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    Why do my benchmarks suck so bad?

    :beer: Turns out after much pulling of hair that it was my CPU getting too hot. I noticed that the CPU was running at 80 deg C. Checked the heat sink and saw that it was not seated properly. It is now and everything is happy. Funny thing about the problem is that the more time I spent...
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    Why do my benchmarks suck so bad?

    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...