What needs upgrading to increase fps?

[pengwynman]

I changed to the raptor and will see how it does. I have my big screen and 1 side plugged into my main card. I didnt think about plugging my two side monitors into my second card. I will give this a shot. My game runs pretty smooth until a bunch of stuff is going on. For instance, wintersgrasp can get very choppy when there are a lot of people fighting at the base. All my characters have their video settings turned down to the minimum. I was thinking my weakest link was the video cards too. These cards were great when I purchased them. It was before they came out with the new stuff. I could overclock the cpu but I am not clear on how thats done. My heatsink is a very nice zalman and Ishould be fine overclocking. I just dont know what to change in the bios to do it.

if you want to oc it, just google "overclocking guide" and you'll get a bunch of helpful guides you can follow. there's kind of an art to it, i really enjoy trying to get that extra performance boost out of my system.. and oc'ing my q9550 really improved my fps in most areas. pre-oc my main would sit around 40 fps while questing in northrend, now the only place it drops below 50 is in dalaran. i agree though that the video cards could be a weak link, not necessarily just the performance of the cards themselves, but issues with running 2 of them separately with different instance of wow *shrug*