Quote Originally Posted by 'Fursphere',index.php?page=Thread&postID=177400#po st177400
Ok, for kicks try going into your BIOS and disabling hyper threading all together.

I know, its a long shot...
I don't think I'm ready to try that quite yet. I don't want to gimp my system in other respects.

Thanks for all the suggestions though, I'll try some more stuff out tomorrow and this weekend.