6600GT ---> 8600GT and no difference
First off, hi you all, been a while I know. I like what you did with the place
Anyways, I went from an AGP mobo to an Asus A8N-SLI SE with a PCI-e 8600GT, kept my old CPU, an A64 3000+, and have 1.5GB of ram in it, it's ddr-400 running in dual channel. I reinstalled Windows XP 32bit because I was running x64 edition but I didn't notice any difference there either. Figured with a clean install on XP I should see a huge difference. Well I see NO difference. I installed the latest chipset drivers, the latest car drivers, and nothing. To top it all off, the only game I play is WoW. This game is 3 years old already and it wasn't that taxing to begin with.
I was expecting to see a constant 60FPS with all eye candy turned all the way on, but i'm not kidding you, I get crap FPS, 10-15 in cities, 2-5 in raids, and i'll get to the 50s when I'm all alone.
This seems completely unacceptable to me and I'm so disapointed. Advice?
Anyways, I went from an AGP mobo to an Asus A8N-SLI SE with a PCI-e 8600GT, kept my old CPU, an A64 3000+, and have 1.5GB of ram in it, it's ddr-400 running in dual channel. I reinstalled Windows XP 32bit because I was running x64 edition but I didn't notice any difference there either. Figured with a clean install on XP I should see a huge difference. Well I see NO difference. I installed the latest chipset drivers, the latest car drivers, and nothing. To top it all off, the only game I play is WoW. This game is 3 years old already and it wasn't that taxing to begin with.
I was expecting to see a constant 60FPS with all eye candy turned all the way on, but i'm not kidding you, I get crap FPS, 10-15 in cities, 2-5 in raids, and i'll get to the 50s when I'm all alone.
This seems completely unacceptable to me and I'm so disapointed. Advice?
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Try upping the cpu speed and see if that makes any difference.
The 3000+ is a good single core CPU. I have had Athlon XP 2800+ with a 6600GT run BF2 on Medium settings... I am pretty sure WoW isn't as hard on the graphics as BF2 is, but I could be wrong. I am hunting down some performance charts of a 6600 with a base 3000+ A64 CPU, I have it here within my masses of info somewhere....
Kanez used to get 60-80 ppm on short-media, but now he upgraded to a faster computer and only gets 3-5 ppm on icrontic.
so you're saying i should get a new cpu or that there's a problem somewhere else?
To answer your last question sort of indirectly,
When I bought my 7800gt from Sledge I was still running that 3000+ overclocked to 2.2ghz. I told one of my bosses (a hardcore hardware guy) about my fantastic upgrade, and he told me (in his opinion most likely) that getting that card would improve my performance, but it would be a waste sticking it beside my single core 3000+ because the video card would be "thirsty" waiting for the cpu to send it stuff. Obviously I fell for his propaganda and I went and bought myself an Opteron 165 (it was only later that I found out that my new video card would put out an amazing amount of heat and I would barely be able to overclock the Opty165..a lesson well learned )
I hope these guys can figure out a solution
Your old proc was 2ghz and your new one is still 2ghz but with an additional core. Google tells me that WoW isn't SMP compatible/enabled. IMO, it's like you never changed procs.
might be worth getting 2 1 gig sticks and run it in duel channel, that should bump up the performance a bit.
this is on my Sony SZ320P
1.8 core duo 2 gigs of ram 7400 128 meg card
every thing is maxed out