<<Especially on these machines. Nice to see someone will do the work and send you the results. Could someone lend Steve a scsi card to complete the test. ;)>>
Yeah, nothing fancy. An Ultra 320 card would do just fine. ;-) When I go back down to my Mom's (I just gave her my old 7600/200 with Initio UW SCSI card, and took back the 6100/66/DOS that I had previously given her - Hmmmm, her son giveth and her son taketh away) I may just take my 8600 with me and do some benchmarks on the SCSI card in my 8600, etc. I actually have the benchmarks around here on the FW drive when I benchmarked the 7600 and the SCSI card, I just gotta find em. <<Which is why a decent test is needed, what performs best with our chosen limitations? For that matter how much is gained by adding a 10k drive, replacing the 5.4 rpm drive in a beige powermac? 7.6k being a general and easy upgrade for most of us.>> Well the two SCSI drives in my results are a 5400rpm Quantum SCSI 3 and the new IBM 10,000rpm Ultra Wide 2 LVD/SE drive, and the transfer speeds weren't that far apart, so I suppose the SCSI bus is the bottleneck. <<I wont woffle on :) Thanks for the results Steve. I hope other folk will bench mark their systems so we all can see what's best for us considering our Mac's limitations, in given fields and for differing tasks. >> You're welcome. One note. I'm a Dad with 4 grown kids. My 8600/XLR8/G4/450 scores faster (Nortons) than either of my wifes iMac's, one girls iBook, and my other girls snow iBook. In fact I had the fastest machine till my boy got his iMac last year, (just barely beats me) and I get smoked by his new Dual 867. Part of it is the G4, but my hard drives (internal SCSI) are much faster than any of their computers (ATA). In the video department, I get smoked by them all, I do believe. I just wish there was a way to hack in an AGP port. STeve -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
