I wonder if my issues are coming via my harddrive. My GPU is running ~50c, CPU ~40c, my connection is constant. The main part in the dungeon where I experience extreme choppiness is at the oger fight, skeleton room, and final boss fight. This happens everytime. Outside the dungeon everything is normal.

When I said extreme choppiness I mean everything will freeze for 1~3 seconds at times. I always think ok it's about to crash, but lucky me it never has. Just very annoying.

Off the top of my head here is my desktop stats. I'll update once at home.

Amd phenom II x4 965 BE @ 3.8Ghz
4gb ocz ram @1600
amd 6850 @900/1050
WD caviar black 750gb hd (3gps)
windows 7 64 bit (all updates applied)
catalyst 11.6b (all stats using application settings)
all setting via FFXIV configuration @ standard except shadows at low (turned off in game) AO, DoF off, no AA. Running windowed @ 1600 x900 (I get tearing at full screen 1920 x 1080) ><;