Weird issue with new computer.

[Reprisal]

I recently built a new computer for 5boxing. It worked great for about a month until 4 days ago when I suddenly started getting really bad drops in fps, mostly in Dalaran and a few spots in Icecrown. With max settings on my main and one notch above minimum on the 4 slaves I normally get 60 on my main and set my slaves for 30, which is what I get except for in Dalaran when my main drops to about 40, but nothing you would really notice. But it recently started going back and forth from under 10 fps for a few seconds, then back up to 40-60 for a few seconds and repeats until I either stop moving (in which the random drop in fps stops) or leave Dalaran. It’s not an overheating issue which was my first guess, my CPU never goes above 40C and my GPU never goes about 65C (I e-mailed the manufacturer and they said the card runs well even into mid 80sC). My processor almost never goes above 50 percent usage and my memory stays around 60 percent usage. All the drivers are updated. Unfortunately I can’t find anything helpful online so I thought I would try here as to why it would suddenly start acting up after a month of near perfect performance.

Amd Phenom II x6
Raedon HD 5830
8gb DDR3 1600mhz
850Watt Modular Power Supply
Windows 7

[F9thRet]

Wasn't there a slow down on the last Radeon Driver set? 10 something?

I know some people rolled it back to the previous one.

Stephen

[Khatovar]

Yeah, some of us had issues with the 10.8 driver. Rolling back to 10.7 is the "fix". ;)

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=31807

[Reprisal]

Great, thank you for the responses, I just rolled back to 10.7. We'll see how it goes when wow comes back online.