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Probably because there's no way to know what's causing it without the OP being more specific? He obviously knows when and in what area he gets FPS drops so being more specific about that is kinda necessary.
Also, guys, sell your potatoes and buy something that can at least run Microsoft Word. Seriously.
Spazzy - going for loads of cores won't improve your performance in freelancer because it doesn't support multi threading. So basically you've got one extremely underpowered core instead of eight good ones.