CPU on it's way out?

I have an intel e6600 at stock speeds that I got about a year and change ago. I've tried to Overclock and whatnot and I have an arctic cooler freezer pro 7 hsf. For the past month and change I have had really terrible frame rates, in simple games such as WoW. I run at 1600x 1080 and get around 20 fps, sometimes dipping under 10 fps. This does not change no matter what resolution I put it at.

I use 4gb of corsair ram, dual 8800 gts 320mb in sli, a gigabyte ga-n650sli-ds4 mobo, an antec truepower trio 550w psu

I should be wrecking WoW with this setup.

I don't like to overclock because I really can't get the hang of it, and I am impatient >.<

What CPU should I Get that I do not need to overclock and it will not bottleneck my graphics. I am upgrading my graphics to a gtx 260 factory overclocked.

From what i understand, my computer is showing all the signs of the cpu bottlenecking my system, because I cant increase the frames by lowering settings/resolution.

Good points, but network lag in WoW will not effect your FPS. Your online game play may be jumpy, but your FPS will remain unchanged.

Just for the hell of it, try pulling all extra PCI and PCI-E cards you have and just keep your video card in. I ran into almost the same scenario with WoW. I had a PCI-E soundcard installed in my system and in attempts to increase my FPS, I pulled it and it made a huge difference.

I'm at work atm...but I only have 2 Pci-e slots on my computer, and I cant really fit anything else in the pci slots because my 2 vid cards are so damn big. I've tried running one vid card and two, and I've disabled nearly all of my startup programs, nothing running in the background etc.

As an Ex-WOW player i would recommend to delete WTF and WTB folders and disable all addons. Restart and test again.


If that doesn't work, pick up a sledgehammer and use Seal of The Crusader Rank 6.

I don't know radnor, Warstomp may be a better way to fix the problem.

Just an FYI, there is another topic going on similar to this one. Maybe you'll get some more info there also.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] m#t1832817

To the person who said playing online doesn't effect your fps you are wrong. If there is lag involved and the server is not reliable and also has the fps set in the game. Then your fps gets affected to the point the game freezes untill the packets sync up, or you lose the connection. The lower the ping the better your gameplay. That is well none. Don't ever discount online quality not effecting your fps in game play. Or like most of the people here pulling all there hardware out and reinstalling oses when it could have been something as simple as a server lagging out because of traffic. When playing online, it's good to check your ping, because it does change by the minute when more people come o also. You could ping a 10ms ping 1 sec then 2 minutes down the road your pinging 1000 and your fps drop like a rock and then it corrects itself but you fps hasn't picked back up yet because it's still trying to sync.
just a little advice

Install and run 3DMark06 and post your result!

Mike.

TY for beating me to this explanation . While lag does have the effect of slowing you down (as a result of everyone having to remain insync), it does not affect your PC's ability to render FPS.

Of course, 99% of all people get the two confused, so its understandable...

hahahahah @ you all thx for the help. Well... i'm actually installing a 64 bit vista home premium tonight,as i was running xp 32 bit, and not making use of my extra ram. soooo after I do that i will check my fps and I will post a 3dmark06 score.

oh... and my ping never gets higher than 100ms

STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT!!! STOP READING MY MIND!!!!

Ok....yes, maybe throttling, but i doubt thats an issue with that setup. Its possible though. Again, i doubt its hardware, so im still leaning towards a messed up OC attempt.

...so you DID have temp issues at one point? Run coretemp while playing WoW for a few minutes, just in case.

Maybe you should check ur HDD...
It might have something like 99% frag... or ur HDD is about to die...
It happens you know...

Ok. fixed the problem:

I went to micro center to buy a 64 bit vista and i was gonna do a new install. They were sold out of home premium and I wasnt gonna spend another 60 dollars for business. I then saw the wonderful display of the gtx 260 superclocked. Bought one of those. I re-did all my mods in game and I'm runnign 40fps in the most crowded areas and I'm pinned at 60 (vsync) everywhere else. Im running crysis at 35 fps constant running and gunning at 1680 x 1050 with all settings on high and 4x AA on.

Thanks for all the help!

Now if I could only figure out why my sound lags every so often. Time to buy a x-fi fatality titanium championship edition >< onboard sound apparently aint cutting it.

I think wasting money on Vista 64 is even worse. Much worse.

ow Runs fine on WINE !!!!! (its not an Emulator)