Are iMac G5's really this slow?

[Symtex]

My G5 xbench result

I think it's running pretty good.

 

[bellis1]

Correct

mrgreen4242 was correct and that it was set on automatic. With that little switch it jumped up to 167.93 at last check. And the computer feels zippier.

 

[ravenvii]

Jesus H. Christ. I just turned my energy saver setting from automatic to highest performance. And my iBook feels FAST now! DAMN!

That one tiny switch gave it new life...

 

[ewann]

Interesting... my L2 cache is much faster

I too have been struggling with my (3 day old) iMac G5 20" and why it seems so "slow". Thanks to this thread, I adjusted my power properties to high performance. That definitely helped.

The place I see the slow performance is in scrolling. iTunes, with 2905 songs, was very slow to scroll versus my PC (set up next to the mac). The power properties helped a lot with that. However, Word is still very choppy when scrolling through documents on the Mac, while it's super-smooth on my 2.4 GHz PC w/ 1 GB of RAM.

My G5 does only have 512 MB. I can see the CPU maxing out on the activity monitor when I scroll through documents (and when I scroll through iTunes).

Any ideas about that?

Very interesting: when I ran xbench, it reported a 1.8 GHz L2 cache versus the 1.15 GHz cache others are reporting. Is this a new thing?

Jeff

 

[BLDun]

Allow me to show my ignorance and lack of experience. I keep reading about FileValt and did a search on my G5 dual prossessor and get zero results. What is it and is it already on my computer and if so how do I find it??

 

[jackieonasses]

Allow me to show my ignorance and lack of experience. I keep reading about FileValt and did a search on my G5 dual prossessor and get zero results. What is it and is it already on my computer and if so how do I find it??

It is in your preferences pane. Go to "filevault" from there....

HOnestly, (to the guy with the G5) Reinstall everything. You could have gotten a corrupt OS. If that doesn't work phone apple.

kyle