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My machine....
My 27" iMac Corei7:
9882 at this writing (17Jul10).
My understanding is scores can be increased by doing little things: adding memory, adding a faster drive with a larger cache as your main boot drive, insuring there are no cpu cycle hogging applications running in the background, etc.
I've heard that if your machine has mixed memory like I do (two 2-gig chips and two 4-gig chips) you could put the larger chips in the first slots rather than the second like I do so the "first bank" of two is of a larger type.
Over time I was able to get my old G5 2.5 dual to have the same scores as a G5 2.7 just by playing around (2312 as of this writing). Part of the increase was ram (8 gigs now) and another part was adding a steroidal video card - why did it help when a video card shouldn't have any effect? That machine is stuck at 10.58 Leopard and I do believe the OS uses the video card to assist the operation of the machine - the better the card the better the increase.
Anyone else find any hints or tricks to speed machines up? When I first got a hold of a corei7 iMac the score was 8570-ish.
Here's my progression of scores:
My 27" iMac Corei7:
9882 at this writing (17Jul10).
My understanding is scores can be increased by doing little things: adding memory, adding a faster drive with a larger cache as your main boot drive, insuring there are no cpu cycle hogging applications running in the background, etc.
I've heard that if your machine has mixed memory like I do (two 2-gig chips and two 4-gig chips) you could put the larger chips in the first slots rather than the second like I do so the "first bank" of two is of a larger type.
Over time I was able to get my old G5 2.5 dual to have the same scores as a G5 2.7 just by playing around (2312 as of this writing). Part of the increase was ram (8 gigs now) and another part was adding a steroidal video card - why did it help when a video card shouldn't have any effect? That machine is stuck at 10.58 Leopard and I do believe the OS uses the video card to assist the operation of the machine - the better the card the better the increase.
Anyone else find any hints or tricks to speed machines up? When I first got a hold of a corei7 iMac the score was 8570-ish.
Here's my progression of scores:
Geekbench Score: 3364
System: MB Pro 4,1 (LatePenryn)
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz
Memory: 4 GB
Hard Drive: 500 GB 7200 RPM
System: MB Pro 4,1 (LatePenryn)
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz
Memory: 4 GB
Hard Drive: 500 GB 7200 RPM
lol my 15" i7 (yeah, i'm using the 32-bit) geekbench gave me 4897...I should've got the i5 and had a nice steak dinner for the price of i7. i really want to try the 64-bit to see how much different i5 is from i7. this sucks
edit: hmm tried again on mac osx. got 5761, i guess that sounds a little better.
edit: hmm tried again on mac osx. got 5761, i guess that sounds a little better.
Geekbench Score 4979
Platform: Mac OS X x86 (32-bit)
Model: 2010 15" MacBook Pro
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 540 @ 2.53GHz
Memory: 8.00 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Hard Drive: Stock 500GB Toshiba @ 5400rpm
OS: Mac OS X 10.6.4
Not really sure if this is good or what...
Platform: Mac OS X x86 (32-bit)
Model: 2010 15" MacBook Pro
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 540 @ 2.53GHz
Memory: 8.00 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Hard Drive: Stock 500GB Toshiba @ 5400rpm
OS: Mac OS X 10.6.4
Not really sure if this is good or what...
Heres another 32 bit i7 result annoying thing is it doesn't test drive performance so my SSD doesn't shine
annoying too that it doesn't test 64bit without paying
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8-Core Mac Pro [Early 2008] with 256GB SSD, 8GB RAM
Here's my Mac Pro from Early 2008:
8-core (2.8GHz)
8GB RAM 800MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
Mac OS X 10.6.4
OS is running in 64-bit but Geekbench is in 32-bit
256GB Crucial SSD [CRUCIAL_CT256M225]
512MB ATI Radeon HD 3870
Screenshot below. May try a 64-bit test in the future.
Here's my Mac Pro from Early 2008:
8-core (2.8GHz)
8GB RAM 800MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
Mac OS X 10.6.4
OS is running in 64-bit but Geekbench is in 32-bit
256GB Crucial SSD [CRUCIAL_CT256M225]
512MB ATI Radeon HD 3870
Screenshot below. May try a 64-bit test in the future.
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2010 MBP i7 15 HiRes AG, 8GB, 240GB OWC SSD: 6365. This is mind blowing performance from a laptop
I got 6123 with the same setup except apple 128gb ssd and 4gb of ram. It really is a crazy fast computer!
I got 3157 with the MBP in my sig. I can't wait until I'm done with college and get a job just so I can get a pimpin' laptop.