2.7 xbench test

[billyergs]

I scored 315 on the xbench test with a dual 2.7 with 2.5 gig of ram and x800...is this good? anyway to get a better score?

 

[wrc fan]

get an xserve raid to improve your hard drive performance ok, any raid will improve it, and that is the slowest part of your computer.

 

[billyergs]

How much would that cost?

 

[wrc fan]

it depends how serious you are about it. it can be as simple/cheap as getting another SerialATA hard drive and software raiding them together using disk utility, or as expensive/high performance as $12,999 to get a 5.6TB xserve raid, and $500 for a fibre card to attach it to your G5. And of course there are many variations in between using firewire 800 or a SerialATA PCI card.

Really though, unless you're super rich and need to burn money or have a specific need for it (like you're doing digital video), your dual G5 is wicked fast and you don't need to do anything to it.

 

[sunilraman]

Push that GPU

I scored 315 on the xbench test with a dual 2.7 with 2.5 gig of ram and x800...is this good? anyway to get a better score?

x800... sweet. get giofx Chimera
http://www.giofx.net/osx/chimera.htm

and run some 3d scenes through it to try out performance with
anisotropic filtering
fullscreen anti-aliasing
light, bump, environment maps, etc

and for fun..!

overclock your ATI. yes this is possible on Mac ATIs
http://thomas.perrier.name/software/ATIcceleratorII.html

also do some test encoding of h.264 clips with quicktime 7

playback 1080p high-definition video