Hello all, I'm RTB, a Java and C# developer who just purchased a pallette at his local state surplus store with two powermacs on it. I'm curious which is more powerful. I wikipedia'd the Late 2005 and it has more L2 Cache and faster DDR2 ram. I'm thinking it might just edge out the higher clocked 2.7Ghz model, but not sure how they compare "clock for clock." Any opinions?
By the way, I revamped the (leaky) liquid cooling in the 2.7 model following a guide, averting any damage and I am confident it will no longer leak, so let that be forgotten in the comparison. I am looking at raw performance. I will be using this as a development box to develop PowerPC software ports for the community, I'm going to start by learning some Objective C.
I'm a Java programmer as I said, so I believe heavily in that technology (that and C# via mono). I believe Java on the PowerPC (an architecture I loved but could never afford until now) has been sadly neglected and I am interested in trying to port the OpenJDK 7 and the Shark JIT to PowerPC, so we can finally have a good Java version in our system with native quartz and all that. Once that is done, I hope to use a "package manager" I have been writing in Java to create a PPC "App store" of sorts to facilitate distribution of software. I'll keep you guys informed.
In the meantime, what's a better performer? I want to fully deck either one out with all the upgrades possible, but will the extra cache really give the 2.3Ghz DC an edge over the 2.7Ghz DP?
Thanks in advance!
-RTB
By the way, I revamped the (leaky) liquid cooling in the 2.7 model following a guide, averting any damage and I am confident it will no longer leak, so let that be forgotten in the comparison. I am looking at raw performance. I will be using this as a development box to develop PowerPC software ports for the community, I'm going to start by learning some Objective C.
I'm a Java programmer as I said, so I believe heavily in that technology (that and C# via mono). I believe Java on the PowerPC (an architecture I loved but could never afford until now) has been sadly neglected and I am interested in trying to port the OpenJDK 7 and the Shark JIT to PowerPC, so we can finally have a good Java version in our system with native quartz and all that. Once that is done, I hope to use a "package manager" I have been writing in Java to create a PPC "App store" of sorts to facilitate distribution of software. I'll keep you guys informed.
In the meantime, what's a better performer? I want to fully deck either one out with all the upgrades possible, but will the extra cache really give the 2.3Ghz DC an edge over the 2.7Ghz DP?
Thanks in advance!
-RTB