Pushing the CPU limits

[confusedtx5]

Screenshots uploaded and going here: Core i7 screenshots. 5box in Stormwind

Whats your voltage at mcmcgee? thats the one that causes heat problems.

[Ellusionist]

Core i7 screenshots. 5box in Stormwind[/url]

Whats your voltage at mcmcgee? thats the one that causes heat problems.

Nice shots. Must be a difference in the chips and/or underlying technologies. Mine's at 85%-ish across all cores while standing in Orgrimmar (actually Orgrimmar would be like Ironforge to you guys). Your GPU(s) may be taking quite a load off your processor, too.

[confusedtx5]

Nice shots. Must be a difference in the chips and/or underlying technologies. Mine's at 85%-ish across all cores while standing in Orgrimmar (actually Orgrimmar would be like Ironforge to you guys). Your GPU(s) may be taking quite a load off your processor, too.


Good point, I hadn't thought of that. Whats the physics like in WoW? Maybe the GPUs doing the physics processing is helping alot?
Maybe try that alcattle? download the latest drivers for you graphics card and check that the physics software is being installed and make sure that the physics processing is enabled (In the Nvidia Control Panel)

[mrmcgee21]

I recently lowered the voltage to 1.25 in the bios which under a load on this 790i mobo is giving me abount 1.2 even sometimes drops to 1.19 even. While running wow in dalaran the processor is reporting about 63-65 C according to nvidia, some cores are as low as 55 but Core0 is around 63-65. My system runs well I was just hoping to be able to play with a little higher graphics I guess. I'm not sure whats causing the extreme heat, I'm also using artic silver myself. I have an apevia case so maybe thats the issue. I was wondering which way did you face the fan with your cooler Ellusionist? I wasn't sure what direction would be ideal when I mounted mine. I really don't want to move it though that thing was rediculously hard to get in there, I had to mount the thing then put the fan on it inside the case because of how my case is shaped.

This is the case I'm using, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811144184 .. maybe the airflow is just really awful in there? Besides that my only guess is I just didnt get a good seat between my heatsink and cpu when I mounted it.

Also ISboxer has a thing that creates virtual files ( ie wtf config files ) for each char, so you can have individual settings on all instances that way without multiple installs.

[Ellusionist]

All of mine are pointed towards the back of the case. And yeah that cooler is a tight fit!

I'll have to look into ISBoxer, too.

[Nitro]

check that the physics software is being installed and make sure that the physics processing is enabled (In the Nvidia Control Panel)

I highly doubt that wow has the ability to take advantage of a physx processor. You have to code specifically for those. I don't think wow even has a physics engine.

[Catamer]

the i7 has 8 sudo cores running at 1/2 speed, you could disable the hyperthreadhing and have 4 cores running at full speed.
may people fall into the trap that they are getting 8 cores at full speed and your not.
for the i7 the cpu power (assuming a 2.4Ghz cpu) is 4x 2.4Ghz or 8x1.2Ghz and many find the 1.2Ghz is a little too slow to run wow properly.

that being said, your processor affinity mask should be set to 255, not 15. 15 is what you would use for 4 cores, 255 is what you would use for 8 cores.
or in binary 1111-1111 ( one bit per CPU )

make sure WoW thinks you can use 8 cores and make sure any addon like AutoHotKey or Keyclone also think you have and use 8 cores.

[Ellusionist]

Just an FYI, the original poster has a Q6600.

[mrmcgee21]

I re-mounted my heatsink last night and now I'm getting about 45C across all 4 cores at idle, 55ish under load, however this is according to nvidia system monitor. I ran speedfan and its saying 39C idle and 49-50 under load so, I'm not sure what to beleive. Either way its not rediculously hot so I'm pretty ok with where its at considering I'm still getting 3.6 out of it.