Mac Pro & Final Cut Pro X Choppy Playback?

I just purchased FCP X and have a problem during playback its really choppy, This is my system info if that helps
Mac Pro Desktop
Monitors 30" & 24"
Processor  2 x 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Memory  10 GB 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC
Graphics  NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512 MB
Software  OS X 10.9.5 Which just got Upgraded to 10.10.1
I load AVI files in and there not choppy but I loaded a MP4 and its really choppy while playing back before I export any ideas? I have an extra drive in side its a 1TB SATA Disk that I store the files on. The FCP is installed on the main drive which is 640GB SATA Disk.

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