help, need serious opinions on 733 performance issue
I own a 733. Very happy with my machine, until a friend o' mine came home with his 450 G4, retail PC GeForce 2 MX 400, flashed.
He beat me in every game test we did, RTCW, Quake 3, etc.
Theoretically I should of kicked his ass in every test since i'm faster G4, faster ram and bus, 4X AGP and even i had 128 more megs of ram.
So that droped me to
a) his geforce is very superior to my OEM, SDRAM, GeForce2 MX
b) I have something inside my mac that's not doing it's job properly
I tried the hardware test cd that came with the powermac and showed no problems.
I'm thinking of buying techtool or one of those to do the tests, but i'm OS X only user (no classic in my hd), so i'm kindda reluctant to buy OS 9 software ...
are there any good hardware diagnosis tools for X ?
is there a way in X to do Mips/Flops tests ?
any opinions welcome
thanx
Sarc
He beat me in every game test we did, RTCW, Quake 3, etc.
Theoretically I should of kicked his ass in every test since i'm faster G4, faster ram and bus, 4X AGP and even i had 128 more megs of ram.
So that droped me to
a) his geforce is very superior to my OEM, SDRAM, GeForce2 MX
b) I have something inside my mac that's not doing it's job properly
I tried the hardware test cd that came with the powermac and showed no problems.
I'm thinking of buying techtool or one of those to do the tests, but i'm OS X only user (no classic in my hd), so i'm kindda reluctant to buy OS 9 software ...
are there any good hardware diagnosis tools for X ?
is there a way in X to do Mips/Flops tests ?
any opinions welcome
thanx
Sarc
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are there any good hardware diagnosis tools for X ?
is there a way in X to do Mips/Flops tests ?
any opinions welcome
thanx
Sarc[/QB]<hr></blockquote>
Is this the Graphite <a href="http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g4/stats/powermac_g4_733.html"; target="_blank">http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g4/stats/powermac_g4_733.html</a>;
or Quicksilver 733
<a href="http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g4/stats/powermac_g4_733_qs.html"; target="_blank">http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g4/stats/powermac_g4_733_qs.html</a>;
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Here's one good test:
Take a look at acclerate your mac.
<a href="http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/"; target="_blank">http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/</a>;
They do a good job of benchmarking.
I was looking at the OWC upgrade card review last night and it had a bunch of links to the benchmarking tools that they use.
<a href="http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/G4CARDS/OWC_mercury/index2.html"; target="_blank">http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/G4CARDS/OWC_mercury/index2.html</a>;
Here's one for example:
<a href="http://daugerresearch.com/fractaldemos/altivecfractalcarbon.html"; target="_blank">http://daugerresearch.com/fractaldemos/altivecfractalcarbon.html</a>;
It's an Altivec-optimized fractal renderer. My cube/450 scores about 1.4 gigaflops.
And you flash the Retail GF2MX by putting it in a Windows machine, erase the rom, and load the mac rom.
more info at <a href="http://www.xlr8yourmac.com"; target="_blank">www.xlr8yourmac.com</a>
I got 2.5 Gigaflops wich I think is correct, so next comes lowering the resolutions to all the games to test CPU rather than graphics card.
Thx again
Sarc