WoW on 4k?

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If wow doesn't support SLI how do you run SLI in wow?

[Remilia]

Support in the sense that Blizzard won't do jack if your system is running SLI and something goes amiss. That's basically what it means. To officially support it means you'd be going through the process of having to troubleshoot potential SLI related issue and it'd be an extra pain. Instead if it works it works, if it doesn't well whatever.

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You are better off running on a lower res and getting a higher refresh 1080p monitor, 4k is alot of pixels to push.

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If wow doesn't support SLI how do you run SLI in wow?

It does support SLI, though more often than not you're limited by your CPU, not GPUs. But in an empty zone I've seen both of my GPUs at ~90% load.

At 4k I get more or less twice the FPS with SLI enabled.

[chaddd]

I currently run WoW in 4K with 970s SLI. There is a test that you can see under the Nvidia control panel that will turn on a green bar when you are running applications in SLI. It will also grow/shrink the bar (it's an active benchmark) showing you when the application spills to the 2nd card and you are putting more demands on the card bridge.

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It does support SLI, though more often than not you're limited by your CPU, not GPUs. But in an empty zone I've seen both of my GPUs at ~90% load.

At 4k I get more or less twice the FPS with SLI enabled.

Single 970, ultra, fly up super high and look around panda land I get about 60-70 FPS. Full 30 man in raid (big room, not a small hallways which will spike your FPS), under hero I will dip to 40.

SLI 970, ultra, fly up super high and look around panda land I get about 100 - 110 FPS. Full 30 man in raid (big room again) dip to 55 - 65 under hero.

Keep in might it's multiple components of your computer, not a single item, that add up to the better gaming experience.

[Lathais]

That's probably the most ignorant thing I have ever read in my entire life.

It is absolutely true. The intel Pentium G3258 has a very high Single Core Performance. Since WoWs main thread runs on one core and the second core can handle the rest, you need no more than this. The Single Core performance of the G3258 is almost the same as that of the i7. With an OC, yes, performance will be very similar.

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It is absolutely true. The intel Pentium G3258 has a very high Single Core Performance. Since WoWs main thread runs on one core and the second core can handle the rest, you need no more than this. The Single Core performance of the G3258 is almost the same as that of the i7. With an OC, yes, performance will be very similar.

The G3258 can have some spikes. Check the imgur album I linked above where I set core affinity to just 2 cores.