on my card.
i do play on a full server so players = high load even though its not to bad somtimes i just wish i had that bit more. overclocking the system helps loads but i car't get it stable.
so am thinking its my PSU its a 650w (though box says 750w) Its Name is "power cool" *couth* bad move gfxcard says its needs 650w min and on a overclocked system i think that is whats making it unstable. funny thing is my bother was having big prob's in LFR with low fraps and sceen lag and asked me if i know it could be his psu and he changed it and it was. shame i car't use his but its "Installed" well to test to see if that is the prob. let me know what you think.
am sure its not my gpu its a very nice card still and ash has the same one 10 boxing fine.
I kinda think it's also your PSU... My Ultra 750 (I also don't think it's actually 750W) is probably not also giving enough juice cuz once I start to OC at 4Ghz and upping voltage to normal settings, my video card driver would randomly crash & reset the screen. I know the 8120 processor would have no problems running overclocked to 4Ghz on stock fan as I read user reviews on sites like newegg. But my two GTX-460s are drawing much power on full load, and if the cpu/motherboard sucks a lot of juice, the GFx cards would starve out on power and crash the software. I just tried 9-boxing last night, and man... it's a whole different ball game. I'm no longer getting ultra smooth rendering, still decent, but I think the GFX settings will have to be lowered, and SLI would have to be disabled (which I will try tonight). CPU temps are rising to about 55'C and the core that's running two toons is fully maxed out, I'm averaging 70-90% utilization across all the rest of the cores running one toon each LOL.
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Originally Posted by lonerider
ya av only got the one gfxcard but like i said i ran gpuz and am not even hit half my load. but a cheep psu is not a good move really. so i like see what i get paid and maybe get one shiped in for the weekend i hope this is the prob and its not the cpu my cpu i can get to 3.9 easy and temps are great i use a All on one H2O water cooler but my cpu u don't need a lot off v to get a good speed but i have to keep giving it more and more to get it stable and i know my stoping point on this cpu and i don't get a lot.
Got a Update on this: so i been doing some more tests and i find out am only using like 80% off my CPU when a lot is going on. Running it to 100% but its not staying at 100%. so i was looking into the PSU a bit more and find out the amps on my psu is only 32amps. then i find out my gfxcard needs 43amps so thats a right prob before we start. and its olny a 650w and i need 700w for what am running so am probs hitting a few extra probs. am getting a psu tomz and ill update you :)
Update: ordered a Thermaltake Frio monster-sized CPU cooler from Amazon and it arrived last night. Replaced the crappy stock fan and overclocked to 4.1Ghz (undervolted to -0.025V vs. stock). Temps held to 39-41'C for 9-boxing, very stable. Smooth rendering across all windows... about 45-55 FPS on slaves and close to 60 FPS on my main's window.
SLI with SurroundView still enabled across 3 LCD screens, Main's game window is at 1920x1040 (affinity Core0-1, while all 8 slaves are at 960x520 distributed across 6 remaining cores). One thing to note, if you get a bulldozer 8-core CPU, I would strongly recommended to get an aftermarket CPU cooler that is highly rated for overclocking. CPU utilization is about 50% average on Core0-1, and about 80%-90% on Core2-7.
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Originally Posted by lonerider
wow looking good there :). i have a update as well i changed my PSU i gone over kill ;) so i can get a 2nd gfxcard if needed. 5 boxing is great 10 boxing is not going to happen even though my gxfcard loads seem low. its fine for old raids (any other zone then SW/Org/Tol wpvp) but i am trying to rendor them all at 1920x1080 so thats not going to help probs ill have to do some more testing.
i OCed my CPU to 3.8gz at 1.43v its not going to have anything higher then that. and its very stable runnign at a max off 52c
9-boxing fun:
http://i46.tinypic.com/2mhg0o6.jpg
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Originally Posted by lonerider
Why is the a xmas tree in may? and a very old UI someone anit playing by the rules here ;)