New benchmarks
For the dual 867 MHz, go see those nice benchmarks. Very interesting.
<a href="http://macspeedzone.com/html/hardware/machine/comparison/all/master_list_9.html" target="_blank">http://macspeedzone.com/html/hardware/machine/comparison/all/master_list_9.html</a>
Tell me what you think of all these.
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Tell me what you think of all these.
Comments
I'd buy the QS, it's cheeper now.
So if you are doing any video captures to disk, the system bus has plenty of bandwith left over for other tasks to do their thing thanks to DMA (Direct Memory Access) in the I/O channels.
For some people this can really be a reason to upgrade. If you already have a fast modern G4 then there is no compelling reason to upgrade for the modest CPU speed gains you will gain.
Playing Quake III is hardly "worth" getting a new dual-drive G4 IMHO. If you do DVD or Video work all day and night then yeah get one. Every little bit helps.
I have a G4/450 and even the lowest end model would be light years ahead of what I have now DDR FSB or not.
Y'know, I keep hearing that, but until I see benchmarks supporting that on these new Macs, I ain't gonna believe it.
<a href="http://macspeedzone.com/html/hardware/machine/comparison/all/master_list_9.html" target="_blank">http://macspeedzone.com/html/hardware/machine/comparison/all/master_list_9.html</a>
The ddr DP867 replaced the sdr SP800
The ddr DP1Ghz replaced the sdr SP933
The ddr DP1.25Ghz replaced the sdr DP1Ghz
There's no doubt that each new machine SMOKES it's former stablemate, DRR SDR or whatever, EACH MACHINE IS MUCH FASTER THAN THE MACHINE IT REPLACES!!!
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edit: I'm not trying to be snide, but if it comes across that way, then you'll understand how you came across to others in your post.
food for thought!
[quote]Originally posted by Xidius:
<strong>I'm sorry I failed to "saw" a Dual 867 NEW put up against a Dual 867 OLD.
Be fair. When you find a NEW Dual 1Ghz put up against an OLD Dual 1Ghz, with reasonably equal specifications, I will listen.
- Xidius
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Mirror face Dual 1 GHz/167 w/GeForce 4 Ti/768 MB of RAM.
CocoaBench, a free benchmarking program. My results and then a comparison of the results they've gotten on previous Macs.
And SpeedRun, another free benchmarking program. Mine is the Mac highlighted in blue near the bottom.
As you can see, according to these programs, my Mac is faster than all previous macs, including the previous dual 1 GHz. Obviously this isn't very scientific but the fact that two different programs both agree that the new one is faster than the old one should suggest that it might have some basis in fact.
Edit: You'll notice the disk I/O is vastly superior to any previous model Mac, including the QS Dual 1 Ghz.
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eh.
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When is people gonna learn? NEVER!