High end system, still lowish FPS

[XiaoMaomi]

In my experience putting General Drawing Quality to 10 is more taxing than turning AO on. That is your problem.

I get 60FPS 98% the time with a 6970(@950), i7-930(@4.0) and only 6GB(1600) of ram.
Settings are as follows:
1920x1080
16xQ CSAA
GDQ: 8
BDQ: 5
Shadow: Highest
AO: Off
DoF: Off
Texture Quality: High
Texture Filtering: Highest

[tizubythefizo]

@Xiao

You'd still think the GTX590 (2 slightly underclocked 580's) would be enough to power GDQ on it's highest though

I'm actually considering throwing down another 700 bucks in 2 months to pop in another 590 for quad sli. Any games have slowdown with that and I'd have to slap a dev,lol

I'll turn it down and see what I get, but I still don't think that should be that much of a FPS killer

update to follow
**Update**

Turned GDQ down to 8, and tested with 16xQ CSAA and no AA

Framerate still would not go above 45ish FPS in town. With no AA it dipped down in the 30's a little less, but not enough to be significant. Don't think GDQ is the issue

**Further update**
I temporarily OC'd by increasing CPU ratio to 30, voltage to 1.35 which brought me up to 4008.85 mHz
ran FFXIV (after a 10 minute prime95 run for a quick stability check) and there was little, if any increase. Still hovered around the 40 FPS range. CPU apparently isn't the bottleneck, as there should have been some kind of increase but there wasn't.

This is really frustrating, I literally can't find any reason not to be having a solid 60 fps.