Got back into wow, horrible fps drops on medium

[Brunevde]

As the title says came back to wow and constantly drop from 60-25 and below running on medium,even though the graphics interface thing on wow recommends high. Any suggestions?
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core i5 3570 @ 3.40GHz 88 °C
Ivy Bridge 22nm Technology
RAM
8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 666MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
ASRock Z77M (CPUSocket) 47 °C
Graphics
M190VA (1360x768@60Hz)
767MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 (NVIDIA) 46 °C
Are the specs, please ignore the high cpu temp. Seems to be a bug when you first open speccy

[BicycleMafioso]

What are you doing at the time when you are losing frames?
Are you running on a TV (given the resolution)? What kind of background processes do you have running during?
Do you have any addons installed?

Can you tell us the correct CPU temps via, like, HWStats instead of those apparently incorrect ones?

[Brunevde]

I am running on a tv(1360x768) and the frame drops just happen at different times. During dungeons and just standing in the AH in SW. A fair number of addons but nothing crazy resource intensive, and next to no background processes. Cpu seems to be hovering right around 60

[Varabently]

I dunno I run into the same thing. I don't see any reason why my machine couldn't run WoW on high or ultra, but I run into issues if I try it. I've always had issues running WoW on a laptop though, and other games in general. Even if the specs are similar, desktops seem to run it better.

[chazus]

Intel Core i5 3570 @ 3.40GHz 88 °C

I'd say your CPU is overheating.

First thing I'd check is if the CPU fan is seated properly, and if so, it probably needs its paste removed and re-applied with new goo.

failpost, didn't read last line

[Deleted]

2 peeps with the Barney Stinson science thing... nice

[Teye]

I'd say your CPU is overheating.

First thing I'd check is if the CPU fan is seated properly, and if so, it probably needs its paste removed and re-applied with new goo.

Are the specs, please ignore the high cpu temp. Seems to be a bug when you first open speccy

Read the thread, mod.

[chazus]

Read the thread, mod.

Ahaha, yeah. I have trouble reading stuff without line breaks and that last line I thought was just more GPU info. Derp.

[Deleted]

Although wow is cpu heavy rather than gpu, in your case i would say your cpu is fine but your gpu is on the lower end. Seeing fps dips in raiding from 60 to 25 on some fights is common so i wouldn't worry about that.
Another thing is that at end of 2nd tier this expansion they did something and things got more demanding, in raiding at least.

[Brunevde]

Thanks for all the replies, I'll look into regooping the cpu and maybe acquiring a better GPU