HD 7850 Struggling With World of Warcraft

[xZora]

It seems that lately my HD 7850 has been struggling a little bit in World of Warcraft during 10/25m raids, or sitting in a major city. I've turned down all of my graphic settings to low or off, apart from view distance and environmental detail - which I'm keeping at good to high.

I'm running a i7-3770k OC'd to 4.0, keeping turbo enabled, 16GB of 1600 RAM, two monitors - main at 1920x1080 with a second monitor slightly lower reso just for browser/music. I've resisted from updating drivers after being stable, but have recently updated them to try to fix the issue but nothing has changed. I run very few addons, and the ones I do run are always up to date.

If I'm out in the world on my own, with my graphics settings, I sit around 110 frames, but drops to 20-30 in my previously mentioned settings, which I feel shouldn't be happening.

Any help, or insight, would be greatly appreciated.

 

[ingtar33]

WOW is cpu intensive, meaning its highly possible your issue is cpu limited. check out your cpu utilization when your fps drops down to 20-30fps. That cpu has a lot more overclocking headroom then you're getting out of it... i'd try to overclock it a bit and see what happens.

Its also possible you're having temp issues due to the summer weather. In which case you might want to look into getting a better cpu cooler. IB runs hot, and it might be temperature throttling (your gpu might be temp throttling as well); check out the cpu temp and see if its getting up to 90C.

 

[xZora]

WOW is cpu intensive, meaning its highly possible your issue is cpu limited. check out your cpu utilization when your fps drops down to 20-30fps. That cpu has a lot more overclocking headroom then you're getting out of it... i'd try to overclock it a bit and see what happens.

Its also possible you're having temp issues due to the summer weather. In which case you might want to look into getting a better cpu cooler. IB runs hot, and it might be temperature throttling (your gpu might be temp throttling as well); check out the cpu temp and see if its getting up to 90C.

I'll monitor it when I get home from work. As for the temperature issue, I don't think that's causing much of a problem, though I could be wrong. I am currently using an H60 to cool the CPU, with the exhaust at the back of the case, and 2 intake fans on the front. During WoW, even when streaming, I don't go over 50c. But, to limit temps even more (because it does get warm in my room), I have a H100i shipping.

I'll monitor the CPU and GPU temps tonight, however.

 

[ingtar33]

WOW is cpu intensive, meaning its highly possible your issue is cpu limited. check out your cpu utilization when your fps drops down to 20-30fps. That cpu has a lot more overclocking headroom then you're getting out of it... i'd try to overclock it a bit and see what happens.

Its also possible you're having temp issues due to the summer weather. In which case you might want to look into getting a better cpu cooler. IB runs hot, and it might be temperature throttling (your gpu might be temp throttling as well); check out the cpu temp and see if its getting up to 90C.

I'll monitor it when I get home from work. As for the temperature issue, I don't think that's causing much of a problem, though I could be wrong. I am currently using an H60 to cool the CPU, with the exhaust at the back of the case, and 2 intake fans on the front. During WoW, even when streaming, I don't go over 50c. But, to limit temps even more (because it does get warm in my room), I have a H100i shipping.

I'll monitor the CPU and GPU temps tonight, however.

hrm... well good luck on that one. get back to us if the problem remains.