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XBench Results

my 300Mhz G3 Blueberry iBook!

One now and one when I get my new hard drive.
Code: 
Results	30.32	
	System Info		
		Xbench Version		1.0b3
		System Version		10.2
		Physical RAM		320 MB
		Processor		PowerPC,750@0 [300 MHz]
			L1 Cache		32K (instruction), 32K (data)
			Bus Frequency		67 MHz
	CPU Test	35.07	
		GCD Recursion	28.20	1.10 Mops/sec
		Floating Point Basic	29.17	98.31 Mflop/sec
		Floating Point Library	47.86	2.15 Mops/sec
	Thread Test	21.66	
		Computation	18.11	145.93 Kops/sec, 4 threads
		Memory Contention	17.94	56.76 MB/sec, 2 threads
		Lock Contention	28.92	363.07 Klocks/sec, 4 threads
	Memory Test	25.82	
		System	26.06	
			Allocate	55.25	29.06 Kalloc/sec
			Fill	15.31	87.81 MB/sec
			Copy	7.61	45.64 MB/sec
		Stream	25.58	
			Copy	25.55	102.20 MB/sec
			Scale	25.51	102.05 MB/sec
			Add	25.65	102.60 MB/sec
			Triad	25.62	102.48 MB/sec
	Quartz Graphics Test	33.92	
		Line	31.18	793.71 lines/sec [50% alpha]
		Rectangle	40.24	2.83 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
		Circle	38.75	893.19 circles/sec [50% alpha]
		Bezier	35.65	387.34 beziers/sec [50% alpha]
		Text	23.81	400.90 chars/sec
	OpenGL Graphics Test	35.51	
		Spinning Squares	35.51	24.85 frames/sec
	User Interface Test	32.16	
		Elements	32.16	10.29 refresh/sec
	Disk Test	28.12	
		Sequential	29.93	
			Uncached Write	22.95	8.55 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	25.63	8.98 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	46.77	6.91 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	24.37	9.14 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Random	26.31	
			Uncached Write	18.75	0.31 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	25.89	5.38 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	32.16	0.35 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	28.42	5.47 MB/sec [256K blocks]
 
Originally posted by daPhil
I wonder why the hell i my IBM GXP 120 IDE disc gets better scores than my Cheetah 15000rpm U160SCSI disc... The Cheetah is supposed to be the fastest disc in the world according to www.storagereview.com who benchamarks all discs released.
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It has to do with the type of tests being performed. The tests that XBench does are pretty limited. If you were to see access times and random read and write it should destroy any ATA drive. Actually any modern SCSI drive should beat an ATA drive in access time I believe.
 
Just got my new hard drive today, 40GB 5400rpm IBM Travelstar with 8MB cache.
New benchmarks:

Code: 
Results	36.43	
	System Info		
		Xbench Version		1.0b3
		System Version		10.2
		Physical RAM		320 MB
		Processor		PowerPC,750@0 [300 MHz]
			L1 Cache		32K (instruction), 32K (data)
			Bus Frequency		67 MHz
	CPU Test	35.30	
		GCD Recursion	27.37	1.07 Mops/sec
		Floating Point Basic	29.64	99.92 Mflop/sec
		Floating Point Library	48.89	2.20 Mops/sec
	Thread Test	22.36	
		Computation	18.60	149.83 Kops/sec, 4 threads
		Memory Contention	18.86	59.67 MB/sec, 2 threads
		Lock Contention	29.62	371.83 Klocks/sec, 4 threads
	Memory Test	26.20	
		System	26.98	
			Allocate	55.59	29.24 Kalloc/sec
			Fill	16.80	96.31 MB/sec
			Copy	8.56	51.36 MB/sec
		Stream	25.42	
			Copy	25.24	100.97 MB/sec
			Scale	25.32	101.26 MB/sec
			Add	25.59	102.36 MB/sec
			Triad	25.54	102.17 MB/sec
	Quartz Graphics Test	36.13	
		Line	31.50	801.87 lines/sec [50% alpha]
		Rectangle	41.06	2.89 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
		Circle	39.66	914.09 circles/sec [50% alpha]
		Bezier	36.64	398.18 beziers/sec [50% alpha]
		Text	31.80	535.60 chars/sec
	OpenGL Graphics Test	37.24	
		Spinning Squares	37.24	26.06 frames/sec
	User Interface Test	35.46	
		Elements	35.46	11.35 refresh/sec
	Disk Test	62.29	
		Sequential	64.09	
			Uncached Write	58.22	21.67 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	71.90	25.19 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	60.48	8.94 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	65.77	24.66 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Random	60.50	
			Uncached Write	46.90	0.78 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	71.87	14.94 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	55.31	0.60 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	67.90	13.07 MB/sec [256K blocks]
 
