[Solved] Low FPS in WoW.

Hi im not sure if this is the right place to ask this but if not,please redirect me if needed be.

Im a huge WoW nerd and I bought a PC maybe 6 months ago,here is my specs.

I7 930 2.8ghz
ATI 5770 1gb gigabyte vid card
6 gigs of ram
windows 7 home premium
600gb hard drive(western digital black)

My windows score for my pc is 6.0

I play wow at "Fair" settings witch is the next step up from lowest settings on a 1980x1080 resolution.
My fps drops 5fps in 25mans on certain fights and its incredibly annoying.I plan on buying a gtx 580 at the end of febuary in hopeing this will fix my problem and if i have enough getting a 200gb ssd.

This is strickly for WoW 25man raids I have this problem and out in the world my fps is decent i guess like 60-80.

Any advice,feed back and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

thank you.

You should be able to play WoW on those settings with no problems. The first thing that I would suggest is to update your video card drivers. Then check your CPU & GPU temps when you are experiencing this problem. You can also run task manager and look for any background program that may be running that is using a large amount of system resources.

Awesome thanks for replying.I just got drivers detective a few hours ago and apperently i have like 15 out of date drivers, but not including my video card,thats up to date.This may be dumb to ask but would other non related video drivers have anything to do with my problem?

Edit: damn its actually 37 out of date drivers.

Since im not in a raid setting,I went right in the middle of Orgrimmar(major city) that every hangs out in and tested my GPU/CPU speeds and temps useing useing the recent version of Techpower ups GPU-Z.These are the result in windows mode.

GPU core clock: 850.00Mhz
GPU Memory Cloak: 1200.00Mhz
GPU Temp: 49.0-50*C
Fan Speed: 35%
GPU Load: 0%
Fan Speed: RPM
GPU Temp1: 46.0*C
GPU Temp2: 50-51*C
GPU Temp3: 49.0*C


Useing Speedfan to see my CPU temps this is what i got from the readings.

Tempt1:38c
Temp2: 88c
Temp3: 48c
Temp-128
Core 0: 86c
Core 1: 86c
Core 2: 86c
Core 3: 87c
Core 4: 85c

Not exactly sure what all this means but some feed back would be greatly appreciated.Thank you.

Download your own off of the sites that your hardware comes from!

Those core tems are high!

MY quad temps never go above 42 c!

should be lower , you need a better heatsink!

uh oh...thermal compound..owie..uh oh...

I don't Oc at all.This is just how it is.I may just go out and buy a new heat sink or invest in somthing a little more such a s awater cooler or somthing.But i dont plan on Oc'ing anytime soon so i doubt it worth a water cooler.

Yeah I believe i did it properly.The compound came with a paint brush type applicator,so i just spread a thin layer of it accross the cpu itself.After i just carfefully sit my heat sink ontop of it.

Now my core temps are much lower now while running WoW its at a steady 65*c and im very happy with this.

Thank you very much everyone for the replys,been a great help.I guess ill be more cofident when i get my gtx580 at the end of this month knowing my cpu is in good running condition.

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