It's a pain when Photoshop CS2 panics the machine 5 times in a row when I'm trying to get work done. But then I also had a flaky RAM module I replaced at the same time as today's upgrade, and there were some other "phase of the moon" issues. "Maybe" answer: There were some stability issues that I never tracked down and I started getting the gut feeling that it might be a CPU bug. "Yes" answer: For most of my needs, the single G4 OWC upgrade rocked.
Second question: Wasn't the 1.33 Ghz OWC processor fast enough to meet your needs. In the real world this is a true measure of how a single application will cook on the processor, but it isn't being dragged down at all by the other tasks running under OS X - which also rocks on a dual CPU machine. Something that measures the base CPU ability. the XBench application, for the most part, only beats on one of the processors. Note- The dual G4 benchmark doesn't represent the true picture. I'll get into the "gotchas" in a minute, but first let me wow you with some raw performance data. The transition from the OWC 1.33 GHz single G4 was not without a few glitches, and I had a graduation party to attend mid afternoon, so the applied time to figure this all out and work around the issues took somewhere around 4-1/2 hours. For a shade under $600 Other World Computing shipped a Sonnet Duet 1.8 GHz G4 processor upgrade to me on a Saturday Morning - 9:30AM - And I'm creating this web page at 5:00PM running on this wicked dual processor G4 tower. This weekend (early June, 2006) I upgraded my G4 Digital Audio to it's ultimate performance level. It helps that the application is absolutely free.Marc's Notes: Comments, Ramblings, Rants & Tips G4 Digital Audio CPU Benchmarks It seems to be the standard in the Mac community. Whenever I read an article on Mac benchmarking, Xbench is always one of the methods used.
After testing is done, you can save the results to a file for later reference or to share them with other users. Once you start the process, the tests will begin and you will see the results in real time.
You have to select the hard drive which you want to test on from the volume drop-down menu. Those are: CPU test, Thread test, Memory test, Disk test, Quartz graphics test, OpenGL tests and User Interface tests. The 32-bit edition can be installed on 32-bit and 64-bit Windows machines. Installing ApSIC Xbench ApSIC Xbench 3.0 is available in 32-bit and 64-bit editions. Mac xbench update found at, xbench.en., download. Look at most relevant Mac xbench update websites out of 54.9 Thousand at. 'The New York Times' A remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain. 'The New York Times' aMind-bending, miracle-making, reality-busting stuff with implications for all human beings.a a'The New York Times' aA remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.a aOliver Sacks aThe power of positive thinking finally gains scientific credibility.a a'The New York Times' Mind-bending, miracle-making, reality-busting stuff with implications for all human beings. Xbench starts with a very small window that allows you to check or uncheck the different available tests. With the image file from which Xbench installs, you will be able to open the baseline results file, which shows what the average results are. In this case, Xbench analyzes pretty much every aspect of your Mac and it grades it against baseline results. In short, benchmarking is analyzing the performance of something. Xbench is a very popular benchmarking solution for Mac computers. Fixed an issue that causes Xbench to fail to launch on Leopard.Added support for temporarily turning off beam sync on Tiger while running graphics tests.Added code to dynamically load machine database on launch from the Xbench website.Revised machine database to include the MacBook, Intel iMac and several other models.This also raises Xbench's system requirements to 10.3.9 or higher. This provides some boost to floating point and AltiVec scores, and these have been recalibrated accordingly. Switched compiler to GCC 4.0 on PowerPC.Turned off coalesced graphics updates for all platforms on Mac OS 10.4.4 and higher.Corrected a mistake that caused the altivec test to be turned off on PowerPC machines.
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