nvidia 295GTX owner: what to expect?

[highness]

yo

i have an nvidia 295GTX with the latest 280.26 running on win7 64bit with i5 and 8gb of ram. I have il2cod with the latest patch (steam) . So far, i have tried all possible tricks and settings and im still having a barely acceptable fps. (15-23fps) im running il2cod all set to medium at 1920x1200 60hz with antialiasing 1x ; vsync and ssao ON. I just don't understand how other people are managing to get higher / acceptable fps with lesser hardware specs than me? or is the what i'm getting with the 295gtx is all what can be expected?