Help! big inexplicable performance drop!

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shadyJ

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I built this conroe e6400 system about a couple weeks ago and it was working fine until this morning. For no reason I can fathom, the performance just fell by two thirds! I ran 3dmark06 and it scored 2,210, whereas yesterday it scored well over 8,000! Performance like that dropped for all games. How do I test the CPU to rule it out? What benchmarks can I use and what scores should I expect? How can I isolate the cause? I didn't do anything to the computer in the time it took the performance hit! I changed no settings at all.

Here is my system specs:
e6400 OC'd to 2.84 Ghz
Crucial tenth anniversary, 2 gigs (not overclocked)
eVGA 680i motherboard
XFX 8800 GTS video card (not overclocked [yet])
E-MU 1820 sound card
windows XP pro, sp2
all drivers are the latest.

Please, someone help!
 
Your CPU shouldn't be causing a performance drop in games. I suggest running spyware/adware scans, etc.
 
check system temps? Maybe something happened with the thermal compound...

If temps are ok, then do a full reformat.
 
I uninstalled and reinstalled the graphics drivers, that seemed to do the trick. I only wish I knew what caused the problem in the first place.
 
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