1900x1200 gaming rig

[Freonor]

Hi guys!

I've read the recommended rig sticky post, but I found it to be a bit of a joke.

Currently I'm running a 4850 e6850 4gb 800mhz 5-5-5-15 ram on a ud3r mb.

I get good performance, but not smooth enough. I game on a 24" 1900x1200 monitor. I wonder if anyone is raiding 25 man instances and have fps constantly at 40+. Even during the wild aoe.

My system runs great, but when 25 ppl are running around shooting spells left and right, and 20 elementals spew fire and whatnot in addition to a boss breathing fire my fps drops to 20ish. Sometimes closes 10.... Not good!

So anyone gaming SMOOTHLY in 25 man raids? What rig are you running?

Edit: Forgot to add that i have everything on full except view distance (half) and multisampling = 1

[hreddie]

Mine does not seem to alter much in 25 man raids drops to around 25-30 when it goes crazy but still smooth, but i do suffer in Dalaran does drop to about 20-25 fps sometimes even less but that probably down to lag more than fps if you know what i mean.

Im running at the mo a stock q6600, with 4 gig ram, Asus P5 mobo, 8800 ultra and 4 x 74 gig raptors - strip raided oh and also 1650 x 1080 on a 22" widescreen.

Settings at max.

[surodat]

And your video card is...?

[elsegundo]

lower your resolution. lower your graphics quality. not rocket science.

[Kalos]

Hi guys!

I've read the recommended rig sticky post, but I found it to be a bit of a joke.

Currently I'm running a 4850 e6850 4gb 800mhz 5-5-5-15 ram on a ud3r mb.

I get good performance, but not smooth enough. I game on a 24" 1900x1200 monitor. I wonder if anyone is raiding 25 man instances and have fps constantly at 40+. Even during the wild aoe.

My system runs great, but when 25 ppl are running around shooting spells left and right, and 20 elementals spew fire and whatnot in addition to a boss breathing fire my fps drops to 20ish. Sometimes closes 10.... Not good!

So anyone gaming SMOOTHLY in 25 man raids? What rig are you running?

Edit: Forgot to add that i have everything on full except view distance (half) and multisampling = 1
You're going to need a more powerful graphics card or lower graphical settings in those busy areas at that screen resolution. Either drop some settings, or upgrade the card.

The Recommended Hardware thread is a joke on the high end; it isn't designed for such tastes, just to help people with pretty poorly systems patch and upgrade thier rigs into a playable state with normal medium settings, it is redundant on the higher levels.

[Freonor]

And your video card is...?

Read my post again

lower your resolution. lower your graphics quality. not rocket science.

Thanks for the nice constructive criticism. It's not a question of how I get it to run smoothly. It's what HW people are running 1920x1200 smoothly....

Mine does not seem to alter much in 25 man raids drops to around 25-30 when it goes crazy but still smooth, but i do suffer in Dalaran does drop to about 20-25 fps sometimes even less but that probably down to lag more than fps if you know what i mean.

Im running at the mo a stock q6600, with 4 gig ram, Asus P5 mobo, 8800 ultra and 4 x 74 gig raptors - strip raided oh and also 1650 x 1080 on a 22" widescreen.

Settings at max.

Huge difference in resolution mate. Not comparable.

You're going to need a more powerful graphics card or lower graphical settings in those busy areas at that screen resolution. Either drop some settings, or upgrade the card.

The Recommended Hardware thread is a joke on the high end; it isn't designed for such tastes, just to help people with pretty poorly systems patch and upgrade thier rigs into a playable state with normal medium settings, it is redundant on the higher levels.

You think the gfx card is the bottleneck? I'm probably dropping another one in anyway to CF. Should then resolve the problem. And I'm probably clocking my cpu to 3,4 or 3,6.

What I wanted was people running 1920x1200 at 40fps+ in 25 man raid in combat to post their rigs, so I could tell what would be sufficient.

[elsegundo]

people can run 1920x1200 smoothly in many hardware settings. i gave you the easiest resolution to your problem.

[rkriekle]

Read my post again



Thanks for the nice constructive criticism. It's not a question of how I get it to run smoothly. It's what HW people are running 1920x1200 smoothly....



Huge difference in resolution mate. Not comparable.



