Unable to detect directX and FFXIV close itself.

[Fear]

Also, a couple nitpicks: The i7, while a good CPU, cannot run FFXIV on its own (CPUs are really horrible at graphics calculation and don't cut it in modern games).

Got to stop you there as this is rubish, before I got my graphics card I was playing FFXIV on my Intel i5 2500k's intergrated graphics, I had to turn some settings down such as res. to 6 but it ran fairly stable at 25-30FPS, you can easily overclock the graphics in a K series, I upped my intergrated from 1100Mhz to 1400Mhz and it ran very well, scored 1000 in the benchmark to.