Quad core but not impressed.

[Kissell13]

INTEL CORE 2 QUAD Q6600 8MB CACHE 1066 MHZ TOWER COMPUTER WITH NVIDIA 8500GT 1024MB DDR2 GRAPHICS CARD.
500GB 16MB CACHE SATA HARD DRIVE
WITH 20X DUAL LAYER LIGHTSCRIBE DVDRW + 2GB DDR 2 MEMORY .

OS is VIsta 64.

2gb ram and 8500gt are most likely your problems.

[JD50]

INTEL CORE 2 QUAD Q6600 8MB CACHE 1066 MHZ TOWER COMPUTER WITH NVIDIA 8500GT 1024MB DDR2 GRAPHICS CARD.
500GB 16MB CACHE SATA HARD DRIVE
WITH 20X DUAL LAYER LIGHTSCRIBE DVDRW + 2GB DDR 2 MEMORY .

OS is VIsta 64.

2gb ram and 8500gt are most likely your problems.

QFT

Your video card is EXTREMELY low end and with RAM being as cheap as it is right now there is no reason to not have at least 4GB. I believe that you can get an 8800GT for around $200, which is a great price for such a good Video card.

[shaeman]

Excellent - thanks for the feedback so far, it's a great help.

I suppose I was expecting more - my laptop is quite low end (as mentioned). It's onboard nvidia has got to be far less superior than even the 8500gt surely. They both have vista (my desktop has 64), they both have 2gb of ram. I expected this desktop to at least run two wow's as well as my laptop.

Then again it's probably not such a great test that i've performed - On my laptop I have most of the detail set to low. On the desktop it was all set to high. I've not run tweakvista to turn off loads of services etc so will do that. I'll drop down the settings on the secondary wow's to the minimum detail possible. I may even turn down my settings a bit on the main machine. I'll turn of the sound on the secondaries (hadn't even done that).

How do i set the processor affinity? Is this a feature of vista or is it a feature of keyclone?

If it's keyclone I'll get that downloaded to my new pc and try that out.

I'll upgrade the ram as soon as possible, but will hold off on the graphics card for a bit, otherwise I will draw aggro from the wife boss , and that's a fight no 5 man team can win.

Worst comes to the worst I will be able to run two on my main machine and two on the laptop so four boxing at least.













I suppose I need to experiment further - I didn't give this a proper check last night. I'll have to work out how to

[JD50]

But that's the beauty of keeping the same case while you upgrade your PC. To her, it looks like the same PC that's been sitting there for the last couple of years. Little does she know you just put a brand new smoking fast video card in there. What she doesn't know won't hurt her.

[Bollwerk]

It is worth pointing out that the AMOUNT of memory on a video card has almost NOTHING to do with how fast it will perform.

1GB of video ram on an 8500GT is like having the interior room of an Expedition with the engine of a Geo Metro. =)

[shaeman]

Well - I am now far more impressed with quad core.

30 fps was in shattrath. This is running full screen at the highest res my graphics card will handle. As soon as i step outside shattrath the fps doubles. (I haven't even tried it in Azeroth which on my laptop yields higher fps than outlands).

I was failing miserably to compare like with like. My laptop had graphic detail dialed down, was running in a window (run it at full screen and it is gonna be 8-10 fps).

The 8500 may not be the best graphics card, but I suspect I will easily run 3 instances of wow on one machine. (I had two running - both with sound on, both with decent graphic detail and without trying to allocate a wow to another core). it was 30fps on both.

And I've upgraded the ram on the machine to 4gb so the only let down now is the graphics card.

[Drakkun]

I think I've posted it before, but if you're looking for a pure affinity program for windows, I use Mike Lin's SMP Seesaw Pro (http://www.mlin.net/SMPSeesaw.shtml ). I use this program daily with the 3D design and architectural programs at work. I have a dual quad core system and move applications around to any of the 8 cores for maximum performance daily.

[Wilbur]

For your main Use Cores 0 and 2

For Alts use Cores 1 and 3.

^^Because of how the chip is laid out (and what shares resources on low latency buses) this will give you the best performance.

[daviddoran]

I have a Q6600 OC'd to 3.3ghz, and I noticed huge performance improvement by putting the main on 0 and 1 and the alts on 2 and 3. Before I had them all on all cores, and the performance was inconsistent, one core at 100% and the others at like 10-20. Now its even accross the board.

[Havelcek]

For your main Use Cores 0 and 2

For Alts use Cores 1 and 3.

^^Because of how the chip is laid out (and what shares resources on low latency buses) this will give you the best performance.

Probably a stupid question but how are you assigning more than one core per client? Keyclone seems to only allow the assignment of one core...