If you upgraded to an Ivy Bridge i5-3450, and supposing you have enough RAM to not bottleneck there, I would expect you to get around 60fps while questing on highest settings (unless you’re using a particularly high resolution).
I’ve done group events and every time I’ve checked the fps, it’s still around 50-60 in group fights. I still haven’t done WvWvW, but I’ll be curious to see how much of a drop I get there.
With a CPU upgrade, I would expect dramatic improvement.
However, there are issues with the nVidia cards right now – I’d ask other 560ti users what they’re getting with a better processor. I know the nVidia 6xx line is having big problems, but not sure about the 5xx.
From this, I have just upgraded froman E5200 to the i5-3450 and I use a GTS 250,
my avg fps does not drop below 40 fps now even when I go into WvWvW in a large seige, it’s stayed at a consistent 30-40 fps
This is a significant improvement, as I was getting 20-30 FPS in general before and in large WvWvW seiges i dropped to below 7FPS
The next thing for me of course is a GPU upgrade, but it is more then playable now that my framerate barely drops no matter where I am, and it was all in part of the upgrade of CPU
definatly going to look into the above combo