Upgrade CPU or get another vid card?

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DaMaDo

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I have the system in my sig.

I just got an apple 30 inch cinema and in world of warcraft at 2560x1600 I'm getting 29 FPS...with a lot of people on screen and spells etc it dips to 19 fps..

When I was at 1600x1200 on a 20 inch, I was running at 55-60 FPS

I'm wondering what I should do....upgrade processor or go SLI? After spending for this monitor, I'd rather just do one or the other =/ I'm not sure what's limiting my FPS now though.
 
Your cpu, ram, and gpu is fine. You need SLI for those super high resolutions One question though, how the hell do you read the game text and buttons when playing with such a high resolution? Some games dont even have the option to change the text/button size and it like renders high resolutions useless.
 
GPU is your limiting factor. even with SLI i dunno if youll be able to run htat insanly high reso
 
Yeah, the GPU is what's holding you back. Playing on that monitor must be orgasmic..or something close.
 
Ah....I turned the in game multisampling from 4x to 1x (I forgot I had that enabled), and turned full screen glow effect off and I'm back to 50-60 fps....if I get the SLI setup going, will I be able to enable that again?

Reason I'm asking is because of this review on Hardocp. SLI didn't do anything in WoW, but it could have been CPU limited by resolution but it could maybe make a diff at 2560x1600?
 
if I remember correctly I don't think WoW has functionality to take advantage of SLI. It's been a while since I read that on the WoW forums and i've been drinking tonight so that may no longer be true. But it's still worth your time to verify that WoW will use SLI before you drop a few hundred bucks on a second vid card.
 
its hard to say if SLI will help your particular case (youre running at a resolution 2x that of the hardocp review and a google search on WoW and SLI was fruitless nevermind the fact that youre running at such a godly resolution) i suggest starting a new thread on "SLI and WoW" for other people's experience with SLI and WoW.

personally i would wait for the 512mb gtx to come out and see if it does come with the 550+ mhz core..

if you have the money the new nforce4 chipset is nice: http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2589&p=10 improved video performance with and without SLI
 
heero884 said:
its hard to say if SLI will help your particular case (youre running at a resolution 2x that of the hardocp review and a google search on WoW and SLI was fruitless nevermind the fact that youre running at such a godly resolution) i suggest starting a new thread on "SLI and WoW" for other people's experience with SLI and WoW.

personally i would wait for the 512mb gtx to come out and see if it does come with the 550+ mhz core..

if you have the money the new nforce4 chipset is nice: http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2589&p=10 improved video performance with and without SLI
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Bah. I dont think the numbers are worth replacing a mobo for. Most of us have the a8n-sli premium so the difference is not much. Seems nice for a new build but thats about all.
 
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