Short answer is yes, absolutely.
Lots of reasons.
As John said, tell us more. 1.6 is rather low nowdays, so I'm thinking laptop?
Several things to try, but start by addressing John's questions. Also download and run the free utility, Geekbench, and report the single-core score.
There is a setting in Options, Preferences, RealTracks to address the problem John cited. And there are other related settings, all without touching the operating system. But we need to know more.
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