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Having serious FPS issues with brand new build

AriMykil

Commendable
Jan 12, 2017
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Here are my specs...
MSI 970 Gaming
MSI RX 480 8g
AMD FX-8350 Black Edition
32 gigs of 1600mhz RAM
EVGA 725W Bronze
Samsung Evo 240g SSD
WD 1TB 7200rpm
CPU fan is hyper cooler 212 evo

I am having issues running more than 25 FPS in dense areas, up to 60 in unpopulated areas, but around 5 in any sort of raids. At this point I'm completely bunked. After research I decided to upgrade to an 8350 from the 8320 which gave me about 4 more FPS is raids. I replaced my MSI RX470 4g to the one listed. I even installed a completely different video card from my girlfriends computer that had hers running around 100fps and it made no difference at all. Is there a chance I have a bad PCI-E slot? Or is there something else wrong with my build?
 
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Ugh WOW! I play with old GTX560 1Gb 256byte ddr5
& get 139fps average with above average graphics now, before I was lucky if I got 60fps.
Here is what I had problem with my hdd it was a 500Gb 7200rpm , but only a 3Gb/s transfer I replaced it with a 1Tb 7200rpm 6Gb/s 128Gb cache Hdd. Zoom not a ssd but almost three times the performance on WOW.

http://imgur.com/Iyf2bLF?

You could move your WOW to your SDD, but that is not going to help you everywhere else. Try adjusting your settings in WOW Max is not always best, I can pump up my WOW graphics to max & drop lot of FBS down to about 39fbs average & long map load time. Also I run Razer Cortex which optimizes my game defrags memory then starts WOW in full screen mode...
Running my games from my ssd. I was having this issue and decided to grab an ssd to see if it would help the problem. It didn't do anything except help my load times, as I suspected it might.
 
I should add that my graphics only tank when I play World of Warcraft. I play Overwatch consistently as well and have no issues with it and run between 60-70 fps
 
Ugh WOW! I play with old GTX560 1Gb 256byte ddr5
& get 139fps average with above average graphics now, before I was lucky if I got 60fps.
Here is what I had problem with my hdd it was a 500Gb 7200rpm , but only a 3Gb/s transfer I replaced it with a 1Tb 7200rpm 6Gb/s 128Gb cache Hdd. Zoom not a ssd but almost three times the performance on WOW.

http://imgur.com/Iyf2bLF?

You could move your WOW to your SDD, but that is not going to help you everywhere else. Try adjusting your settings in WOW Max is not always best, I can pump up my WOW graphics to max & drop lot of FBS down to about 39fbs average & long map load time. Also I run Razer Cortex which optimizes my game defrags memory then starts WOW in full screen mode.

https://www.razerzone.com/cortex

Your build looks Awesome!
To me it looks like your settings are off in wow & I do not know your HDD r/w speed, your SDD want show improvements in game unless your game is r/w to it, SSD will boost system boot if you have OS on it.
One other thing to get max read/write speeds you need to be running Windows 10 64byte.
 
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