Re: How do I Increase Gaming Performance

"Psykoh" <> wrote in message
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> Hello All,
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> I would really appreciate any assistance. I have a Dell 710H2C, Quad
> Core, 4GB RAM (soon to be 6GB), 2 striped 10,000 RPM HDD's, 2 Nvidia
> 8800 GTX SLI video cards. I am an avid World of Warcraft and
> Counterstrike player. I want to improve the performance of my system.
> Frame rates stink when the graphics are maxed. This system should be
> preforming a lot better. Sometime frame rates drop to 20FPS. Been
> reading a lot of stuff on-line about improving performance. First off
> when I run SLI mode games usually lock-up. Been told by Blizzard tech
> support that they don't support SLI. Ready to pull my hair out! Please
> help?
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Get a Geforce 295 GTX, SLI on a single card or even two for quad SLI if
money is no object. It will set you back about $1100-$1200 though for two
cards.

If you're not going to use SLI or can't because of compatibility, then you
could go with Geforce 280 GTX. I don't know the exact performance level,
but a single Geforce 280 GTX should be near the performance of 2 8800 GTX
running in SLI mode.

Geforce 280 GTX are under $290 a piece. You could buy another 280 later and
trounce your 2x 8800 GTX SLI mode into the ground. Easily.

"Dalo Harkin" <> wrote in message
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> As the others have said there is not much more that you can do that you
> currently are not:-
> You could opt for a faster CPU and GPU and RAM as has been advised -
> you have some of the fasters HDDs that money can buy, the resolution
> that you are gaming at plays a huge part in this - if you are trying to
> run those two cards on a huge panel with all the AA and AF on MAX then
> you wont manage it.
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> If you need anymore help let us know.
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To run WoW in SLI and have it work you must disable triplebuffering in the
graphics options in the game it slows it down.
Setup a custom profile for WOW in the Nvidia control panel

use alternate frame rendering 2 instead of split frame.
set Vsyc to always on
leave all other settings to let app decide.

This should get you 40 - 60 FPS average. These settings worked fine for me
with 2 8800 GT's

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