just installed sapphire 4870x2

3DMark Score
13547 3DMarks
SM 2.0 Score
5251
SM 3.0 Score
6201
CPU Score
4156

thats my 3dmark 06 results seems low to me

my computer is intel q9550
4 gig balistic
corsair 750w power supply
sapphire 4870x2
vista home premiem 64

fps were around 60ish and now i have not done any instances since installed but in dalaran major city i am hitting 20-35ish while before 40-50ish

hey topper can i get any suggestion on how to push my cpu a bit more i got a thermaltek heat sink for the cpu and my cpu )cosmos s has all 120mm fans in there 6 in total

No need to do that. uninstall your drivers reboot into safe mode Run a driver cleaner and remove both ATI and Nvidia drivers reboot and reinstall the drivers.

You can get Guru3D's Driver Sweeper here

I didn't read what motherboard you have so don't go hog wild and remove all nvidia drivers. Select ONLY the video based one/ones and remove those. You may end up doing harm to your board keeping other things from running right if you remove them all.

What AA setting are you using, don't play it myself but i thought i read that some AA levels were casuing glitches.

All the points previously made are very good and correct about the installation and using driver cleaner. How long has it been since you did a clean install of the OS? If it has been quite a while and you have installed and uninstalled a bunch of stuff? If you have the time and all the newest and correct drivers, go for the clean install.

Search around here on the forums and google over clocking there are many good posts about it. Basically you are going to increase the FSB freq. Please do the reading first before you start changing system settings. Too high voltage is where the noobs tend to hurt their systems.

I think you made a good choice with your CPU by the way. You have a stock freq of 2.8ghz. The fbs is 1333/333 at stock settings. Somewhere in you bios you can change the 333 setting, to say 350, 375 395 these freqs x the cpu clock multiplier = system speed. Some cpus have an unlocked multi. Yours does not. You have a 8.5 multi 8.5x333=2.83ghz. This is where the hobbyist/enthusiasts fiddle with parts and system settings to achieve the best/highest settings for the best system speed. Again go cautiously and learn all you can before you decide to put the spurs to your expensive system.

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Just a poke to the masses out there (just to be mean)

Firstly- Don't by a cheapo motherboard.
Secondly-If you do you can't expect it to function as if it were highend. Some will give a satisfactory OC most will just run at or near the default settings.
I don't ever think I have heard someone say " Darn it my Motherboard is just toooo darn good and stable, the components are just toooo high quailty and the ease of changing settings is just toooo easy and functionaly and oh yeah it stays cool and trouble free all the time, darn it, darn it"

Make sure you are not running the game in windowed mode. The 4870 X2 can only run one of the two graphics chips in windowed mode and it can't even run the one at full power I believe. It's annoying but there's no way aound it. The windowed mode one chip rule applies to all games, but WoW is definiately the most popular to play windowed (to make the constant alt-tabbing faster).