System Performance issues

[racuro]

I have from what i know a fairly decent PC, but from what ive been doing[Primarily Gaming WoW,Cod4/5, Left 4 Dead] I have noticed bad performance in games especially World of warcraft just walking around a city.. 12-16 FPS i have no idea why but any information as to why it might happen is wonderful.

Specs:

CPU: AMD Phenom x4 9500 2.2GhZ
Mother Board: MSI K9A2-PLATINUM AMD 790FX Chipset
GPU: ATi Radeon HD 3870 512mb GDDR4--[I have two of these in Crossfire.]
Hard Disks: Maxtor 100gb 7200rpm SATA [Primary 2-3 yrs old] - Seagate Barracuda 250gb 7200rpm [Secondary brand new]
Memory: 4gb OCz Platinum Revision 800Mhz
Operating System: Windows XP Professional Service pack 2 - 64-bit Version
Power Supply: Kingwin 800watt Mach1 Modular PSU
Monitor: Samsung Syncmaster 216bw 21.6"

 

[Proximon]

Your games don't use multiple cores, so your quad core CPU isn't doing them any good. It's not going to be a strong CPU in apps that don't use it properly.

Still, you should get better frames than that. You could try assigning WoW to another core in the task manager.

 

[racuro]

how do i do that? cause i notice core 3 does nothing most of the time.

A tid bit i just ran 3d mark 03[dunno if theres newer versions] got 14330- is that a good value or bad?

On cod4/5 i get 60-100 FPS this is why i asked the question cause wow dosent seem too complex

 

[Proximon]

Find the process in the processes tab. Right click and set affinity. probably all four cores will be checked, so just un-check the first core. That should force it to run on a less busy core.

Also, you may want to completely remove your current video drivers and install the latest drivers from ATI. There are WoW specific fixes in 9.4