Anyone using the new Ati 5870 ?

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Hi Slats, If you dont mind my asking what are the general spec's on the rest of your computer? I am trying to find out how much of a jump that 5870 card is.

I am interested in doing something similiar and was considering the 5870, as an upgrade from my 4870x2.
For comparison I have a 4870x2 with a Q9550 CPU (2.86ghz Quad core Conroe) with 8gig of ram and am not really able to run 5 on the one box at 1920x1200 across 2 monitors.

Huh? Not able to run 5? The CPU should be more than enough to handle WoW, and the videocard is faster than my 8800GTX. Are you using an SSD to host WoW? That might be the answer to performance problems for you.

For reference, I'm using an i7-965EE, 12GB ram, 8800GTX, and WoW on a cheap 32GB SSD.. and I have no issues running 5x WoW instances across 2x 1920x1200 24" displays. I do plan on upgrading to the 5870 2GB version when available and adding a 3rd Dell 2408 1920x1200 display.

[Zzyzxx71]

there are many rumors about the "Radeon HD 5870 2GB" card, but I can't find it anywhere.

2GB are supposed to give a performance increase.

http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/a...unting-793024/

Do a search for "5870 Six" - that's the one I'm holding out for.

[Fuzzyboy]

Huh? Not able to run 5? The CPU should be more than enough to handle WoW, and the videocard is faster than my 8800GTX. Are you using an SSD to host WoW? That might be the answer to performance problems for you.

For reference, I'm using an i7-965EE, 12GB ram, 8800GTX, and WoW on a cheap 32GB SSD.. and I have no issues running 5x WoW instances across 2x 1920x1200 24" displays. I do plan on upgrading to the 5870 2GB version when available and adding a 3rd Dell 2408 1920x1200 display.

Are you running all your wow clients at 1920*1200 or just one and the rest at 800*600? But yes, you understood me correctly - when running 5 WoW clients at 1920*1200 (1 maximized on primary monitor, rest downsized on secondary), I'm barely getting 10fps in dalaran - and I just tried reinstalling Win7 and doing the powerplan-fix to no avail :|

Benchmark results are like theyre supposed to be, so I'm very puzzled! Any ideas?

[Fuzzyboy]

Make that 8-10fps on slaves - in Stormwind. And 20-30 on main. That's the same as I was getting on my 8800GTX, very weird...

[Fuzzyboy]

Ugh, just did some more testing. 5 clients at 1920 * 1200 - with all video effects turned down to lowest possible setting, i'm getting 16-18 fps on background clients in valliance keep - and thats with all add-ons off maxfps set to 50 maxfpsbk set to 30. Can anyone please confirm that they're able to run 5 clients on the same PC in dalaran at reasonable FPS - with all clients at 1920 * 1200?

[Fuzzyboy]

Still troubleshooting here - I'm getting a 3dmark vantage score of 17668 from my system. If anyone with a comparable hardware setup could comment I'd be very happy

[Fuzzyboy]

Ok I don't know what made the difference, but I seemed to get the problem solved. What I did was:

1) Update directx
2) Set processaffinity to 255
3) Set all clients video settings to "good"
4) Install physx (...)

Now I'm running so smooth it's a pleasure :-D

[Zzyzxx71]

Ok I don't know what made the difference, but I seemed to get the problem solved. What I did was:

1) Update directx
2) Set processaffinity to 255
3) Set all clients video settings to "good"
4) Install physx (...)

Now I'm running so smooth it's a pleasure :-D

Just curious - why would you install Physx with an ATI card?

[Fuzzyboy]

I didn't want to (that's why the ...) was there - it was 3dmark06 that installed it - I just listed it for reference :-)

[BobGnarly]

Have you had any luck with a packed wintergrasp with say 100 people all in the same area? My rig runs most things great, but that just kills it. I've been of the opinion that wow is cpu bound, so I was guessing that I needed to overclock my CPU to help, but this talk of the 5870 running well there has piqued my curiosity.