My new 3,000$ setup & its problems.

[Trowabarton756]

Yes, make sure you remove SLI. It doesn't offer any compelling benefits (and in fact probably slows things down, among other problems) for WoW.

I dare say it because Vista isn't good for much else but you MIGHT want to try switching to Vista and seeing if that helps out at all. It handles multiple monitors and DirectX much better than XP does and should, in theory, offer far better framerates.

There is no reason

1 Video Card 1 Monitor
4xWoW Stacked
Frames: 90-100fps
CPU Usage: 65-70%

should turn into this when you DOUBLE the amount of video card power.

2 Video Cards 4 Monitors
1 WoW Per Monitor
Frames: 15-25fps
CPU Usage: 35-45%

I mean, I assume you are bumping up the resolution and all but still.... this speaks more of a driver issue than anything else.

Well regardless of what he has in the video part of WoW, wouldn't keyclone maximizer resize everything? And power supply like someone said earlier could factor in.

[Bollwerk]

I'm going to agree with Xzin here. Using 2 video cards and 4 monitors, you're best off with Vista. And as other people have said, turn off SLI and remove the SLI bridge between the tops of the 2 cards. SLI only works properly with a single monitor. I am 99% sure the power supply has nothing to do with his problem. If it was the power supply, he would have a different problem.

[Lyonheart]

i made a post about this.. i want to run 3 now ( 4 later ) with my 2 ATi 3780 cards. they are in crossfire.. so as with SLI.. i take the crossfire bridge off ? Right now my PC does not see the 3rd motitor.

[Bollwerk]

i made a post about this.. i want to run 3 now ( 4 later ) with my 2 ATi 3780 cards. they are in crossfire.. so as with SLI.. i take the crossfire bridge off ? Right now my PC does not see the 3rd motitor.

Correct. SLI and Crossfire should only be used for a single monitor setup.

[Bravo]

I don't have the extra 8800 that you've got, but I had no clue my guys would be struggling to get through Shattrath

I had the same problem with the same setup until I OC'd my q6600 to 3 ghz, this greatly helped. Now I don't cringe when I have to turn in dailies

[Bollwerk]

I don't have the extra 8800 that you've got, but I had no clue my guys would be struggling to get through Shattrath

I had the same problem with the same setup until I OC'd my q6600 to 3 ghz, this greatly helped. Now I don't cringe when I have to turn in dailies

I had problems in Shatt also until I upgraded from 2GB to 4GB of RAM.