Hello,
1st time poster - I hope I picked the correct section for my question / problem.
System specs :
64-bit Windows 7 Corporate edition
cpu : intel i7-860 @ 2.8ghz
mb : asus p755d le
ram : 4x2gb corsair xms2 ddr3-1066mhz
gfx : ati hd5970
hd : intel x25-m 80gb ssd
audio : asus xonar essence stx pci-e
psu : zalman 850w (zm850-hp)
This is the specs of a system i build about a month ago - I'm a very frequent player of world of warcraft, and I build this system based around that game, in hope of getting very good performance.
Fact is, im getting shitty performance - By shitty performance im talking about below 60 fps (ultra settings with v-sync enabled) in non-populated areas - I've spend countless hours searching google for solutions to my problem, and nothing I've tried so far has made any diffrence at all (anything from driver tweaks, in-game tweaks, config file tweaks) - Its as if my fps remains the same, regardless of what I try, except if I directly go and disable performance improving parameters of course, and this tells me that I may be tweaking in all the wrong places.
It's apparent that world of warcraft is more cpu dependant rather than gpu dependant, at least that's what I keep reading everywhere - So, my question to the experienced windows 7 people on this forum goes something like this :
Are there any mechanisms in windows 7 that prevents processes from using all the cpu they need?
The reason I ask is this - If World of Warcraft is so CPU heavy, why on earth doesn't the damn thing tax my cpu more than 18-20% - I'd love to the the damn thing using all of it or even 70%
I've tried to run the game process in high prio without any notable change in fps.
I've fiddled around with the speedstep option in bios, which didn't help either - With speedstep enabled cpu-z tells me the cpu is running @ ~1.8ghz, and 2.8ghz without.
When i benchmark my system with known freeware I get scores that indicate that my system is working as intented.
Yeah so, I'm completly out of things to try, and I'm hoping very much that someone on here may be able to shed a little light on my situation, or maybe got some tweaks to try.
Thanks in advance
1st time poster - I hope I picked the correct section for my question / problem.
System specs :
64-bit Windows 7 Corporate edition
cpu : intel i7-860 @ 2.8ghz
mb : asus p755d le
ram : 4x2gb corsair xms2 ddr3-1066mhz
gfx : ati hd5970
hd : intel x25-m 80gb ssd
audio : asus xonar essence stx pci-e
psu : zalman 850w (zm850-hp)
This is the specs of a system i build about a month ago - I'm a very frequent player of world of warcraft, and I build this system based around that game, in hope of getting very good performance.
Fact is, im getting shitty performance - By shitty performance im talking about below 60 fps (ultra settings with v-sync enabled) in non-populated areas - I've spend countless hours searching google for solutions to my problem, and nothing I've tried so far has made any diffrence at all (anything from driver tweaks, in-game tweaks, config file tweaks) - Its as if my fps remains the same, regardless of what I try, except if I directly go and disable performance improving parameters of course, and this tells me that I may be tweaking in all the wrong places.
It's apparent that world of warcraft is more cpu dependant rather than gpu dependant, at least that's what I keep reading everywhere - So, my question to the experienced windows 7 people on this forum goes something like this :
Are there any mechanisms in windows 7 that prevents processes from using all the cpu they need?
The reason I ask is this - If World of Warcraft is so CPU heavy, why on earth doesn't the damn thing tax my cpu more than 18-20% - I'd love to the the damn thing using all of it or even 70%
I've tried to run the game process in high prio without any notable change in fps.
I've fiddled around with the speedstep option in bios, which didn't help either - With speedstep enabled cpu-z tells me the cpu is running @ ~1.8ghz, and 2.8ghz without.
When i benchmark my system with known freeware I get scores that indicate that my system is working as intented.
Yeah so, I'm completly out of things to try, and I'm hoping very much that someone on here may be able to shed a little light on my situation, or maybe got some tweaks to try.
Thanks in advance
