I just decided to do my weekly check for further degradation - a quick 10k fft in Orthos.
I found the weirdest thing. Not sure what it says if anything at all, but I will test more later.
In a nutshell, the box I'm on has two raptors, not in raid but both running XP PRO SP2 and a bunch of apps, and both able to run tests. They're both pretty fresh installs, within 2 weeks.
So here's the weird part - I go to test 10kffts while I take a nap, the same saved setting that passed last week - 8.5x500, 1.325vcore. The test bombs instantly and I try run blend, bombs instantly too. SO I go to bios and confirm everything is the same as I have on paper for last weeks test. Bummer. it is, and I think it's slid further down the hill. So for the hell of it, I decide to boot up into the other raptor and run the same tests with the same settings of course. What do you know, 10K passes no problem just like last week. That tells me there's some software or OS issue going on on the first raptor. Like I said earlier, the OS installs are fresh, so I kinda doubt it's that. Also, the one it passed on is my "play" drive, with music, games etc, the other is work drive which I keep pretty clean. It's backwards to what I'd expect.
Apps running were -Smart Guardian, Core Temp and Orthos.
I still need to do more research into this and see just what services are running in each install, but I think they're close to identical.
Anyway, we'll see. I've thrashed OS many times in the past and had to install to get accurate result, but it doesn't seem like it this time. I'm going to see what I can find in these conditions first and then reistall the OS to see if that's what's happened.
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