[Genef01]

I have 2 machines running at home both with Intel 17 920s and Asus motherboards with Vista Ultimate 64bit installed.

1 board is the Rampage II Gene, with 12gb OCZ Gold DDR3 ram and a Diamond Radeon 4890. Everything is set to factory settings, no overclocking yet. The best I have seen on the index is 5.9, with all the subcategories showing 5.9. The hard drive is a Western Digital "Black" 1 TB. Also have 2 optical drives, 1 HP super- multi with Lightscribe and the other is a LG super-multi. All this is in an Antec 300 box with an Antec 750W power supply. All the drive connections are SATA.

The second board is an Asus P6T SE with 6gb Corsair Dominator DDR3 ram
and an XFX Radeon 4760. Everything is set to factory settings with no overclocking yet. The best I have seen on the index with this one is also 5.9 but the processor score is 7.5 and the memory score is 7.4. The rest of the subcategories are a flat 5.9. The hard drive is a Western Digital
VelociRaptor 300gb . Also have 2 optical drives, 1 HP super- multi with Lightscribe and the other is a LG super-multi. This is in a midtower with an Antec 750W power supply. Again all the drives are SATA.

I have tried the SATA drives set to IDE and AHCI with no improvement either way.

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions to improve the performance?

Thanks,

Gene