Setting up new machine - Advice needed please

[wowphreak]

wtf is "Magnetic tip drive fans"

[Phanes]

They are fans have magnets on the tips of the blades and they ride along a path that has opposing magnets. Similar to rail gun theory. With no ball bearings and the tips encased in a magnetic field they run silenty and on almost no power. The magnets are of course very small so as to not disturb any components on the computer.

[Freddie]

TMD fans have tiny hubs because there's no motor there. This produces greater airflow. The manufacturer claims about 30% more airflow compared to ordinary fans of the same diameter. In addition, there's more airflow close to the center of the fan.

It's a very clever idea. It seems remarkable to me that nobody thought of it sooner.

http://www.tmdfan.com/

Phanes, I hope you'll keep posting. You obviously have some useful things to say.

[Owltoid]

Here are some various shots from around Dalaran. My worst performance is 51 FPS at the fountain and my best is 114 at the landing pad. I also feel that my rig is in fact a "top" rig system. Outside of putting in Dual 295s which is pointless for wow and SSDs I am not sure how more power you can fit into a home system.

Nice pics! Not to be a stickler, but are you sure you're on max settings? I don't really see shadows or some of the higher performance settings. I'd still be really amazed if you get 100 FPS with 5 toons in Dalaran with max possible settings.

[Fizzler]

It's a very clever idea. It seems remarkable to me that nobody thought of it sooner.

It is amazing how some things that seem obvious after the fact elude us for so long. Heck it took an Engineer walking his dog in the 40's to come up with velcro. A few years short of the nuke we come up with Velcro.. amazing.

[Phanes]

Owltoid I do not have shadows on everything else is set at max. I forgot when they came out with enahanced shadows I saw an FPS hit so I turned them off. Everything else is set out to max. I can probably squeeze more FPS if I did not have windowed mode on but that is kind of a necessity of multi boxing.

Thanks for the compliment Freddie.

[Owltoid]

Still very impressive numbers!

[Fizzler]

Those are numbers I dream of I like having that much margin. I am quite happy with 45fps outside of Dal but do my best to just avoid having all 5 toons in any capital city at the same time.