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

[Hikozaemon]

So I've gathered a lot of informative knowledge from this thread and I'm putting everything in place. Nasomi you're suggesting with all of the hardware that I've listed, to scrap by modestly in FFXIV the GPU is the only absolute necessity? I may upgrade other things based upon all the advice, but the consensus seems to be the GPU being the biggest set back. Although I thought the dual core 3.2GHz CPU was nice ( since 3.2GHz sounds nice ), cpubenchmark really does have it's performance scored low for one reason or another.

all u need is a better graphics card period. though u most likely need a new power supply to support that graphics card.
you do not need better than a Dual core processor for this game its pointless.