USB 2.0 HDD & flash drive performance any faster with Inte chipset?

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irock

macrumors member

Original poster

• Jan 24, 2006

• #1

Hi, now that Intel ICH7 is driving iMac's USB 2.0 bus. Do you think the new USB 2.0 chipset will provide much faster speed than the lame USB implementations on PowerBook G4 and iMac G5?

Is there any benchmark software to use for testing this kind of thing?

 

Heb1228

macrumors 68020

• Jan 24, 2006

• #2

xBench and others should be able to test this. I'm also interested to see the results.

 

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irock

macrumors member

Original poster

• Jan 24, 2006

• #3

Well I only have the PowerBook G4 17" and iMac Intel 17". Do you think their USB 2.0 scores will be any representative in a comparison?

 

CanadaRAM

macrumors G5

• Jan 24, 2006

• #4

Do you think the new USB 2.0 chipset will provide much faster speed

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In a word, no.

USB still consumes CPU time regardless of platform, and is not built for sustained transfer, so it should be proportionately slow.