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Old 10th May 2012, 00:39   #21
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You should check to see if you are having much HDD activity during periods of low FPS. Could be the pagefile getting hammered. I agree on removing the 9600. Don't see any good coming from that. Could also be bad driver support for 3xSLI on WoW. Try using one or two cards.
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I would run a bench with the 9600 and again without it to see if it's stealing fps or not. I agree that going 12GB ram wont give you much improvement. SSDs are nice, especially with mmos that are constantly loading a lot of textures, but in this case you might be better off with a faster graphics card.
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Ok finally sitting at the game and looking at the resource monitor and EVGA precision monitor here is what im seeing. GPU usage for all 3 cards (they are linked and synced) 34%, CPU is using 4 threads mostly and they hover under 50% (not 100% on this) and Ram usage is 3.4GB/5.9GB.

Im not really seeing a bottleneck here but i am only getting 15-25 FPS in a 25man raid and 59 FPS in SW. So am I missing something here? or should i be getting better FPS/performance from the game?
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Ok finally sitting at the game and looking at the resource monitor and EVGA precision monitor here is what im seeing. GPU usage for all 3 cards (they are linked and synced) 34%, CPU is using 4 threads mostly and they hover under 50% (not 100% on this) and Ram usage is 3.4GB/5.9GB.

Im not really seeing a bottleneck here but i am only getting 15-25 FPS in a 25man raid and 59 FPS in SW. So am I missing something here? or should i be getting better FPS/performance from the game?
What res are you playing at?

Check what the v-Ram usage is at as well
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Aren't the the DX11 features for Wow supposed to be to improve performance?

I'd get a new GPU, 570 or above, possibly keep one of the 260's for Physx (I doubt a 9600 would be much help in games like Arkham City) and overclock the CPU. Then think about an SSD.
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Aren't the the DX11 features for Wow supposed to be to improve performance?

I'd get a new GPU, 570 or above, possibly keep one of the 260's for Physx (I doubt a 9600 would be much help in games like Arkham City) and overclock the CPU. Then think about an SSD.
Dx11 means smoother edges but fps will be lower as its harder for the gpu to compute
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For some reason with a bump in the OC to 3.3 and disabling SLI WOW is running much better. Are there any tweeks that will make it run better before either a WOW patch or a driver update i was averaging over 120 FPS no matter what.

P.S. Wow still does not max out 1 card it is running at less that 40%
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Get rid of a couple of those 260's and the 9600GT and get a new GPU. If you don't need Physx, get rid of all 3 260's.

560Ti's can be bought for £150 but you could wait for a GTX660. Nothing else will be holding back your FPS at the moment.

As a general thought you won't regret buying as SSD. A 128GB M4 is around £90 now and they are fast and reliable.
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Lots of good replies here. I personally have had issues with both sli and cf and never recommend them. I would sell all of the cards and get one new one. A gtx560 ti would be plenty of card and you can get one new for around what your cards are worth on eBay. Then again, I would think 460x3 would be more grunt than even a 560ti?! Could be the sli, try a single card and see if you get the same drop. I agree with OC your processor, its free speed.
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RAM will do nothing for WOW. That 9600 is not helping as a PhysX card, in fact, it will be slower than not having it at all.. lose it... stick it on Ebay and make a few quid.

OCing will help a little, but you really need a GPU upgrade, and there's no option for that in your poll.

Out of all the things in your poll, a SSD will give you the most benefit, but it will also do nothing for WoW slowing down in 25man raids. For that you need a GPU upgrade.

I've seen this before when GPU usage is low, but performance is still rubbish. I used to get the same problem in WoW on my wife's rig using an old 250GTS at 1200P. Game play was horrible, yet only using around 60%. Upgraded to a 560Ti and silky smooth in everything.. inc. battlefield three.
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To confirm WoW does not support SLI in any form. This was asked a few times a while ago if I remember (might have been on another board) so that would explain why your 260 is hurting.
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Thank you for all the advice guys I will work on upgrading the GPU as soon as I can.
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