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Saturday, October 02, 2010 4:08 PM
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FYI for other WOW players that want to replace their old card with one of the new sweet GTX 460 SLI setups... World of Warcraft does not support SLI, what that means = yeah it may or may not work, but it is not desiged or tested to work by Blizzard, so you are on your own. Scouring the Bliz forums I have found some recommended settings (posted by a blue) Vertical sync = off Hardware curser = on They also recommend smooth mouse = off (I don't have this setting) I have Reduce Input Lag = off And video quality set to "High" With these settings I'm still only utilizing one card although my frames are between 40-70. I had to learn the hard way as one card is just not being utilized, if you can prove me wrong I would love it 
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Re:GTX 460 SLI WOW FPS Sadness
Saturday, October 02, 2010 4:12 PM
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Try overclocking your CPU and see what happens.
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Re:GTX 460 SLI WOW FPS Sadness
Saturday, October 02, 2010 4:13 PM
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over 200 frames on my 480 in wow
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Re:GTX 460 SLI WOW FPS Sadness
Saturday, October 02, 2010 4:19 PM
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gtx 470 here, i get 60 fps on ultra, but i got a 4ghz cpu overclock.
Kind of tired of saying this but wow is a cpu intensive game, the only good thing from the new cards is the dx 11 improvements in cataclysm.
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Re:GTX 460 SLI WOW FPS Sadness
Saturday, October 02, 2010 4:38 PM
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Wow can run with full FPS on an 8800GTS
IT's not your lack of SLI that's holding you back. Most likely FSB/RAM/CPU speeds.
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lilpinkfluffybunny
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Re:GTX 460 SLI WOW FPS Sadness
Saturday, October 02, 2010 4:44 PM
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Thats a great point… here is my setup, I recently replaced my failed 9800 GX2 with the GTX 460 SLI setup, as that was the only change giving me lower FPS, I just assumed it was the cards.
Everything is running at stock settings/voltages:
Old Video Card
XFX PVT98UZHF9 GeForce 9800 GX2 1GB (512MB per GPU) 512-bit (256-bit per GPU) GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
Current Video Card:
2 x EVGA 01G-P3-1373-AR GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) Superclocked EE 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card (2 in SLI)
PSU
ABS Tagan BZ Series BZ900 900W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC Patent Piperock Modular Power Supply
Processor:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz LGA 775 Quad-Core Processor BX80562Q6600
Motherboard:
XFX MB-N780-ISH9 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI Intel Motherboard 3-Way SLI Support
Memory:
6gb total
OCZ Reaper HPC 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500)
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Re:GTX 460 SLI WOW FPS Sadness
Saturday, October 02, 2010 5:06 PM
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overclock your CPU. You'll see better performance benefits from CPU upgrades rather than GPU in WoW
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Re:GTX 460 SLI WOW FPS Sadness
Saturday, October 02, 2010 5:25 PM
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agree'd over clock your CPU a bit to 3.6 ghz that'll be the sweet spot for your CPU. You should see a considerable boost in FPS for WOW.
I play on ultra with shadows down to a notch above minimum.
This way i get around 50 fps flying around in northrend and dalaran. however when i turn the shadows up I see a FPS decrease of 10 FPS bare minimum. So definitely over clock your CPU and feed yourself more power!
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lilpinkfluffybunny
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Re:GTX 460 SLI WOW FPS Sadness
Saturday, October 02, 2010 5:45 PM
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Sweet, Thanks for the help! I'll OC and see what we get. If I fry the CPU, i'll replace with a Q9650, that should be the fastest processor my board can handle.
Thanks again everyone!
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Re:GTX 460 SLI WOW FPS Sadness
Saturday, October 02, 2010 7:50 PM
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WoW is also one of the few games that benefit from a high-performance network card. There's so much info flying around when you are near other players, like in a city or raid, that it actually hits the CPU pretty good using onboard NIC's.
One of the few cases that buying one of those "gamer" network cards is actually useful.
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Re:GTX 460 SLI WOW FPS Sadness
Saturday, October 02, 2010 8:11 PM
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Definately OC your CPU. I'm at a stable 4.2 on air and with my 480 I don't get below ~100 FPS on Maxed out settings. I'm usually running in the 190-230 range.
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lilpinkfluffybunny
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Re:GTX 460 SLI WOW FPS Sadness
Saturday, October 02, 2010 8:18 PM
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tet5uo
WoW is also one of the few games that benefit from a high-performance network card. There's so much info flying around when you are near other players, like in a city or raid, that it actually hits the CPU pretty good using onboard NIC's.
One of the few cases that buying one of those "gamer" network cards is actually useful.
TYSM!, you are right about that! I installed "latrix" and significantly noticed an improvement, I just ordered a network card. After the OC and network card install I'll post the results…
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lilpinkfluffybunny
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Re:GTX 460 SLI WOW FPS Sadness
Thursday, October 07, 2010 2:53 PM
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So over the weekend I overclocked from 2.4 to 3.0 and it dramatically increased frames.
I am now running the "Ultra" settings with frames above 74 most all the time and maxing out around 190.
The network card wont fit in the 780i as the video card covers the respective slot on the board.
Either way, if you want high frames in WoW, as they have suggested here, beef up the processor
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Re:GTX 460 SLI WOW FPS Sadness
Thursday, October 07, 2010 9:18 PM
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My setup fly's in wow with GTX460's
Intel i7 930 D0 (running @ 3.8) EVGA X58 FTW3 EVGA SLI GTX460 SC EE 1GB Corsair Dominator 3x2GB DDR3 1600(CMP6GX3M3A1600C7)7-8-7-20 @1.65V WD Raptor 150GB SATA 10KRPM 16MB SATA Corsair 850W TX Series PSU Coolermaster Sniper Corsair H70 LG W2486L 24" Microsoft Windows 7 64
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Re:GTX 460 SLI WOW FPS Sadness
Thursday, October 07, 2010 9:29 PM
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Always best to post the rest of your spec's.
Most of "these" threads result in the bottleneck, or simply under "geared" (might as well speak in WoW terms) Processor.
Glad the o/c went well and your performance is a bit better.
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Re:GTX 460 SLI WOW FPS Sadness
Thursday, October 07, 2010 9:36 PM
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over 200 frames on my 480 in wow
Nope. Try Dalaran. 40fps guaranteed.
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Re:GTX 460 SLI WOW FPS Sadness
Thursday, October 07, 2010 9:46 PM
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Scroll up the the rest of the system is there
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lilpinkfluffybunny
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Re:GTX 460 SLI WOW FPS Sadness
Thursday, October 07, 2010 9:48 PM
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danielxcloud
Always best to post the rest of your spec's.
Most of "these" threads result in the bottleneck, or simply under "geared" (might as well speak in WoW terms) Processor.
Glad the o/c went well and your performance is a bit better.
Scroll up, the thread starts with the computer components
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