No kidding. Wow.
Everything so much smoother on it and it wasn't all that hard to replace it.

For comparison:

Code: 
Old drive: Fujitsu 6GB 4200rpm

	Disk Test	28.12	
		Sequential	29.93	
			Uncached Write	22.95	8.55 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	25.63	8.98 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	46.77	6.91 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	24.37	9.14 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Random	26.31	
			Uncached Write	18.75	0.31 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	25.89	5.38 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	32.16	0.35 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	28.42	5.47 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Code: 
New drive: 5400rpm IBM 40GB

	Disk Test	62.29	
		Sequential	64.09	
			Uncached Write	58.22	21.67 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	71.90	25.19 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	60.48	8.94 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	65.77	24.66 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Random	60.50	
			Uncached Write	46.90	0.78 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	71.87	14.94 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	55.31	0.60 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	67.90	13.07 MB/sec [256K blocks]
 
on my old graphite:

Results 60.15
System Info
Xbench Version 1.0b3
System Version 10.2.2
Physical RAM 256 MB
Processor PowerPC,G4@0 [450 MHz]
 
1GHz Tibook

Results 95.77
System Info
Xbench Version 1.0b3
System Version 10.2.1
Physical RAM 512 MB
Processor PowerPC,G4@0 [1000 MHz]
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
Bus Frequency 134 MHz
CPU Test 117.01
GCD Recursion 111.36 4.35 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 118.18 398.34 Mflop/sec
AltiVec Basic 118.70 6.44 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 119.79 5.38 Mops/sec
Thread Test 76.96
Computation 64.07 516.14 Kops/sec, 4 threads
Memory Contention 99.09 313.42 MB/sec, 2 threads
Lock Contention 67.71 849.92 Klocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 112.00
System 131.35
Allocate 122.27 64.32 Kalloc/sec
Fill 218.54 1253.21 MB/sec
Copy 53.24 319.45 MB/sec
Stream 92.66
Copy 93.28 373.11 MB/sec [altivec]
Scale 92.79 371.16 MB/sec [altivec]
Add 94.53 378.10 MB/sec [altivec]
Triad 90.04 360.16 MB/sec [altivec]
Quartz Graphics Test 101.34
Line 115.77 2.95 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 69.26 4.87 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 92.41 2.13 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 116.01 1.26 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 113.23 1.91 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 105.45
Spinning Squares 105.45 73.79 frames/sec
User Interface Test 94.57
Elements 94.57 30.26 refresh/sec
Disk Test 63.05
Sequential 71.56
Uncached Write 64.84 24.14 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 62.66 21.95 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 98.95 14.62 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 59.77 22.41 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 54.54
Uncached Write 71.60 1.20 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 50.15 10.42 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 40.96 0.44 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 55.45 10.67 MB/sec [256K blocks]
 
quite satisfied with this
iTunes encode >30X
Quake 3 fps ~200fps
P7 launch 6 seconds
:cool:

Results 151.59
System Info
Xbench Version 1.0b3
System Version 10.2.2
Physical RAM 512 MB
Processor PowerPC,G4@0 [1250 MHz]
 
Originally posted by buseman
quite satisfied with this
iTunes encode >30X
Quake 3 fps ~200fps
P7 launch 6 seconds
:cool:

Results 151.59
System Info
Xbench Version 1.0b3
System Version 10.2.2
Physical RAM 512 MB
Processor PowerPC,G4@0 [1250 MHz]
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What video card? Also what speed cd reader do you have. I have a 40x12x48 and it rips at >30x on my Dual/GHz/DDR.
 
