i7 920 OC 3.3ghz – ATI 5870 (12.8 without cap 2) – 8gb ddr3.
I’m personally getting a constant 60 fps in all areas of game except for major cities and during relatively big fights in wvw. My PC is just under 4 years old and I’m very happy with the performance, this is also using High Settings for all options with native FXAA.
Remember 2000000 people have purchased the game and although there are a number of people having fps problems the majority of users are happy with there frame rates.
I am confident alot of players with low fps problems posting on the forums are more or less not familiar with optimizing windows correctly.
I do agree that this game is much more demanding than what the minimum requirements suggest and there are still plenty of optimizations that need to be considered by the devs. But if your rig is more up to date than mine and you are having issues with fps, I can only assume your running alot of CPU dependent process’ in the background. I personally have 37 process’ running while playing the game.