Do you have any .htaccess files in any of your UBB directories? Do any of them indicate to use a different PHP version?

The PHP info page in the control panel is a generic phpinfo() page, which just reads out what the server is reporting.

Fyi, the 5.6 branch of PHP is quite fast.

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