Finding the Performance Issue

[Eteocles]

Ah yeah I'm not familiar with widescreen res's lol; couldn't hurt to try though. Also, is there any particular reason you two aren't using SP1? Windows needs all the help it can get, anyone running XP without sp2 is nuts, I don't see why that logic wouldn't apply to Vista ;p

[zanthor]

Results for 3dmark05 - 12,489 3dmarks

[Sarduci]

My Vista Family system (not SP1 yet) is very similar to yours, apart from the Quad6600 and the Raptor drive : I get around 18 000 at 3Dmark5 (not 6) so you should be around there too.
Note : I got this 18 000 both with the 8800GT 512mo and the ATI 3870 512mo, running the free 3dmark05 benchmark.

Q6600 is Intel, he's got an AMD. So not only are we talking different CPU's, but also different motherboard chipsets, BIOS and hardware controllers. Not huge changes, but not minor ones.

[Crucial]

Couple things, epecially with the AMD Phenoms. I had an older Asus motherboard that I put an AMD Phenom 9600 (black edition) into, it was key for me to make sure the BIOS version was updated to get better performance. I also made sure to specifically set the affinity for each wow session to a different processor (or multiple) otherwise only the first 2 of the cores were ever being used it seemed.

[Sarduci]

Ah yeah I'm not familiar with widescreen res's lol; couldn't hurt to try though. Also, is there any particular reason you two aren't using SP1? Windows needs all the help it can get, anyone running XP without sp2 is nuts, I don't see why that logic wouldn't apply to Vista ;p

I am running SP1 on mine. Been running it for a few weeks now.

[Eteocles]

I also made sure to specifically set the affinity for each wow session to a different processor (or multiple) otherwise only the first 2 of the cores were ever being used it seemed.

Aye WoW is only optimized for dual-cores, not quads, have to deal with those yourself.

And yea Sard I was referring to Zanth and Tai :p

[zanthor]

I've got SP1 and am planning on installing it, just hadn't since I reinstalled vista last week.

[Stabface]

Can you run CPU-Z and check that your CPU/memory is running at the expected speeds? Might be something off...

[Sarduci]

Can you run CPU-Z and check that your CPU/memory is running at the expected speeds? Might be something off...

Nothing like finding your SPD's on your RAM autodetect at 133mhz instead of 800mhz.....

[zanthor]

Rams running at 400mhz according to CPU-Z which appears to be standard for PC2-6400.