FFXIV Only - Low Benchmark Score and Low FPS on decent settings. Puzzled.

[nasomi]

take 532 and multiply it by the number of ram sticks you have. 2? 3? 4?

532 x 2 = 1064 MHZ (a bit low)

532 x 3 = 1596 MHZ (average)

532 x 4 = 2128 MHZ (basically the equivalent of my system but I only use 3 sticks)

Can't do it quite like that. If your mobo has 4 or 6 slots, it will determine the speed differently.

If you have 4 slots, you'll have 2 sets of 2 for DDR(double data rate) that it can write to simultamiously, so if you have matched pairs in slot 1 and 3, it can use DDR. If you have 6 slots you'll have 2 sets of 3, for which you need 3 identical pieces of ram, in slots 1, 3, 5, to achieve the DDR benefit.

You can't just multiply the number of sticks by the speed, and hte multiplier doesn't go over 3, it's x2 for patched pair or x3 for matched set of 3, and only if they're in the proper configuration.