Video Card Decision

[Ualaa]

I was using a 2GB (Sapphire) Radeon 4870X2.
Pretty happy with it, up until I upgraded to the i7 920, 12GB ram etc.
Otherwise same system.
But then slave windows started to freeze on me.

Going to the 275 GTX, none of the slaves are freezing.
It is basically the same power as a 1GB 4870.
DDR3 instead of DDR5, but plays wow as smoothly on the same settings.

Now that they're not freezing, I've upped the view distance on slaves to maximum.
And spell details maximum across the board too.
More then I was getting, on the 4870X2 (with settings down for less freezing).
Same smoothness as I had before on the other card, with settings the same.




Or short version.

Yes, it's overkill for wow.

[Shodokan]

I was using a 2GB (Sapphire) Radeon 4870X2.
Pretty happy with it, up until I upgraded to the i7 920, 12GB ram etc.
Otherwise same system.
But then slave windows started to freeze on me.

Going to the 275 GTX, none of the slaves are freezing.
It is basically the same power as a 1GB 4870.
DDR3 instead of DDR5, but plays wow as smoothly on the same settings.

Now that they're not freezing, I've upped the view distance on slaves to maximum.
And spell details maximum across the board too.
More then I was getting, on the 4870X2 (with settings down for less freezing).
Same smoothness as I had before on the other card, with settings the same.




Or short version.

Yes, it's overkill for wow.

i like the TLDR version