Low FPS in World of warcraft with GTX 680

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Andy1234567

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Hi guys,

First off, I am new to this forum, nice to meet you all.

I just bought a ASUS GeForce GTX 680 DirectCU II 1019MHZ 2GB yesterday, and the result is abit disappointing. With Ultra setting, I only get about 20-30 fps in the main city, and 30-40 during raid. I tried to play around with all the setting and cannot get anywhere higher than 70fps. When I looked at the cpu usage, it is only 30%, and gpu usage is about 30%.

Is the cpu bottleneck the gpu?

My system:
CPU: Phenom 1090t
Ram: 8gb DDR3
Motherboard: M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3
GPU: ASUS GeForce GTX 680 DirectCU II 1019MHZ 2GB

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Any help is appreciated.

Thanks
Andy
 
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I agree with murbeck. You're CPU is the bottleneck in this situation. It isn't a bad CPU, by any means. IMO, there really isn't a reason to upgrade. What's wrong with 70FPS? The phenom line can more than hold its own in modern games, so I would try to get a bit more life out of that. And if you want, you can squeeze out a little extra performance out of the CPU with a nice little OC :)
 
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freshbakd

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Only thing i could think of other than faulty hardware. Would be to make sure in nvidia control panel and windows to make sure your not on power saver, Make sure everything is on performance. Sometimes you need to up the voltage on out of box overclocked cards had that happened to myself even.
 
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Andy1234567

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The temps is sitting at 46 degree, i dont think this the issue
 
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Andy1234567

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Yes, it isnt a bad cpu, I was expecting to get stable 60 fps at least, but it cannot reaches it. I am using stock fan, do I need to get a cooler to OC?

 
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You could give it a gentle kick in the pants with the stock cooler. Just make sure your temps stay below 85C, and you'll be just fine.
 
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Andy1234567

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I got some free time today. so I wiped the OS and reinstalled Win8.
I still have my Amd 6870, so I installed it back to the system and it gives pretty much the same fps for wow...this is so weird. And the GPU is using 40% also. Is this special with WOW? When I play guildwar2, GPU usage is actually at 99% and gives 41-45 fps.

I just don't know if upgrading CPU and motherboard will boost up the performance by a lot
 
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Take a look at WoW, does it strike you as a game that requires alot of GPU processing? With that game its all about the CPU, the reason you aren't getting a better framerate is because for that to happen the 6870 would have to be at 100% usage and doing everything it can, so an upgrade card can raise the bar, but here that isn't needed.
 
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Because the game likely doesn't utilize more than one core. However, the single core performance of AMD processors isn't the best, hence the bottleneck.
 
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I have a Asrock extreme 6 Z87 with a i7 4770k, I did have SLI'd 680's but due to a bug with the Nvidia drivers I'm currently down to a single card.

So with a single GTX680 I'm getting around 50fps in a main city (haven't raided yet, but I'm expecting around 30fps) but that is in 5760 x 1080 over 3 monitors. I'd certainly expect waay better fps assuming you are using a single monitor at 1920 x 1080.... My GF has a i3 with a 6970 on a single monitor running at least 60fps everywhere - not sure if the i3 is on a par with your processor.

Couple of things to try - make sure you are running DX11 and full screen mode (not windowed, even if it is maximized). Your certainly not getting the performance you should be....
 
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