FPS Drops?

[chocochip95]

Hey guys,
Recently got back into playing wow again, and all of a sudden i keep getting these fps drops whilst playing that i never got before.
I have an Nvidia gefore GT740M, running on windows 8.1, intel core i 5 @ 2.60ghz and have 4gb of ram.
I used to run wow fine, but now it seems to freeze up and i get constant fps drops.
If anyone knows how to help i'd be very grateful, cheers.

[Uzephi]

How old is your HDD? What does bench at? 4gigs of RAM should be enough, if your HDD sendnig the information fast enough. I run 8gigs of ram and only ran in issue when trying to play the game and using dxtory to record on the same drive. The FPS stutter stopped when I recorded to my secondary drive. That reduced the stress on the main drive. Below is a good HDD benchmarking tool. You should be above 75MB/s r/w speed. I say that number as my main drive does 145MB/s and I tried recording (writing at roughly 85MB/s) and had issues running the game during loading of new textures and NPCs while recording on the same drive.

https://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm
This program I found to do the best overall HDD testing.