Hmm, 8600GT 256MB to 9800GT 512MB didn't make much difference

[Silya]

Holy schnite...

I just OC'd my Athlon 4400+ (2.2GHz) to 2.53GHz, and my framerate in org on my main window went from 30 to 45.

Not sure why this matters even though the CPU isn't even hardly in use but I guess that clears up a lot of what the issue is. I think between the OC and the moving the clones to 1 CPU helped a ton. Will keep testing.

lol and you didnt believe me ? ffs xD

said it was the cpu like 20 min after you posted... people today.... :cursing:

[oMek]

it IS the cpu, wow is VERY cpu bound, and the fact your older cpu is going to bottleneck your new graphics card...

when you have the task manager open the wows will drop ALOT of cpu usage. when you bring em back to the forground they will go back up.

[elsegundo]

didnt read much of the responses but here's my guess.

1. processor isnt up to par for 5-manning it.
2. your ram is at 3gigs... stil tight. may need more.
3. wow will automatically adjust settings to match (or best use) your new videocard. really. did that to mine when i upgraded.

[Hachoo]

Holy schnite...

I just OC'd my Athlon 4400+ (2.2GHz) to 2.53GHz, and my framerate in org on my main window went from 30 to 45.

Not sure why this matters even though the CPU isn't even hardly in use but I guess that clears up a lot of what the issue is. I think between the OC and the moving the clones to 1 CPU helped a ton. Will keep testing.

lol and you didnt believe me ? ffs xD

said it was the cpu like 20 min after you posted... people today.... :cursing:

Hey I had people saying everything from CPU to BUS speed to Memory to Graphics settings, had to check one thing at a time!

[daviddoran]

Just because you aren't at 99% cpu and ram used, doesn't mean you aren't being limited by them. Efficienty comes into play. I have 8gb of ram, and each of my wow windows uses upwrds of 500mb, and i get great performance (as long as I keep em all on the same video card's monitors, diferent issue there) I turned the graphics all the way down on the slaves, and capped them at 60 (they would each run up to 80-90 fps before) My main is also capped at 60, but with the graphics all the way up, and at a higher resolution, sometimes dips to 40fps, but that's still perfectly fine.

I regularly see my CPUs at 85-95% utlilization accross all 4 cores, spread pretty evenly, while running 6 wows. I'm pretty sure that I am only limited by the CPU speed, available RAM (would love to go to 16gb, just to see if each wow takes up more of it, and the fact that ram is so cheap) and my bus speed. I have a Velociraptor for my main wow, and a regular folder for all of the slaves. I used to run 5 separate folders, but it got tiresome, and when the 3.0.2 patch came out, I didn't want to bother copying 4x, so i moved back to one.

My next upgrade is going to be a motherboard with 1 full PCIe x16 slots, (my second one is x4 electrical) with 16gb of ram, and whatever generation of quad processor is available (unless the 6-8 core ones come out soon). I also plan on using SSDs either for the whole OS and wow, or just for wow, and stick with velociraptor for the basic OS. A stripe of 4 32gb SSDs sounds juciy and ill just back it up to a 160gb SATA hdd every night