I've looked over the guides and didn't see anything covering this. Also I checked the threads and didn't find this topic so if this is a well trodded noob question - I apologize.
I just upgraded my MacBook (2.2ghz Santa Rosa) from 1GB to 4GB using Kingstons 4GB upgrade kit (guarenteed 100% compatible, info shows it as 4GB of 667mhz DDR, which as is my understanding as fast as the FSB will go).
Running xbench before and after I saw an almost negligable increase. Even after multiple runs the gain isn't what I'd consider statistically significant - it's low enough to be noise.
Here's my benchmarks:
Before>>>>
Results 68.41
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.2 (9C31)
Physical RAM 1024 MB
Model MacBook3,1
Drive Type ST9120822AS
CPU Test 121.73
GCD Loop 259.71 13.69 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 123.68 2.94 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 73.29 2.42 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 137.37 23.92 Mops/sec
Thread Test 202.08
Computation 193.07 3.91 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 211.98 9.12 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 152.59
System 164.56
Allocate 262.95 965.63 Kalloc/sec
Fill 134.05 6517.76 MB/sec
Copy 143.52 2964.39 MB/sec
Stream 142.24
Copy 134.87 2785.76 MB/sec
Scale 134.09 2770.29 MB/sec
Add 150.52 3206.40 MB/sec
Triad 151.38 3238.43 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 166.11
Line 160.16 10.66 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 206.19 61.56 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 167.32 13.64 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 166.34 4.20 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 142.46 8.91 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 23.24
Spinning Squares 23.24 29.48 frames/sec
User Interface Test 210.42
Elements 210.42 965.70 refresh/sec
Disk Test 34.73
Sequential 62.72
Uncached Write 67.05 41.17 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 67.08 37.96 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 49.89 14.60 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 71.87 36.12 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 24.01
Uncached Write 7.96 0.84 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 66.46 21.28 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 66.03 0.47 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 92.58 17.18 MB/sec [256K blocks]
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After>>>>
Results 68.65
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.2 (9C31)
Physical RAM 4096 MB
Model MacBook3,1
Drive Type ST9120822AS
CPU Test 136.44
GCD Loop 243.59 12.84 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 124.79 2.96 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 100.69 3.32 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 137.61 23.96 Mops/sec
Thread Test 217.27
Computation 199.46 4.04 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 238.56 10.26 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 152.94
System 152.75
Allocate 188.83 693.46 Kalloc/sec
Fill 134.69 6548.76 MB/sec
Copy 144.52 2984.93 MB/sec
Stream 153.13
Copy 142.91 2951.79 MB/sec
Scale 142.17 2937.12 MB/sec
Add 165.49 3525.30 MB/sec
Triad 165.35 3537.20 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 177.52
Line 164.47 10.95 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 208.80 62.34 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 169.17 13.79 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 168.13 4.24 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 183.92 11.51 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 23.33
Spinning Squares 23.33 29.60 frames/sec
User Interface Test 290.92
Elements 290.92 1.34 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test 31.69
Sequential 57.35
Uncached Write 56.81 34.88 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 55.85 31.60 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 53.84 15.76 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 63.82 32.07 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 21.89
Uncached Write 7.25 0.77 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 59.47 19.04 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 62.31 0.44 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 84.10 15.61 MB/sec [256K blocks]
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Can anyone shed some light on this for me? Is this $100 misspent? Is Xbench not a good benchmark tool for this? Actually, if I had got it in store - would this have been $800 misspent as well?
I just upgraded my MacBook (2.2ghz Santa Rosa) from 1GB to 4GB using Kingstons 4GB upgrade kit (guarenteed 100% compatible, info shows it as 4GB of 667mhz DDR, which as is my understanding as fast as the FSB will go).
Running xbench before and after I saw an almost negligable increase. Even after multiple runs the gain isn't what I'd consider statistically significant - it's low enough to be noise.
Here's my benchmarks:
Before>>>>
Results 68.41
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.2 (9C31)
Physical RAM 1024 MB
Model MacBook3,1
Drive Type ST9120822AS
CPU Test 121.73
GCD Loop 259.71 13.69 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 123.68 2.94 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 73.29 2.42 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 137.37 23.92 Mops/sec
Thread Test 202.08
Computation 193.07 3.91 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 211.98 9.12 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 152.59
System 164.56
Allocate 262.95 965.63 Kalloc/sec
Fill 134.05 6517.76 MB/sec
Copy 143.52 2964.39 MB/sec
Stream 142.24
Copy 134.87 2785.76 MB/sec
Scale 134.09 2770.29 MB/sec
Add 150.52 3206.40 MB/sec
Triad 151.38 3238.43 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 166.11
Line 160.16 10.66 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 206.19 61.56 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 167.32 13.64 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 166.34 4.20 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 142.46 8.91 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 23.24
Spinning Squares 23.24 29.48 frames/sec
User Interface Test 210.42
Elements 210.42 965.70 refresh/sec
Disk Test 34.73
Sequential 62.72
Uncached Write 67.05 41.17 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 67.08 37.96 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 49.89 14.60 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 71.87 36.12 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 24.01
Uncached Write 7.96 0.84 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 66.46 21.28 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 66.03 0.47 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 92.58 17.18 MB/sec [256K blocks]
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After>>>>
Results 68.65
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.2 (9C31)
Physical RAM 4096 MB
Model MacBook3,1
Drive Type ST9120822AS
CPU Test 136.44
GCD Loop 243.59 12.84 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 124.79 2.96 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 100.69 3.32 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 137.61 23.96 Mops/sec
Thread Test 217.27
Computation 199.46 4.04 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 238.56 10.26 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 152.94
System 152.75
Allocate 188.83 693.46 Kalloc/sec
Fill 134.69 6548.76 MB/sec
Copy 144.52 2984.93 MB/sec
Stream 153.13
Copy 142.91 2951.79 MB/sec
Scale 142.17 2937.12 MB/sec
Add 165.49 3525.30 MB/sec
Triad 165.35 3537.20 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 177.52
Line 164.47 10.95 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 208.80 62.34 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 169.17 13.79 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 168.13 4.24 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 183.92 11.51 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 23.33
Spinning Squares 23.33 29.60 frames/sec
User Interface Test 290.92
Elements 290.92 1.34 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test 31.69
Sequential 57.35
Uncached Write 56.81 34.88 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 55.85 31.60 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 53.84 15.76 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 63.82 32.07 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 21.89
Uncached Write 7.25 0.77 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 59.47 19.04 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 62.31 0.44 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 84.10 15.61 MB/sec [256K blocks]
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Can anyone shed some light on this for me? Is this $100 misspent? Is Xbench not a good benchmark tool for this? Actually, if I had got it in store - would this have been $800 misspent as well?
