9800 Pro and Aquamark 3 (huge performance hit)

Programs that I run all the time that greatly effect benchmarks is Mother
Board Monitor (MBM), Winfast TV, the program for my PCI TV card, Icon
Monitor (A tool for my 6-in-1 reader and Crystal Control for my LCD display.
You would be surprised how much these little programs steal from your
performance.

"Fitz" wrote in message
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After much discussion about which program(s) could be using up resources,
and the possibility of a virus/worm, I decided to eliminate those
potential
problems. I did the following:

Flashed BIOS
Deleted RAID array and reformatted both SATA HD and one ATA HD (low-level
format using BIOS utility on SATA drives)
Re-created RAID array
Clean install of Windows XP (slipstreamed with XP2)
Installed chipset drivers
Installed ATI Omega drivers
Installed Aquamark 3
Ran benchmark- SAME RESULT. Absoluely no difference at all.

Are we down to hardware?

Fitz

Found it! It was the chipset drivers. I was using the latest from the NVidia
website. I uninstalled them and used the drivers from the motherboard
(Gigabyte) website and performance improve drastically. Overall score 45000+
with CPU up over 9000 again.

Thanks for the input...
Fitz