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Dewdman42

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Jul 25, 2008
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I have MP5,1 which has been upgraded to the max that can be done.

A year ago and before I was routinely benchmarking it around 670 single core, 6500 multicore.

I haven't benched in a while. I recently tried it and I'm still getting the same single core score around 670, but for some reason the multi-core won't get over 5400ish. That is a 1000 point drop!

Same version of GeekBench in all cases. Same version of OSX. Same hardware...the only exception to the hardware is that I installed an airport extreme wifi/BT card a few weeks ago, but I have both wifi and bluetooth turned off for the test. But all CPU, memory, etc..exactly the same.

I have also gone through and stopped all apps, services, deaomons, etc..

I have also done this test with a new fresh install of OSX, same result

Here is screen shot of history... the 6500 scores were a year ago...

What could be going on that is causing this? The only other software change I guess would be some kind of security update that might have caused it?


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