I recently purchased a high performance Windows desktop computer with the belief that the upgrades in memory, CPU, and storage would show a measurable increase in SAS performance.    When running some of the standard daily SAS tasks, the performance seemed sluggish. After timing the tasks on an older, off the shelf Staples computer, the high performance computer is about forty percent slower.     Both computers have been imaged with the same version of Windows 10 and the same version of SAS. We use a software deployment application so that every computer gets the same install.   I have created a "not very good" benchmark program that creates and then sorts a billion record SAS dataset. The high performance computer is still ten to twenty-five percent slower than the standard desktop using this program.   Any suggestions on what could be the cause of the performance bottleneck?         ... View more