Santa Rosa 2.4, 4GB Ram Factorial Bench EXTREMELY SLOW!!! HELP please.

footloose301footloose301
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
After doing some benchs I noticed that my 6 month old MacBook Pro is half the speed of what it SHOULD be.



(null) ("MacBookPro3,1") with 2 cores, running at 2.40 gHz.

Frontside bus: 800.00 mHz

Installed memory: 4.00 GB



200,000,000 factorials will be calculated by creating 2 threads.



Thread # 1 created.

Thread # 2 created.

Waiting for threads to finish...

Thread # 1: 100,000,000 factorials calculated in 12.588000 seconds at 7,944,074 factorials per second.

Thread # 2: 100,000,000 factorials calculated in 12.922097 seconds at 7,738,682 factorials per second.

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[Process completed]





I am running Leopard. Both cores are working. They idle at 90-98% most the time. In activity monitor it shows both cores are screaming bright green when I bench it.



Would really appreciate any help to get this thing to move quicker. Anybody that can solve this issue gets $20 paypal

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 8
    footloose301footloose301 Posts: 421member
    Also, what if I did a fresh install of Leopard? Anybody think it could be the cure?
  • Reply 2 of 8
    audiopollutionaudiopollution Posts: 3,226member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Footloose301 View Post


    Also, what if I did a fresh install of Leopard? Anybody think it could be the cure?



    What items do you have running at startup?
  • Reply 3 of 8
    footloose301footloose301 Posts: 421member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by audiopollution View Post


    What items do you have running at startup?



  • Reply 4 of 8
    audiopollutionaudiopollution Posts: 3,226member
    It really shouldn't make a difference whether it's fresh install, or not.



    I'm puzzled.
  • Reply 5 of 8
    footloose301footloose301 Posts: 421member
    I just talked to a couple guys last night in another thread and they had no idea either. Everyone seems to be stumped.



    Both cores are working. Working to the max, yet they're slow.



    Perhaps it might be time to take it to Apple? I wonder if they would even do anything about it. They've already replaced the logic board within the first week that I got this.
  • Reply 6 of 8
    akacakac Posts: 512member
    Was this on battery or AC power?
  • Reply 7 of 8
    footloose301footloose301 Posts: 421member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Akac View Post


    Was this on battery or AC power?



    AC power
  • Reply 8 of 8
    footloose301footloose301 Posts: 421member
    Just came home and opened up my MBP and ran a test immediately and this is what I got; So atleast its capable of being where it should. Not sure why it doesn't run like this all the time.



    (null) ("MacBookPro3,1") with 2 cores, running at 2.40 gHz.

    Frontside bus: 800.00 mHz

    Installed memory: 4.00 GB



    200,000,000 factorials will be calculated by creating 2 threads.



    Thread # 1 created.

    Thread # 2 created.

    Waiting for threads to finish...

    Thread # 2: 100,000,000 factorials calculated in 8.334138 seconds at 11,998,841 factorials per second.

    Thread # 1: 100,000,000 factorials calculated in 8.375203 seconds at 11,940,009 factorials per second.

    logout



    [Process completed]
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