It was originally just a very basic internet machine for my mother. It needed to browse 3-4 horse racing sites, do email, and nothing else. Now it's coming up to a bit heavier use and the lack of speed is really apparent. I didn't think that was a problem, but after having a play with my 6300 at home, I find the 6300/100 is far quicker than the 6400/200, and can't see a reason why. The difference would be double - the 6300/100 with 48mb feels twice the speed of the 6300/200 with 90mb.
When booting it'll take a good 3 minutes to get through to the finder, then after that application loading has frustrating pauses. Rendering of complex webpages is really frustrating too, and certainly slower in comparison to the 6300. I've completely removed all drives and pci cards except the boot volume and reformatted/reinstalled a basic OS with the same speed problem appearing. There's a cache simm in the 6400 (I think it's 256kb) and 1.5GB drive. The drive doesn't seem to thrash about, and testing with speedometer shows the drive, at least, is going as fast as the 6300s.
I'm a bit lost as to why there's such a speed difference. While I don't expect lightning speeds from the 6400 it should certainly outperform the 6300, being twice the MHz speed and a better motherboard architecture!.
Any clues? Is there something odd about 6400s that dies and creates speed problems like this? My only other option now is to replace the 1.5GB drive with a 10GB one that was originally in my indigo iMac 400, after that it's just about everything hardwarewise replaced except for the motherboard and RAM. (I have no spare DIMMS either)
thanks, dana -- http://www.danamania.com/
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