PC performance issues - system review

[Bollwerk]

The only change I made was upping the view distance to Good.

One one toon or all of them?
Are you using one monitor or more?
What size monitor(s)?

As a comparison, I 5-box on one PC as well:
Intel Core 2 Q6600
8GB RAM (Win 7x64)
64GB Crucial Real SSD C300 (on 6.0 GB/s SATA)
Nvidia GTX 280
30" LCD

I still have to have everything set to the lowest graphics settings and only ONE toon can have "good" view distance when in populated areas. Even so, I STILL end up having around 10FPS in places like Stormwind. Keep in mind too that WoW runs MUCH better on Intel procs than AMD. See my other thread for more info.

[katsurahama]

I ordered 4 more gigs of identical ram. Eight is the max my mobo supports. I also ordered a 60 gb ssd. Thanks for the advice everyone offered. I will change the os to either xp 64 bit or windows 7.

I remember seeing a post on here about installing wow twice and isboxer twice, each on different drives, to speed up performance but i cant find it again. Am i imagining things?

[Sam DeathWalker]

i use the same motherboard on 4 of my computers (the other 2 use the h3m or something its a bit faster).

I use the athlon 2 core 3.2G chip.

My main computer only has 4G (but win7 64bit) cause I ususaly only run one client with it but i have 8G on all the others.

I have run 7 clients in wotlk (30fps max all reduced effects) but my big big edge is that I don't tile, I alt tab so my video card (9800 on 3 and 460 on 3 all 1G video ram) only renders ONE screen (1920 X 1200).


LIke mine, your mother board is old (even though it has the latest nvidia chip .... bleh) its X58 time to be honest. I have a list of recomended items on my web site.

Get a Video card with 1G plus on it and a fast SSD (ozc revo is fair price) that will extend you for awhile but we need to upgrade lol ...

[Sajuuk]

i use the same motherboard on 4 of my computers (the other 2 use the h3m or something its a bit faster).

I use the athlon 2 core 3.2G chip.

My main computer only has 4G (but win7 64bit) cause I ususaly only run one client with it but i have 8G on all the others.

I have run 7 clients in wotlk (30fps max all reduced effects) but my big big edge is that I don't tile, I alt tab so my video card (9800 on 3 and 460 on 3 all 1G video ram) only renders ONE screen (1920 X 1200).


LIke mine, your mother board is old (even though it has the latest nvidia chip .... bleh) its X58 time to be honest. I have a list of recomended items on my web site.

Get a Video card with 1G plus on it and a fast SSD (ozc revo is fair price) that will extend you for awhile but we need to upgrade lol ...

Lemme sum that up for the newbies.

I HAVE THIS THIS AND THIS. GO UPGRADE. GET THIS AND THIS. I'MA PIMP MY SITE.

Dude. Without replacing a bunch of crap. GET MORE RAM. GET 64 BIT windows.