You think the gfx card is the bottleneck? I'm probably dropping another one in anyway to CF. Should then resolve the problem. And I'm probably clocking my cpu to 3,4 or 3,6.

What I wanted was people running 1920x1200 at 40fps+ in 25 man raid in combat to post their rigs, so I could tell what would be sufficient.


This probably isnt going to help you but here is what HW I have to run > 60fps with 2x multisampling and every single setting maxed including shadows and I run at 1900x1200. All that really matters in my setup is:

q6600 quad core cpu @ 4g
3 x nvidia 280gtx (tri sli)
8g ocz ddr3
vista 64bit

I have played around with clock speeds to determine what wow needs more for higher fps and it all came down to cpu speed. Even going from 3.6g to 4g gave me an average of 10+fps more. Getting an extra vid card for CF will not do anything! WOW isnt programmed to use CF or sli, I have confirmed this as I get identical fps using 1,2 or 3 of my vid cards in sli or tri-sli. Whats your cpu currently clocked at, or is it stock?

[Freonor]

This probably isnt going to help you but here is what HW I have to run > 60fps with 2x multisampling and every single setting maxed including shadows and I run at 1900x1200. All that really matters in my setup is:

q6600 quad core cpu @ 4g
3 x nvidia 280gtx (tri sli)
8g ocz ddr3
vista 64bit

I have played around with clock speeds to determine what wow needs more for higher fps and it all came down to cpu speed. Even going from 3.6g to 4g gave me an average of 10+fps more. Getting an extra vid card for CF will not do anything! WOW isnt programmed to use CF or sli, I have confirmed this as I get identical fps using 1,2 or 3 of my vid cards in sli or tri-sli. Whats your cpu currently clocked at, or is it stock?

It's currently at stock, but i'll probably see if I can get it stable at 3,6 once I got the time to play with the voltages. I've had it on 3,6, but it wasn't stable enough. I did run gpu-z and my load is up in the 80s and 90s when it's stressed. I also ran the system monitor that vista comes with and my cpu isn't under more than say 50-70% load.

[Clavina]

Are you running in windowed mode or full screen? I know I can get at least an extra 10-20fps just by going to full screen.

[Artad]

I do, I run a 9800GTX atm (took the second one out of my current rig to put a water block on it). I also run Vista 64 with 4gb of DDR3 ram and a QX9650 cpu.

I have a GTX295 sitting in a box waiting to go in as well.

I would perhaps see about putting Cat 9 drivers on and a second 4850 may help but not too sure about CF as I have been an NV fan for years now.

[Freonor]

Just a small update. I'm really puzzled. My fps is still roughly the same and i'm borrowing a gtx 280 and have clocked my cpu to 3,6... Only thing left would be ram, but I have 4 gb at 800mhz at 555 15. Should be fine...

@Artad: Are you running 60+fps in dalaran? I'm at 25-35

[Wintrow]

Freonor,

I believe his CPU is a quad core. Although wow isn't really multi-threaded some gain should be noticed by the OS offloading some OS-processing to other cores.

Kalos should have the low-down on how much there is to be gained in the game from going quad...

[Kalos]

Freonor,

I believe his CPU is a quad core. Although wow isn't really multi-threaded some gain should be noticed by the OS offloading some OS-processing to other cores.

Kalos should have the low-down on how much there is to be gained in the game from going quad...
I hope you weren't hoping for any hard numbers from me :grin:

It should help, especially with the natural backlog of background tasks of a busy OS, and especially with SLI. Could easily buy as much as a 20% boost.

I'd break the SLI completely and run with a single card. WoW is known for occasionally getting worse performance under SLI than it would if there had simply been a single card. Call it diseconomies of scale or what have you, but SLI is usually fairly bad for this game.

[Sturm]

Can only agree here. SLI or CF wont do alot of good compared to a faster CPU.
I am currently running on a T2300 (ancient I know) with a X1600 gfx. It stresses my CPU madly, but the gfx stays within normal temps.

I would recommend u get your CPU up to 3,7-3,8ghz and also I had a major increase in fps going from 1gb ram to 2gb in XP. Maybe more ram could help aswell.

I am building my rig around the i7 with 12 gb and a gtx295. Wonder how it will perform tho. O.o