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Before you go upgrading hardware and spending money, you can check a couple of things to narrow down your variables:

• If you're using the latest NVidia drivers, it has a GPU temperature monitor. Open that when you're having issues and post what temps you're seeing. Typically <80C is OK for GPUs. If you're going over 80, it needs attention.
• Download CoreTemp and run it. Report what your core temps are (all 4) when you're seeing the problem. Typically, sub 75C is fine. A good air heatsink should keep a Q series below 55-60C even when multiboxing.
• Go into the WoW advanced video settings and start disabling checkboxes one at a time and see if one of those makes the problem go away. You will have to restart the clients for some of those. As an example, my old ATI 5850 would absolutely choke (5fps) when I turned on terrain highlighting. Disabling that one setting and the card would run liquid smooth at 60fps.

[edit] Despite setting things to LOW graphics, some checkboxes may still be enabled.

Also, you can go into the NVidia control panel and set the 3D settings to "high performance" and turn off things like anisotropic filtering, antialiasing, etc.