Performance on E6600 w/2Gb RAM - Help Please!?!?!?!

I have what I thought was a pretty good performing system until I did a little benchmarking and it seems my system is about 30% slower than comparable systems with the same processor/memory configuration. My systme spec's according to CPU-Z.

Runnong on a Gigabyte DS3 i965 motherboard

Processor
Core 2 E6600 @ 2.40Ghz
Core Speed: 2400.1Mhz
Multiplier: x 9.0
Bus Speed: 266.7 Mhz
Rated FSB 1066.6Mhz

Memory (Channels# Dual)
2 - 1Gb Sticks = 2Gb Memory
Corsair PC2-6400 (400Mhz) XM2X1024-6400
Frequency: 400.0Mhz
FSBRAM: 2:3
CAS# Latency: 5.0 Clocks
RAS# to CAS# Delay: 5 clocks
RAS# Precharge: 5 clocks
Cycle Time (Tras): 18 clocks
(the rest is greyed)

Obviously I don't overclock my system and the systems I'm comparing too aren't overclocking either. The drive subsystem is not a problem. The performance issues are solely somehwere between CPU and Memory. It seems the issues are CPU/Memory related. The SPD of the memory in CPU reports the above matched settings too.

Any ideas as to what my problem might be? I really appreciate anybodys help..

Thanks!!

Jon

I do video editing work and I'm comparing my results rendering a file to many other users in a forum who are posting their timed results. They are able to render the same particular file in about 240 - 260 seconds, while my machine is taking in the 300 second range. There are about 20 or so people who are all getting pretty similiar results with a similiar configuration and I'm the only guy getting the slow times.

I was wondering if perhaps my memory timings weren't correct or maybe the default multiplier wasn't right, etc.

MrQuinn,

Thanks for the reply. I was about 90% sure that everything I had going was looking alright. Of course, like you said, I've checked out those things. I'm not even running Virus software on this thing. Just needed to make sure I wasn't nuts and that everything I had running was in fact ok.

Thanks so much!

Jon

minty,

Are you running Sony Vegas 7.0e ? The test compresses a .veg file within that program?