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Worth upgrading a 5870 (for Wow)

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I have quite a nice spec machine with a 5870 Graphics card in it but for some reason Wow FPS is terrible (I am playing eyefinity btw but its supposed to be able to handle that isnt it?).
Now i have recently purchased an SSD dedicated for WoW as my main game drive was running out of space and that hasnt helped whatsoever (didnt really think it would..).
I want to be able to run wow at full res (5900x1200) at 60fps all the time so any ideas of how to achieve this?
(should I replace my 5870 with a faster card? I would consider getting xfire but my motherboard runs at 8x8 when 2 cards are used instead of 16x16 - would this seriously affect it?)..
 
You wont be able to run at 60fps mate.

i run the same eyefinity setup, my 5970 can do around 40-45fps average in dence places.

Vsync doesnt work in eyefinity as it raises to 120FPS :P.

I would wait till the new 6970 (5870 replacement) comes out and buy that, or turn off AA and turn down your settings

And yes WOW is CPU hungry
 
Wow is very poorly optimized for todays GFX cards, a faster card will make minimal difference as a 5870 should give silly FPS in wow.
 
FYI the only way I can get constant fps is to have distance to to the lowest. Anything higher than that and I get massive FPS drop when I spin the camera around (from about 60 to 14 for a couple of seconds)...
I can however play Crysis,BF2BC and GTAIV without any issues whatsover...

tried changing AA/Textures etc and it made virtually no difference (doesnt make sense to me).
 
Missed the eyefinity bit. Get another 5870 " should be going cheap now used " your mobo should be PCI-E 2.0 and therefor the performance loss with 8x8 is minimal.
 
Try a lower res, if you still get low FPS at the same spots then the CPU is bottlenecking, and in wows case that's just the POS optimized engine it is, faster CPU's will make little difference if the GFX engine sux.
 
Raven just seen your post above mine. So 8x8 should be minimal? Really? (gets his credit card out). Does it have to be an identical card as the sales for 5870's have slimmed down for some reason...
 
not worth upgrading because wow from a 4870x2 to a 480gtx didnt really change more than 5-10fps but going from phenom 955 to i7930@4ghz put up 20fps gains. Still can't get 60fps all the time tho.
 
Like I said your mobo should be PCI-E 2.0, online tests have shown the difference between 16x16 v 8x8 to be negligible. Any 5870 or 5850 will xfire.
 
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i upgraded to one massive screen for wow (32"), id take that over eye infinity any day (but thats just me).

WOW is very cpu hungry, i have 4.2ghz i7 but even that get a bit low on fps at times.
 
WoW scales very poorly with multi GPU technologies, and scales awfully badly with DX11 GPU's in general. Pretty much if you want 60fps with eyefinity you would need a i7 980X at 4.4Ghz or so. WoW runs slightly better on Nvidia cards but again the game is currently bottlenecked by CPU's rather than GPUs. WoW does not typically make use of more than 70% of GPU load with multi-GPU.
 
The 8x8 channels on the mobo won't make much difference to those with 16x16, if much at all, but a 2nd card would certainly sort it out :)
 
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