What needs upgrading to increase fps?

[Tsunami]

I discussed breifly with my I.T. guy what you have and your problem. what he says is happening is your main video cannot handle the processing load put on it, that card can only handle one monitor running at 1900x1200, so the cpu has to do extra work to render the 20 inch monitor. he said you should be ok if the 24 in was on one card and the 2x 20 are on the other, because than it will be within spec for the cards. this will take the load off your main card and your cpu. one way to check this is to drop the resolution of the 24in. to the same as the 20in (so they are both at the same lower resolution) and check the performance than. If it gets better than change your monitor config.

the 4850x2 is a beast, I recommended it on another thread as being better than running 2 cards in sli. just make sure it will fit in your case ( it is 12" long) and you have the power supply to run it(650 watts or 1000 watts depending on what wires you have)

[pinotnoir]

I discussed breifly with my I.T. guy what you have and your problem. what he says is happening is your main video cannot handle the processing load put on it, that card can only handle one monitor running at 1900x1200, so the cpu has to do extra work to render the 20 inch monitor. he said you should be ok if the 24 in was on one card and the 2x 20 are on the other, because than it will be within spec for the cards. this will take the load off your main card and your cpu. one way to check this is to drop the resolution of the 24in. to the same as the 20in (so they are both at the same lower resolution) and check the performance than. If it gets better than change your monitor config.

the 4850x2 is a beast, I recommended it on another thread as being better than running 2 cards in sli. just make sure it will fit in your case ( it is 12" long) and you have the power supply to run it(650 watts or 1000 watts depending on what wires you have)

I finally got the 24inch on the main card and the two 20's on the second. I dont know why it was messing up yesterday. It wouldnt give me the option to extend it the other day. I will give it a shot and see if it's still laggy. My next option would be to get that 4850x2 card with 4 dvi outs. I have a nice 750watt thermaltake power supply and should have room in my case. I read its very loud. I am spoiled with my 3870 Sapphire Toxic vapor cooled video cards. If they are making any noise I cant hear it.

[pengwynman]

I plugged in my 20 inch that was in the main card into the second card. Then I spent 30 mins trying to get the settings right in ati's control pannel. I couldnt get them setup right so I went back to the 24 and 20 in 1st card 20 in second. I dont know what the deal is but it would not setup my screens to pass the mouse to each. One monitor was just there and you couldnt access it via the mouse. I will try again but after this last wintersgrasp lag fest I am about ready to bite the bullet and buy a new pc. I cant take this choppy play any longer.

I was reading up on the 4870 1gig ddr5 cards. I dont want to waste the money on two 4870x2 cards. Another option would be to get the 4850's. Would changing my desktop res on the 24inch to a lower setting help? I have it at the 1920x 1200 now.

yeah i actually wasn't paying enough attention to your monitor/resolution setup. the desktop res on the 24 inch shouldn't matter, but what res are you playing wow at? try putting all 5 windows on your main monitor with a low resolution and see what your fps is

[pinotnoir]

I tried the 24inch in the first card and the 20's in the second. Same performance. My game rez is: The resolutions are setup in keyclone for each maximizer section. My side monitors have two blocks that are 1048,840 and my main screen has 1 block thats 1870,1125.

I guess I need a video card upgrade. I wonder if my motherboard is causing problems because my second pci express port is not 16x like the first. I think the second one is half. The q6600 with 8gig ram and moving my wow directory to the raptor should be ok. All my graphics are as low as possible. I'm thinking about getting that 4850x2 with 4 dvi or two 4870 cards.

[spannah]

IMHO

Re-install windows on the faster raptor drive, and install all the WoWs and symlinks on the slower drive.

Why?

Remember folks, the game communicates to your hardware through Windows, basically your OS needs to be fast. WoW will also load reasonably fast if it is not on the system drive - it loads most things at start up and then additional 3d geometry and textures as you move around. Actually it writes very little, if anything, to the HD until you logout or exit the game.

This may not be the root cause, but I think worth a try.

Edit: spelling and grammar.