Upgraded my CPU and am very pleased

If you have a monitor that runs at 60hz then your FPS will NOT exceed 60fps. Simply because your monitor cannot draw the frames any faster.
When it tries to you get screen tearing. So the frames you think you are getting are being lost. it's simply that the primary buffer in your GPU is trying to push more frames on screen per second than your monitor can handle.

So all these people saying they get 60+ fps are lying. It may still show in a fps counter that you are getting more because that is possibly what your rig is capable of.
But you are not getting those frames, they are lost as your monitor cannot draw them quickly enough.
So unless you have a monitor that supports above that refresh rate you will not get those frame rates.
If you don't believe me I can link an article about it.
Just a heads up for people.

the one on the LEFT is current FPS, the one on the right is the average FPS.

the only one you need to worry about is the one on the right.

And some let thier imaginations exceed reality. The turth is, most cannot tell any difference between 30 and 60 fps when conducted in a non bias condition. Not saying this applies to all, but to most it does.

I understand that you feel your rig should be able to pull off that scenario at the "highest possible graphic settings," but it's important to realize what a petty complaint this is. On my i5 with 560gtx, I tweak my graphics settings to low for huge Ilum battles and only rarely drop to 25fps. It's very playable.

The point is: a lot of these threads are giving people the wrong impression (I know this because I had the wrong impression before upgrading) --- i.e. that ToR Ilum is going to be a slideshow no matter what you do with your comp. But now I know that's just not true, and that, in fact, even relatively inexpensive ($700) upgrades can make large open world PvP very viable.

These threads need to stop misleading people into thinking ToR WZ and open world are unplayable, when in fact it's just that some people consider anything under 60fps with highest possible settings to be "lag fest".

If you have a monitor that runs at 60hz then your FPS will NOT exceed 60fps. Simply because your monitor cannot draw the frames any faster.
When it tries to you get screen tearing. So the frames you think you are getting are being lost. it's simply that the primary buffer in your GPU is trying to push more frames on screen per second than your monitor can handle.

So unless you have a monitor that supports above that refresh rate you will not get those frame rates.
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they make 120hz monitors.

even 240 hz.

I not only feel it should perform better, I expect and insist on it.
I agree, that you don't need 60 fps for fluent playing, but 15 dps is somewhat at the limit. it's exactly the limit where occasional littel freezes occur, which are a no go for PvPing.

I have no problem with hardware crunching engines, if the result is appropriate, I adapt, but if I look on Illum, I wonder about the cost-benefit analysis.

Is this true?
And let's hear from the people that are having the rates above 60...
are your monitors above 60hz?

I had a 2.2GHz amd phenom x4 and upgraded to a i5 2500k. The i5 rofl stomps this game. I also have an msi 560ti twinfrozer2/oc. I have all graphics settings maxed out besides aa is on low and get 100+ fps besides in illums major battles I bog down to about 40fps which is completely payable. That is due to the servers not the "bad code".