iMac i7 + OWC 6G SSD + 16GB RAM : xbench 506.03

[UNO]

Bought top of the line iMac (HDD only). Put 16gb RAM and 240Gb SSD instead of stock HDD (use iStatMenus to handle fans). xBench is more than double of what my 2008 8core MacPro with 32Gb Ram and 2x480 OWC SSDs used to show. Ah, and I kept about $1000 of price difference. Gotta love eBay!
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Results 506.03
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.6.6 (10J4026)
Physical RAM 16384 MB
Model iMac12,2
Drive Type OWC Mercury EXTREME Pro 6G SSD
CPU Test 291.25
GCD Loop 378.33 19.94 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 254.11 6.04 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 190.13 6.27 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 527.45 91.85 Mops/sec
Thread Test 965.16
Computation 895.10 18.13 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 1047.10 45.05 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 635.21
System 702.12
Allocate 996.14 3.66 Malloc/sec
Fill 492.59 23950.80 MB/sec
Copy 807.24 16673.26 MB/sec
Stream 579.95
Copy 560.77 11582.48 MB/sec
Scale 555.93 11485.34 MB/sec
Add 612.15 13040.13 MB/sec
Triad 594.70 12722.06 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 398.38
Line 345.72 23.02 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 451.28 134.73 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 378.86 30.88 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 388.46 9.80 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 448.73 28.07 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 458.49
Spinning Squares 458.49 581.62 frames/sec
User Interface Test 709.81
Elements 709.81 3.26 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test 591.93
Sequential 353.63
Uncached Write 700.70 430.22 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 509.89 288.50 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 157.65 46.14 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 632.97 318.13 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 1815.15
Uncached Write 2814.78 297.98 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 1008.26 322.78 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 3844.69 27.24 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 1676.44 311.08 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

[rj86]

So you made a grand selling your Mac Pro and replacing with this?

Nice

 

[UNO]

So you made a grand selling your Mac Pro and replacing with this?

Nice

...and I kept my SSDs from the MacPro. It went for $4300 with a couple of standard HDDs, Apple Cinema, 32Gb RAM and the bidding was quite active. iMac with extra ram and SSD cost is about $3300 and now I have 2 big SSDs waiting for Thunderbolt enclosure to keep my user folder. Price difference was enough to add an extra 27inch display. SO, now I have faster machine with 2x27 monitors instead of one paling 30-incher.

To be honest, I still think it was pure luck