Highly populated areas will always yield low FPS, but you will get 60 FPS at 1440 at pretty much anywhere with that gpu, if your cpu is weak, you may still need to tone down the shadows and physics, this isn't a physX game.

Btw to the person doing recordings, get DXtory instead, FRAPs just eats hardware no matter what you have and its quality isnt far off from it.

Wait til end of jan for prices to drop as AMD new gpus are coming out, still get the 970 because it seems SE have done optimisation with Nvidia first.