Multiboxing Hardware Science!

[remanz]

sorry for hijacking the thread a bit.

Did they add new graphics changes with recent patches ?

My machine used to handle Org valley of strength ok upon cata lanuch (40-50 on main , capped at 30 fps on slaves). I was ok all the way until 4.1. Then valley of strength got pretty bad. My framerate dropped to 15-20 on all windows of wow. My hardware config did not change, nor the graphic settings.

Another obvious example is at the gundrak's snake boss chamber. With all those little snakes crawling on the ground, my framerate dips dramatically. It wasn't the case when I did it in 4.0.x

I am thinking about upgrading to GTX580, currently using the mega fail GTX 295. But I was monitoring the GPU usage with afterburner. It never exceeds 60% on both GPUs, even when my framerate is struggling. Does it mean the card never operates at full capacities ? If that's the case, would upgrading the card help at all ? Or this is more CPU bound.