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Jason Bourne said:
Result 19.3 seconds. Not bad and a whole lot quicker than I was getting with the sawtooth. This thing is speedy (probably a whole lot more than I need given what I mostly do is browse the web, do email, play MP3s and such).

LOL. Why would you ever buy the Quad if that is what you mostly do with it. An imac would have been such a better choice I would think and cheaper.
 
"quad"G5 2.7

my friend works in a studio and they recently got one of the "quad" (dual, dual-cure) G5s. i had the luck of being able to use it. so i was thinking of somthing i could do to benchmark it. so i rememberd benchmarking my PB 17" on this photoshop test. naturally he already had photoshop installed to i went and downloaded the stuff for the test. anyway i ended up taking 18 seconds on average. i tried it 3 times one was 19 and the others were 17.

soooo fast :eek: :eek:
 
mishi said:
my friend works in a studio and they recently got one of the "quad" (dual, dual-cure) G5s. i had the luck of being able to use it. so i was thinking of somthing i could do to benchmark it. so i rememberd benchmarking my PB 17" on this photoshop test. naturally he already had photoshop installed to i went and downloaded the stuff for the test. anyway i ended up taking 18 seconds on average. i tried it 3 times one was 19 and the others were 17.

soooo fast :eek: :eek:
How much RAM did it have?
 
I didn't use a stop watch ... just watched the time ... it was under just under 15 minutes on a

G4 400 mhz Sawtooth with 832 MB RAM on a 7200 RPM 8 MB 40 GIG hard drive in Photoshop CS

i was also surfing in safari and chatting on MSN using aMSN

anybody speculate what my machine might be able to do when i upgrade this machine to a DUAL 1.2 Ghz with a powerlogix processor upgrade, have 1.2 GIGS of ram and be running a SATA 250GIG 7200 rpm 16 MB hard drive?
 
benwa02 said:
LOL. Why would you ever buy the Quad if that is what you mostly do with it. An imac would have been such a better choice I would think and cheaper.

Four reasons:
1) Wanted the headroom. I'd like it to still be fast in 1-3 years.
2) Wanted to use a 30" ACD - so no iMac for me
3) There is something about owning the "best" product when possible. Certain things I can't afford the best of (cars, houses) but for smaller expenses (computers, guns, watches, cell phones, ipods, TVs, clothes, etc...) I don't mind spending more. So, for at least 6 months, I'll have the best mac.
4) One of my friends got one and I got jealous :D
 
Jason Bourne said:
Four reasons:
1) Wanted the headroom. I'd like it to still be fast in 1-3 years.
2) Wanted to use a 30" ACD - so no iMac for me
3) There is something about owning the "best" product when possible. Certain things I can't afford the best of (cars, houses) but for smaller expenses (computers, guns, watches, cell phones, ipods, TVs, clothes, etc...) I don't mind spending more. So, for at least 6 months, I'll have the best mac.
4) One of my friends got one and I got jealous :D

best 4 reasons i've ever heard ;) ... haha

i wish ... i'll probably be able to justify the expense of another top of the line mac around the REV B Intelmac

upgrading my current machine is what is in the cards for me
 
Jason Bourne said:
Four reasons:
1) Wanted the headroom. I'd like it to still be fast in 1-3 years.
2) Wanted to use a 30" ACD - so no iMac for me
3) There is something about owning the "best" product when possible. Certain things I can't afford the best of (cars, houses) but for smaller expenses (computers, guns, watches, cell phones, ipods, TVs, clothes, etc...) I don't mind spending more. So, for at least 6 months, I'll have the best mac.
4) One of my friends got one and I got jealous :D


And in 6 months time you'll buy the newest fastest thing on the planet, no? :rolleyes:
 
Jason Bourne said:
Four reasons:
1) Wanted the headroom. I'd like it to still be fast in 1-3 years.
2) Wanted to use a 30" ACD - so no iMac for me
3) There is something about owning the "best" product when possible. Certain things I can't afford the best of (cars, houses) but for smaller expenses (computers, guns, watches, cell phones, ipods, TVs, clothes, etc...) I don't mind spending more. So, for at least 6 months, I'll have the best mac.
4) One of my friends got one and I got jealous :D
No. 2 is one of the biggest reasons I got a Power Mac over an iMac.
 
Just did it on my new Mac.

Quad 2.5GHz
4GB DDR2 RAM
2x500GB Hard drives
nVidea 6600GT

20 seconds spot on. Very impressed.
 
Went to the Corte Madera, Ca Store yesterday and tested the following:

Dual 2.3 Ghz - CS2: :41 (tested once)

Quad 2.5 Ghz - CS2: :19 (tested 3 times)

Quad 2.5 Ghz - Photoshop Elements 3: :19 (tested once)

Interesting that Elements 3 tied CS2...
 
Jason Bourne said:
Four reasons:
1) Wanted the headroom. I'd like it to still be fast in 1-3 years.
2) Wanted to use a 30" ACD - so no iMac for me
3) There is something about owning the "best" product when possible. Certain things I can't afford the best of (cars, houses) but for smaller expenses (computers, guns, watches, cell phones, ipods, TVs, clothes, etc...) I don't mind spending more. So, for at least 6 months, I'll have the best mac.
4) One of my friends got one and I got jealous :D



Bling Bling.
 
Quad G5, 2.5 GB RAM: just under 18 seconds! :eek:

I wish I owned one, but having one at my desk at work ain't bad either.

EDIT: This was with CS1
 
54 seconds on dual xeon 3.4ghz

I just ran this on a work rig and it took 54 seconds

Photoshop CS2

specs

Dual 3.4ghz Xeon's (Cranford Cores)
2gb of DDR400 - 2x 1gb dimm's
120gb 7200rpm EIDE Drive (the bottleneck in this test) only 36mbps read speed
 
P 4 2.4ghz overclocked to 3ghz
512mhz pc 3200 ram
ati 9600xt video card


2:05 minutes
 
Dual Core (not dual processor) 2.3 G5
1.5 Gb Ram
6600 Graphics

Safari and iTunes running background.

43 Seconds.
 
I tested it on my mom's Dell Dimension 4700 again to see what I would get:

Dell Dimension 4700
Intel Pentium 4 w/ HT (2.8GHz, 800FSB)
512MB DDR2 RAM
40GB Serial ATA 7200RPM hard drive
Windows XP Home Edition SP2
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900
Adobe Photoshop CS (8)

Wow, the computer got 1:22 with Firefox running in the background! :eek:

This basically means that the Dell is twice as fast as my eMac is. You can't tell it. :D
 
iMac G5
1.9GHz
512MB
7200RPM
1:58

iBook G4
1.42GHz
1.5GB
4200RPM
2:12

Both running Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.3 - Running Photoshop CS
 
14 sec

14 secs

CS2
Quad G5@2.5GHz (Dual Dual Core G5)
12GB DDR ECC Ram < 4GB went to make a Ram Disk
Nvidia Quadro FX 4500
2xWD Raptor 74GB HD (Internal)
4xMaxtor MaxLineIII 300GB (External SATA Enclosure)--RocketRaid 2320 Controller--Wires rerouted through opened PCI Slot Cover--Raid 1

Ran test from Ram Disk
 
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