Originally posted by MacBandit


What video card? Also what speed cd reader do you have. I have a 40x12x48 and it rips at >30x on my Dual/GHz/DDR.
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Geforce4 Ti 4600. i was actually surprised about the high q3 benchmarks, since i use 1280*1024 and everything set to max. It often peaks at over 300, but stays mostly around 200.

i got the superdrive which is only 24X of course, so the speeds are from aiff's on the disk.
 
Originally posted by buseman


Geforce4 Ti 4600. i was actually surprised about the high q3 benchmarks, since i use 1280*1024 and everything set to max. It often peaks at over 300, but stays mostly around 200.

i got the superdrive which is only 24X of course, so the speeds are from aiff's on the disk.
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That's cool. It kind of gives me an idea of what kind of performance to expect from an ATI 9700 card in my computer. I currently have a G4MX in it. I got the computer with the G4MX because it cut $100 off the price and I was planning on getting an ATI9700 as soon as they become available any way. My frame rates are around 100FPS with Max everything at 1280x1024.
 
here is my new score with my dual ghz mmd r9000 .

Results 141.37
System Info
Xbench Version 1.0b3
System Version 10.2.3
Physical RAM 256 MB
Processor PowerPC,G4@0 [1000 MHz]
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
Bus Frequency 167 MHz
Processor PowerPC,G4@1 [1000 MHz]
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
Bus Frequency 167 MHz
CPU Test 124.69
GCD Recursion 124.77 4.87 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 123.62 416.67 Mflop/sec
AltiVec Basic 128.96 7.00 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 121.40 5.45 Mops/sec
Thread Test 131.74
Computation 118.14 951.74 Kops/sec, 4 threads
Memory Contention 157.08 496.85 MB/sec, 2 threads
Lock Contention 119.99 1.51 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 132.23
System 134.89
Allocate 127.53 67.08 Kalloc/sec
Fill 205.52 1178.52 MB/sec
Copy 71.62 429.72 MB/sec
Stream 129.56
Copy 127.13 508.53 MB/sec [altivec]
Scale 130.65 522.61 MB/sec [altivec]
Add 137.07 548.28 MB/sec [altivec]
Triad 123.39 493.58 MB/sec [altivec]
Quartz Graphics Test 136.52
Line 130.32 3.32 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 144.76 10.18 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 148.95 3.43 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 129.41 1.41 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 129.16 2.18 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 198.64
Spinning Squares 198.64 139.00 frames/sec
User Interface Test 152.31
Elements 152.31 48.74 refresh/sec
Disk Test 113.47
Sequential 119.45
Uncached Write 82.27 30.63 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 116.80 40.91 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 172.56 25.50 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 106.16 39.80 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 107.50
Uncached Write 129.48 2.16 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 115.54 24.01 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 75.42 0.81 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 109.56 21.09 MB/sec [256K blocks]

I installed my copy of 6g24 10.2.3. then i repaired permissions on my computer and it increased my score from 121 to 141. simply amazing. now i have to go check out 6g26.

