sotn (1/14/2013)

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I think this is fixed.

We have found that the CPU settings in the bios were set to balanced

Thanks SQLRNNR for the pointer.

A 'real' workload before changing the setting now takes just a 3rd of the time, we are doing more tests and my simple select * from 1 million rows takes between half and a third of the cpu ms time.

Thanks for all the replies.