XFX 4890 - WoW 100% Usage

[oli356]

Hey

This has just come to my attention, when playing WoW, only on 'good settings' with shadows on low, according to CCC my activity of graphics card is 99%. While temperatures are around 74c and fan speed is at 50% (but still very loud)

Is it me or does 99% sound extremely high?




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Asus M4A79XTD Evo (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 3.2 GHz
XFX HD 4890 1GB GDDR5 Dual DVI HDTV Out PCI-E Graphics Card
G.Skill RipJaw 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C8 1333MHz Dual Channel Kit

Thanks

EDIT: Though now I'm just standing around and it's only at around 50%. Ahh started moving and it shot back up


Also running 2 monitors on 1920*1080

 

[Marvin]

Depends on your frame rates. If you're getting 15 FPS and 99% usage then there's a problem, if you're getting high FPS and 99% usage then it's simply using the card to its whole ability.

 

[oli356]

Getting around 115 currently, but It can go a lot lower. Still wouldn't think it would use all of it's 'potential'

Really need to install my Akasa AK-VC03-BLUV Vortexx NEO VGA Cooler as well. Should put temps down a fair bit and the noise. It doesn't say it fits a 4890 on the box but OCUK website says otherwise. I took all the screws off the card a few weeks ago when I bought it, but there were a few smaller ones on the backplate which I couldn't remove -.- Need a smaller screwdriver

 

[Andrei23]

wow is more cpu heavy rather than anything

 

[oli356]

Never seen CPU go above 45% while playing

 

[Andrei23]

 

[DIABLO]

If you got vsync off then the card will run as fast as it can to achieve as many FPS as it can. If you were running at 100% and getting poor FPS or the GPU was far off 100% usage then that would be signs of a problem.

 

[Marine-RX179]

Never seen CPU go above 45% while playing

No you won't, because WOW is poorly optimised for using the extra cores, despite it really NEED the extra CPU power.