iJon
 
iMac 500 G3 256 MB ram

Results 50.26
System Info
Xbench Version 1.0b3
System Version 10.2.2
Physical RAM 256 MB
Processor PowerPC,750@0 [500 MHz]
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
Bus Frequency 100 MHz
CPU Test 58.00
GCD Recursion 45.82 1.79 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 47.68 160.71 Mflop/sec
Floating Point Library 80.51 3.62 Mops/sec
Thread Test 38.82
Computation 31.44 253.30 Kops/sec, 4 threads
Memory Contention 35.63 112.68 MB/sec, 2 threads
Lock Contention 49.39 619.97 Klocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 42.35
System 42.97
Allocate 92.76 48.79 Kalloc/sec
Fill 23.78 136.38 MB/sec
Copy 12.37 74.21 MB/sec
Stream 41.73
Copy 41.37 165.49 MB/sec
Scale 40.60 162.39 MB/sec
Add 42.46 169.83 MB/sec
Triad 42.48 169.93 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 49.92
Line 44.70 1.14 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 59.98 4.22 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 57.12 1.32 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 50.68 550.69 beziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 37.15 625.58 chars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 66.54
Spinning Squares 66.54 46.57 frames/sec
User Interface Test 46.66
Elements 46.66 14.93 refresh/sec
Disk Test 49.55
Sequential 50.16
Uncached Write 58.74 21.87 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 54.33 19.03 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 42.81 6.33 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 44.78 16.79 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 48.94
Uncached Write 51.61 0.86 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 46.14 9.59 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 49.90 0.54 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 48.09 9.26 MB/sec [256K blocks]
 
aww man, all you guys have comps that blow mine out of the water. I remember when I had the best comp (933 G4) cuz no one could afford the fabled dual 1 GHz at the time.... Now everyone's xbench is jsut raping my measly 104. Oh well, atleast Im beating the 1 Ghz powerbook, but thats only because of HD tests... :rolleyes:
 
Originally posted by G5orbust
aww man, all you guys have comps that blow mine out of the water. I remember when I had the best comp (933 G4) cuz no one could afford the fabled dual 1 GHz at the time.... Now everyone's xbench is jsut raping my measly 104. Oh well, atleast Im beating the 1 Ghz powerbook, but thats only because of HD tests... :rolleyes:
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my comp is getting half the results of yours :p, but then again, i love the portability, but i DO want louder speakers (theyre way too quiet for listening to music if theres a few people in the room), DVDs are even worse, but hopefully i'll get a set of 4.1 speakers and a splitter for xmas
 
Whoa--the Pismo scores over 60?!

Did I read these results right? The guy with the upgraded Pismo (G4/500) scores comparably with a TiBook 800? Why is that, given the processor speed disparity? Maybe one of you hardware geniuses can explain it to me.

I have been intending to drop the $300 to send my Pismo G3/400 to Newertech or Powerlogix, and this test would seem to indicate that I would be an IDIOT not to.
 
G3 B & W 350 oc'd to 400 384 mb RAM and Maxtor 7200 30gb HD. Apache was running.
I ran this test without rebooting, it has been running apache, I am using it as a webserver.


Results 47.70
System Info
Xbench Version 1.0b3
System Version 10.2.2
Physical RAM 384 MB
Processor PowerPC,750@0 [399 MHz]
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
Bus Frequency 100 MHz
CPU Test 47.49
GCD Recursion 38.60 1.51 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 39.36 132.64 Mflop/sec
Floating Point Library 64.51 2.90 Mops/sec
Thread Test 29.58
Computation 25.36 204.27 Kops/sec, 4 threads
Memory Contention 26.93 85.19 MB/sec, 2 threads
Lock Contention 36.47 457.73 Klocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 37.93
System 36.93
Allocate 61.99 32.61 Kalloc/sec
Fill 36.39 208.68 MB/sec
Copy 12.40 74.41 MB/sec
Stream 38.94
Copy 38.25 153.01 MB/sec
Scale 38.24 152.97 MB/sec
Add 39.75 158.99 MB/sec
Triad 39.53 158.12 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 47.99
Line 41.39 1.05 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 52.64 3.70 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 50.62 1.17 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 47.77 519.07 beziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 47.54 800.53 chars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 53.53
Spinning Squares 53.53 37.46 frames/sec
User Interface Test 49.48
Elements 49.48 15.83 refresh/sec
Disk Test 67.88
Sequential 68.22
Uncached Write 68.20 25.39 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 69.50 24.34 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 70.02 10.35 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 65.17 24.44 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 67.54
Uncached Write 73.26 1.22 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 70.94 14.74 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 57.20 0.62 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 68.78 13.24 MB/sec [256K blocks]
 
Re: Whoa--the Pismo scores over 60?!

