Worth upgrading a 5870 (for Wow)

[powdaman]

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?)..

 

[powdaman]

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).

 

[powdaman]

CPU OC to 3.8Ghz, surely thats enough??? (quad core as well although I dont know if wow makes use of it)..

 

[powdaman]

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...

 

[powdaman]

Ok turned everything down to low or disabled with distance set to full and it is running at about 120fps (even in Dalaran). Turn all to Low and it starts to chuck.
Findings:

- The new water affect kills it
- Sunshafts kills it
- Everything else is reasonably fine

I am guessing it is bottlenecking at the graphics card due to trying to run at such a high resolution (5800x1200) and that another card would probably do the trick.

Cheers for all the feedback guys - WoW is definately a system testing game (more so than crysis in my opinion).

Powda

 

[powdaman]

Does this mean that I need a new machine in less than a year of buying the new one? LOL

Normally get at least a years worth of full res everything on functionality from my new machines each time I invest....

I must say that I normally go Intel/Nvidia so this is the first main machine that is AMD/ATI... did I make a mistake??

 

[powdaman]

It is a shame though when a game that looks as amazing as Crysis on full runs flawlessly and yet Wow which is cartoon-ish runs like a dog. I understand that it doesnt use all cores yada yada but the amount of money pumped into it you would think that it would be improved quite considerably from that perspective (I think first quarter this year the game has brought in $205 Million pure profit).....