Alright so my specs are

gtx 570

i5 4670

so on and so forth I also have an ssd

Point is for some reason when I look at a group of people my fps dips below 30 sometimes which is alarming. I thought that my processor could handle this unoptimized game but...

If you were dropping into the single digits, you would have something to worry about. If your first entering a cell, the game has to rev up all it's scripts, so if your measuring frame rates at cell load, they will drop. NPCs will cause the game to slow down as they are the most script intensive, that is why there are not more of them. Most people clamp the game to 40 to 50 for butter smooth play. This masks the FPS drops that occur and avoids the issues that you can get when running the game at 60 FPS.

One thing that helps is, weirdly enough:

Turn off the gamepad rumble in the prefs file My Documents/My Games/Skyrim, find this line and make it look like this:

bGamePadRumble=0

I don't notice these drops at all, but I also have a mod that tells all the NPCs to ignore me unless I speak to them, so perhaps my script load is less than normal (I doubt it, I think it is more the frame rate clamp) Also, make sure you have the unofficial patches, for the game and the DLC, it does optimize some scripts so the game runs better, but mostly it fixes a lot of bugs.

I thought an i5 4670 would have been more than adequate to run skyrim on 60 fps if its just on cell load though that would make sense. I'll see if it is before I go about posting again.

Alright so I just reinstalled skyrim and instead of setting itself at ultra it set itself as high. I think something might be off here, I was pulling 60fps constantly previously while staring at npcs and now I am pulling less as well as I seem to have a lower graphics rating...