Bought a laptop a while a few months ago,start to regret it

[Twoddle]

So Doing a clean windows install is the best i can do to save my laptop?

Probably unless you can figure out which apps are using up the resources. Windows has a Resource Monitor which I believe you can run by "perfmon /res" in the run bar or via Adminstrative Tools in the control panel. It has a Disk tab which tells you what process are doing the disk activity.

If you do reinstall try to avoid the built in 3rd party software, stuff like Power Management is not really needed since it's merely a layer on top of the Windows one. Boot profiling is not needed, DVD software, mouse pad software, webcam, Anti-virus, Office Trial etc., all that is bloat. If afterwards you do find you need something then you can always get it later from the manufacturer's website.

Personally I would try to install from a clean non-OEM Windows 10 ISO via USB and then only if needed get specialist drivers from the internet but that's me, but you might need a product key I dunno. In my experience the recovery partition and/or the DVD that comes with the laptop contains the bloatware slowing down the machine.

[Lathais]

960M. It's shit. It's nowhere near a desktop 960, despite the name. The 960M is a third of the speed.

WoW is really a lot more GPU intensive than people think. I was on a 5870 (which is still better than a 960M) and moving to a 1060 made things fly again. Was struggling to maintain 20fps at minimal settings, and now I can play smoothly at max settings again.

I doubt you can upgrade the card. If you can return it, do so and get a laptop with a 1060. This latest generation uses the same parts as the desktop cards, so they're a lot faster.

If you are playing at 1080p with a 60hz monitor, yeah, GPU is not that important. Anything around the power of a 750ti(which the 960M meets) is enough for the game at those settings. Anything beyond that is not going to give you anything noticeable. Yeah, you were running a 5870, an 8 year old card. Of course you are going to see gains from that. However, a 960M is enough for WoW. The OP clearly has some other issues going on here.

[Blackmist]

If you are playing at 1080p with a 60hz monitor, yeah, GPU is not that important. Anything around the power of a 750ti(which the 960M meets) is enough for the game at those settings. Anything beyond that is not going to give you anything noticeable. Yeah, you were running a 5870, an 8 year old card. Of course you are going to see gains from that. However, a 960M is enough for WoW. The OP clearly has some other issues going on here.

The 750 Ti is almost twice as powerful as the 960M. I am playing at 1080p, and I'm telling you GPU matters a lot more than it used to.

[Flevor]

i honestly do not care about how good/bad a 960M is it's good enough to play wow at decent settings since i only use it when i'm out

The thing is that it's much slower than it should be

i'll probably try clean windows install this weekend and see how it goes

[Lathais]

The 750 Ti is almost twice as powerful as the 960M. I am playing at 1080p, and I'm telling you GPU matters a lot more than it used to.

Not really, spec wise, they are nearly identical. They are both built on GM107, though the 960M runs at very slightly higher clocks(1029/1097 vs 1020/1085 stock/boost) and the 750ti has slightly higher memory clocks(1253 vs 1350). Some games perform nearly twice as good on the 750ti, but other games perform better on the 960M. I also agree with you, since they turned Ultra up to 10, GPU matters a bit more than it used to. For anyone playing on 1080p@60hz though, a 750ti/960M is still more than good enough. He clearly has something else going on. It may be heat, not allowing the 960M to perform as well as it should, because, well, it's a laptop and that happens. That's probably why people think the 960M is so much worse than it is. Spec wise though, it's basically a 750ti, which yes, is quite a bit behind the 960 it's named after, but that's been standard until the 10xx series that mobile equivalents are a bit weaker. It's not near as much as you claim, except in certain games or in situations where you hit thermal throttling limits due to being in a laptop.