Help! Need help interpreting Xbench

[m-lo]

Hi all. Seriously a noob when it comes to mac's I've been a PC user for nearly 20 years and have just celebrated day 6 with my new macbook.

So today I upgraded the hard drive to a 500gb wd scorpio blue. Ran Xbench on the stock drive and then on the upgraded drive. Based on my limited knowledge it would appear that the performance was way better with my stock drive.

Plz help

thanks!
m-lo (serious Mac-Noob)



Went from 130.27 to 124.22 - seriously sounds bad. Please tel me if this is bad or to be expected

see link or pasted info below


http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc2=347584

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Compare to Other Systems / of type "MacBook" / of type "MacBook"

"m-lo’s MacBook" MacBook
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upgraded to wd500gb scorpion blue

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stock 160GB drive

Longer is better — scores greater than 300 will be truncated, and have "—>" inside the bar

Name Score Detail
Results
124.22
130.27


System Info




Xbench Version


1.3
1.3
System Version


10.5.6 (9G55)
10.5.6 (9G55)
Physical RAM


4096 MB
4096 MB
Model


MacBook5,1
MacBook5,1
Drive Type


WDC WD5000BEVT-00ZAT0
FUJITSU MHZ2160BH FFS G1
CPU Test
129.81
133.56


GCD Loop
226.27
230.93
11.93 Mops/sec
12.17 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic
109.14
111.63
2.59 Gflop/sec
2.65 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT
90.28
94.04
2.98 Gflop/sec
3.10 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library
162.43
165.90
28.28 Mops/sec
28.89 Mops/sec
Thread Test
244.99
251.43


Computation
395.32—>
379.42—>
8.01 Mops/sec, 4 threads
7.69 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention
177.50
188.01
7.64 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
8.09 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test
153.10
171.47


System
160.62
192.89


Allocate
202.13
232.38
742.28 Kalloc/sec
853.39 Kalloc/sec
Fill
150.42
162.97
7313.65 MB/sec
7924.16 MB/sec
Copy
141.19
195.54
2916.25 MB/sec
4038.77 MB/sec
Stream
146.25
154.33


Copy
135.12
145.84
2790.91 MB/sec
3012.34 MB/sec
Scale
142.06
148.08
2935.00 MB/sec
3059.30 MB/sec
Add
148.82
163.11
3170.20 MB/sec
3474.50 MB/sec
Triad
161.52
161.87
3455.24 MB/sec
3462.73 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test
151.22
159.84


Line
140.90
146.36
9.38 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
9.74 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle
181.36
191.33
54.15 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
57.12 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle
146.72
158.30
11.96 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
12.90 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier
147.05
154.03
3.71 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
3.88 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text
146.24
155.91
9.15 Kchars/sec
9.75 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test
132.98
137.78


Spinning Squares
132.98
137.78
168.70 frames/sec
174.78 frames/sec
User Interface Test
221.63
237.25


Elements
221.63
237.25
1.02 Krefresh/sec
1.09 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test
51.57
53.45


Sequential
84.00
79.40


Uncached Write
94.24
93.77
57.86 MB/sec [4K blocks]
57.57 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write
88.99
101.93
50.35 MB/sec [256K blocks]
57.67 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read
53.56
46.49
15.68 MB/sec [4K blocks]
13.60 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read
140.83
119.13
70.78 MB/sec [256K blocks]
59.88 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random
37.21
40.29


Uncached Write
14.69
15.36
1.55 MB/sec [4K blocks]
1.63 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write
104.50
92.39
33.46 MB/sec [256K blocks]
29.58 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read
49.92
70.53
0.35 MB/sec [4K blocks]
0.50 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read
101.84
109.09
18.90 MB/sec [256K blocks]
20.24 MB/sec [256K blocks]