Quote Originally Posted by Delsus View Post
I would say thats because of your CPU, even though its at 3.2GHz an i7 has features that help to improve performance, like turbo boost (if its needed) and hyperthreading, which your CPU doesnt.
Few games make use of hyperthreading (and I doubt FFXIV does -- I could be wrong though) and in the cases that the games do not, most actually suffer a slight performance hit if HT is enabled. Again, this is usually very small, but it certainly doesn't help in the games that do not support it.