Well, that brings up a good point. I can't figure out what my bottleneck is right now. I get decent performance and I can actually run 5 pretty well (20fps) as long as I keep my graphical settings at bare minimum and run only the 2 or 3 addons I need. This is, of course, dependent on realizing that stepping foot in Dalaran is a death sentence. When I'm raiding solo with my paladin, I notice that my system just gets slaughtered in 25 mans when dps goes all out on a boss. The jumbled mess of spell effects that show up on a boss under heavy attack by a balanced raid is just too much for my system, and I drop down to 5-7 fps as a result. The sad part is, I get the same thing if I drop down my video settings to 1024x768 (EWW) so I don't think my graphics card is the problem.
Here's a link to my computer as I bought it - http://reviews.cnet.com/desktops/hp-...-32609453.html
Since buying it, I've swapped out the power supply for a 1k watt BFG, installed a 8800GTS, and replaced the memory with four 2m sticks of PC2-6400. I'm confused as to where the bottleneck is at this point, although its starting to feel like the answer is "You bought it from Best Buy, stupid!" Anyone have some input on what the problem would be? I'm happy with the performance I'm getting while multiboxing, but feel that it should be capable of keeping up a lot better than it is in raids.
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