Some performance observations + graphics settings that have an effect

[Urobulusff]

Keep in mind also that they still need to optimize the game (no it's not fully optimized yet) and that better drivers need to be released from both nVidia and ATi for this game.

i7 3770k OC'ed @ 5.0GHz
SLI x2 EVGA GTX 780 ACX Superclocked @ 1200MHz / 6800MHz (custom OCTI vBios)
Ripjaws 16 gigs of RAM @ 1866
Samsung SSD 840 Pro
Everything watercooled.

I clearly have something that is goddamn overkill for this game, and should run it at 60 FPS locked at all time on Maximum Presets (doing it most of the time), but when I get in cities and some parts of the world it can drop as low as 30-35 FPS.

So yeah wait for better drivers, our rigss are not the culprits and we don't have bottlenecks, we just need better drivers / optimization.

[Kittra]

I find this all very interesting. I myself have a very nice computer for playing the game and am extremely pleased with the results. Even in extremely crowded areas I'm always at 60fps (Although there is this one wall in Ul'dah that will grind me down to 10fps if I look at it...)

I'm honestly surprised by some of the comments from people with PCs that would eat mine alive, and to find out they actually have problems o_o

My choice in PC setups is:
i7 3770k (Overclocked to 4.6ghz)
24gb of Kingston HyperX Blu Memory @ 1600mhz
Samsung 830 SSD 250gb
ASUS GTX 670 4GB (at stock speeds)

I found just the opposite of the OP really. Running the game at Max settings my GPU is always reporting 99-100% usage, while my CPU is reporting 15-27% usage.
I can also run FRAPS at max resolution and still maintain 60fps in game.

For people having FPS problems but still wanting to run at "mostly" Max settings, I found on my older PCs that turning off other people's shadows and disabling the rendering of objects outside my line of sight gave me a pretty big boost to fps (about 15-20).

*EDIT*

I forgot to mention I'm running the latest beta drivers which seem to have had a HUGE impact on my performance.

[Tovonto]

Keep in mind also that they still need to optimize the game (no it's not fully optimized yet) and that better drivers need to be released from both nVidia and ATi for this game.

i7 3770k OC'ed @ 5.0GHz
SLI x2 EVGA GTX 780 ACX Superclocked @ 1200MHz / 6800MHz (custom OCTI vBios)
Ripjaws 16 gigs of RAM @ 1866
Samsung SSD 840 Pro
Everything watercooled.

I clearly have something that is goddamn overkill for this game, and should run it at 60 FPS locked at all time on Maximum Presets (doing it most of the time), but when I get in cities and some parts of the world it can drop as low as 30-35 FPS.

So yeah wait for better drivers, our rigss are not the culprits and we don't have bottlenecks, we just need better drivers / optimization.

I have pretty much the same set up and I'm also experiencing those weird drops in FPS, on the geforce forums people with 780 have reported this problem also, so maybe soon we'll get new drivers