Need advice Quad Core or GFX card

[5fingersofdoom]

Hi fellas I have to make a decision to buy either a Quad Core AMD processor or upgrade my GFX from a ati 3650 to a newer model.
My reason is for performance as currently I run 5x5 clients each set on one computer,but i'm getting frame lag and i've got a bottleneck.
Which do I upgrade for pvp Processor or GFX (I have a dual core black edition atm).
Thanks in advance,

[Zal]

I'd suggest getting 9800 GT Geforce graphics card. Might also want more RAM though too if your under 6 gigs.

[5fingersofdoom]

Thanks Zal,I have 8 gigs of memory,as i thought that might be the problem but 5 clients ianst maxing it out,lvls about 3 gig used.
I can't use Nvidia as im on ATI xfire sadly.
But thanks for trying to help

[heffner]

What OS are you running?

I have read that WoW is "CPU Intensive" somewhere (I really don't know if this is true) and you could always tone down the graphics to match your card. So, I would go for a new CPU. I don't really have much else to back up that suggestion though and often changing one thing won't necessarily solve the problem.

Good luck!

[5fingersofdoom]

Thanks m8,its all good information,much appreciated.

[wowphreak]

its probably not the the hardware.

Are yeh loading off of 5 different installations?
Did yeh change the affinity?
did yeh setup maxfps and maxfpsbk?
what rez are yeh playing at?

Wow isnt very graphics intensive upgrading the graphics card probably will get yeh minimal fps increase.

[Farleito]

You should get a quad core... read my other post:

http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/in...ht=#post143371

Just because you get low FPS does not mean it's the videocard. Running 5 clients takes up a lot of CPU time. If you have 8GB of RAM, then you probably have Vista-64. Run the resource monitor. You'll most likely find that your CPU is pegged at 100%.

[5fingersofdoom]

Thanks Phreak ,yes I have done all of those things,running it at absolute minimum gfx settings,and i've checked the other things,thanks for advice.
To Farleito,I have exactly the same problem you had ,bought 2 gfx cards thinking I could XFire them,turns out as you said,wow wont do xfire/sli o.0 real shame.
I will be ordering up 2x quad cores in the next few weeks,and am sure it will sort the problem out for me.
Many thanks m8 and to all who have given me advice,much appreciated.
[I'll post the results here and in your thread Far*].