580 GTXs and dual boxing.

[jstanthr]

there is a bit of difference between the 480 and 580, nothing that would make me replace a 480 though. wow has always been more cpu limited,

[jstanthr]

to clarify, i was running 2 gtx280's in sli on 2 24" monitors (plugged to 1st card) that is what gave me max performance, i had pretty much everything maxed on main and stayed around 55-75fps at all times, and had 4 slaves clipped to 15-25 on second monitor. this was done on an i7 920 oc'd to 4.0. i tested the 480's and the noise wasn't worth it on my gaming rig so they got sent to the folding box, the 580's are what the 480's should have been imo. they are awesome cards, the only thing that would help me any imo would be a 6core i7 and that is in the future still. as far as the single most upgrade that provided me with best bang for the buck was when i switched from standard hdd's to 2 ssd's in raid0 that was amazing, it reminded me of the boost when i got my first discrete gfx card.

Just my 2 cents

[Zappy]

Some more info. My 2nd 580 finally arrived and with these new cards, you can leave SLI enabled with any performance hits.

Currently I'm running everything maxed on Ultra except no AA and have all 5 instances set to run 60FPS FG and BG. I typically see 60FPS everywhere except zones with loads of people, then it will drop down to 30-40.

I tried with higher AA, and with 4xAA enabled on my main, most of the time, I would see a solid 60FPS, but when changing into new zones, my FPS would drop to 15-20. I'm guessing this has to do with the amount of memory on these cards, as after I active swapped between all windows, the frames will jump back up.

For 5 boxing, these new fermi cards will eat just about everything you can throw at them.

[MiRai]

Some more info. My 2nd 580 finally arrived and with these new cards, you can leave SLI enabled with any performance hits.

Currently I'm running everything maxed on Ultra except no AA and have all 5 instances set to run 60FPS FG and BG. I typically see 60FPS everywhere except zones with loads of people, then it will drop down to 30-40.

I tried with higher AA, and with 4xAA enabled on my main, most of the time, I would see a solid 60FPS, but when changing into new zones, my FPS would drop to 15-20. I'm guessing this has to do with the amount of memory on these cards, as after I active swapped between all windows, the frames will jump back up.

For 5 boxing, these new fermi cards will eat just about everything you can throw at them.

This is good to know, I personally plan on picking up 2x 580 GTX's in the next coming months sooner than later.