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It's very likely that WoW will be hitting your cpu limit before GPU. Especially when you throw in a handful of addons. If you have any, consider disabling them all and then rechecking the frame rate. If you see it's noticeably different, renable them one by one until you find the culprit !

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Overclock that CPU and you'll see the frames go up. That's how it is for most games with high end GPUs. I wouldn't be surprised if it gets the same framerate as 1680x1050 at 5040x1050 :lol:

Well, I am running the E8400 3.0GHz Dual Core Intel processor. Correct me if I am wrong here but would it make sense to go Quad Core if games aren't even written to take advantage of Quad Core?

Would going Vista x64 bit be a better option? Will this maybe give me better performance?? Will the game even run at 64bit???

Apologies for all the questions, but yes...I am a little worried I have wasted my money. But from what I hear you guys saying, I haven't?

Well, I am running the E8400 3.0GHz Dual Core Intel processor. Correct me if I am wrong here but would it make sense to go Quad Core if games aren't even written to take advantage of Quad Core?

Would going Vista x64 bit be a better option? Will this maybe give me better performance?? Will the game even run at 64bit???

Apologies for all the questions, but yes...I am a little worried I have wasted my money. But from what I hear you guys saying, I haven't?

QC wont help WoW and for the moment virtually no other game either (over Dual Core).

Vista (in general, 32 and 64) is likely slower than XP for WoW.
All games will run in x64 (in x86 32bit mode) and some will actually take advantage of the 64bit arch, but this is rare. Generally a new system will be x64 and software will very soon really take advantage of it. Most people use x64 for over 3GB ram support, faster HDD access, faster media encoding and generally an all round better PC. However it doesnt really help games as much as youd like at the moment outside of some rare x64 native games (which show 15% FPS increase, which is very good).

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Then Im glad I havent made the transition. There was no point really.

If you want an OS update, wait till Windows 7, consider it a Vista that works.

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Well, it's not that I desperately want an OS upgrade...I just want the best performance from my rig. And if the OS is going to give me that then I will do it. But from what I see, there is no point until W7.

I think you could very well be CPU and Res locked. At lower resolutions you hit ceilings where performance doesn't get better. And you hit ceilings where the GPU doesn't really kick in (based on CPU limits).

Here is my benchmark suite showing the move from an E6700 to an i7 920 (with an NVIDIA 9800GX2). They are the same speed, but the i7 stops the E6700. I doubt anything is taking advantage of Quad Core, but the architecture is much more efficent

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wiki/index.php/WS_and_WTH_Benchmarking_%28Core_i7_920_and_9800_GX2%29

Here is the benchmark suite of the i7 with the 9800GX2 and GTX 295. Again, similar performance at many lower resolutions. Once you hit Surround and Wide Surround, then the GTX295 starts to take off.

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wiki/index.php/WS_and_WTH_Benchmarking_%28Core_i7_920_and_GTX_295%29

Ok, :) Thanks Ibrin,

So to understand what you are saying just so that I don't misinterpret, when you say "but the i7 stops the E6700", do you mean that the I7 kills the E6700? I would assume you meant that. :P

Also, overall from your post, what I took from it is that even though the FPS is low at the moment with the E8400, when I push the RES up to 5040x1050 on the GTX295, I should have no problems?

Or are you saying I should flog the E8400 and get an I7?

I just want to make sure what you are saying. :)

Might be a silly thing to ask, but do you have SLI enabled yet? Sure, the GTX295 is a single card, but it needs SLI enabled between the 2 GPUs on it.

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