Originally posted by D*I*S_Frontman
Did I read these results right? The guy with the upgraded Pismo (G4/500) scores comparably with a TiBook 800? Why is that, given the processor speed disparity? Maybe one of you hardware geniuses can explain it to me.

I have been intending to drop the $300 to send my Pismo G3/400 to Newertech or Powerlogix, and this test would seem to indicate that I would be an IDIOT not to.
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There is more then one thing going on. First off the test on the Pismo is with XBench 1.0B2 and the TiBook is with 1.0B3. These two versions can not be compared with any validity.

If you are going to compare them any way. Here's what I see. The TiBook is faster overall by nearly 17.5 points. This is huge amount. Much greater then you would think. Also based on some very irregular results I would say that not only are the systems being tested on two different versions of XBench but also probably on two different versions of OSX. Also I the TiBook could have been tested on a system with a full hard drive and hadn't had permissions or any other system maintenance done in a while.

Just a reminder to everyone. Please test on a fresh restart. Also to keep everything equal fix permissions immediatly prior to testing. On a final note if you don't leave your machine on over night at least once a week you should download MacJanitor and run it once and a while to allow the system to run it's cleanup routines.
 
Originally posted by Tarlach
G3 B & W 350 oc'd to 400 384 mb RAM and Maxtor 7200 30gb HD. Apache was running.
I ran this test without rebooting, it has been running apache, I am using it as a webserver.

I just installed OS X 10.2.3 and got around a 13% improvement on xbench scores. It seems as the main improvement is in the disk scores.
Interesting.
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This is the test I did after installing 10.2.3 and repairing permissions. As you can see nearly everything tests slower with 10.2.3. The system overall doesn't feel any slower so it's either not significant or XBench is unable to test 10.2.3 comparably or correctly as compared to 10.2.2.
 

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MacBandit, interesting. I noticed in a few things the scores were marginally lower but my overall score was higher.
My disk test scores were significantly higher.
When I get more time I'll test some more.
I'll halt apache, repair permissions and see what happens. I would be very much surprised if after doing that I got slower scores though.
What I can't do is go back and retest 10.2.2, but I do have the xbench scores from it saved all I can do is compare at this point.
Anyone else showing a slowdown?
 
PB 667 DVI

Results 77.12
System Info
Xbench Version 1.0b3
System Version 10.2
Physical RAM 768 MB
Processor PowerPC,G4@0 [667 MHz]
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
Bus Frequency 134 MHz
CPU Test 78.67
GCD Recursion 73.63 2.88 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 78.04 263.00 Mflop/sec
AltiVec Basic 83.45 4.53 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 79.56 3.57 Mops/sec
Thread Test 71.93
Computation 43.29 348.75 Kops/sec, 4 threads
Memory Contention 125.31 396.36 MB/sec, 2 threads
Lock Contention 47.19 592.32 Klocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 100.83
System 101.20
Allocate 83.83 44.10 Kalloc/sec
Fill 167.42 960.05 MB/sec
Copy 52.35 314.07 MB/sec
Stream 100.47
Copy 99.30 397.19 MB/sec [altivec]
Scale 101.26 405.05 MB/sec [altivec]
Add 103.79 415.15 MB/sec [altivec]
Triad 97.52 390.06 MB/sec [altivec]
Quartz Graphics Test 78.05
Line 82.61 2.10 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 64.29 4.52 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 84.65 1.95 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 83.57 908.06 beziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 75.12 1.27 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 82.18
Spinning Squares 82.18 57.51 frames/sec
User Interface Test 74.29
Elements 74.29 23.77 refresh/sec
Disk Test 53.91
Sequential 64.01
Uncached Write 53.27 19.83 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 55.18 19.33 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 96.80 14.31 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 50.80 19.05 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 43.82
Uncached Write 30.87 0.52 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 47.56 9.88 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 41.85 0.45 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 54.98 10.58 MB/sec [256K blocks]
 
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