I just built a new system-- MSI P6N SLI Platinum mobo, Core 2 Duo 6600 CPU, 2G Mushkin DDR2 8500 XP ram.
By all rights this should be a fast system, yet when I run benchmarks like PerformanceTest 6.1 and 3D Mark, the perf results I see are ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE less than they should be. My CPU...