On Apr 30, 2009, at 2:12 AM, insightinmind wrote:
> > > On Apr 30, 2009, at 1:58 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: > >> >> On Apr 30, 2009, at 12:16 AM, insightinmind wrote: >>> >>> Xbench 1.3 says I'm at 19 without it, and 18 with it. >> >> Digging through the Xbench archives there are quite a few overclocked >> 450 MHz Yikes. The problem I see is that the stock Yikes with Rage >> 128 >> and standard ATA33 HDs are scoring the same as your upgraded Yikes. >> This seems really wrong to me. Have you tried booting from the >> internal ATA bus or Firewire to see if unloading the HDs from the PCI >> bus changes the Xbench score? > > My next experiment ... thanks for your responses. Will get back to > you ... tomorrow or so ... Funny ... moving the same hard drive around, the ATA33 onboard bus gives the same, but slightly more, choppy behavior with and without QE as the Sonnet ATA100 controller. I'm getting around 17.8 versus 18.05 when I switch the drive to the ATA33 channel from the ATA100 controller card (both having QE on). The ATI Radeon 7000 gives around 54 frames/sec versus 39 frames/sec for "Spinning Squares" ... but one of the Altivec processing parameters jumps ahead for the system with the 9200, so the resulting Xbench score is around the same for the 9200 as with the 7000. I see the other tests with the ATI Rage 128 giving similar overall scores. (2D? see below) Explanations? I have 1GB RAM and they had either half or 1/3 as much. I've read somewhere on barefeats.com that 2D is pretty much equal for the Radeon 7000 and 9200 ... its with 3D that you'll see a change in scores: http://www.barefeats.com/rad9200.html Quoting from them: One caution: upgrading will help with 3D animation and gaming, not with 2D graphics including Quartz 2D and Quartz Extreme. When we ran tests like Let1KWindowsBloom and Quartz Window Bench (which draws various shapes and sizes of transparent, shadowed windows as fast as possible), the Rage 128 scored virtually identical times to the other cards. I believe XBench tests mostly in 2D? I put my results out there on Xbench under "Bill Connelly’s Computer" PowerMac G4 (Yikes!) oc'd 450" for various combinations, in case someone wants to look. Not doing much 3D, I wonder why I did this upgrade to the 9200, except to have a newer card for my Yikes! and to use the 7000 in my 8500, which currently sports the ATI Rage 128. Maybe GeekBench will show differences ... onward ... Bill Connelly artsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio myspace: http://www.myspace.com/moonstoneartstudio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
