Or just find those ~2 settings that are always there in every game that eat tons of FPS for minor fidelity gain and turn them down. People are always gaga about running max settings, but I've never seen a game that didn't look almost as good with like 1-3 settings on medium instead of max, but gets 10-20 FPS better.
This, so much this. Maxing games out is pretty dumb these days because not even a Titan can "max out" games at 1080p in some newer titles; basically, use common sense and lower the 2-3 settings that have the largest effect on framerate without an IQ increase. For instance, crysis 3 looks identical on Very high and high quality settings. The thing is, very high runs 20-25 fps slower consistently. In Metro 2033 ADOF causes such a tremendous loss of framerate it's ridiculous, and it doesn't increase visual quality whatsoever. There are many more examples I could mention as well.
Maxing games out became untenable and pretty stupid several years ago. It's just a common sense issue - you don't need 2000$ worth of GPUs to play a game. Just lower 2-3 settings, image quality won't decrease, and generally speaking every AAA game has 2-3 settings that lowers framerate by a ton without a corresponding image quality increase. Lower those settings by 1 notch and you'll be good to go.
Or if you want to blow 2 grand on Titans to "max" games out at 1600p go right ahead, some folks apparently get some sort of self-pride out of being able to proclaim "Hey I spent 2 grand to max games out". Whatever. I think most folks opt for the common sense approach rather than the 2-3 grand approach.