Why is this 800MHz G4 so slow?

Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
We have a 512MB 800MHz Quicksilver in the studio that is VERY slow.



The screen redraw is shocking. My jaw hit the floor when I saw it trying to redraw the screen in iTunes on 10.1.5. And it's not just iTunes, it's every application.



We also have a 320MB 350MHz Yikes! which absolutely slaughters the 800MHz Quicksilver when running 10.1.5.



Is this normal? Is the ATi Radeon 7500 really this crap?

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 16
    logan calelogan cale Posts: 1,281member
    How much RAM do you have?
  • Reply 2 of 16
    [quote]Originally posted by MacAgent:

    <strong>How much RAM do you have?</strong><hr></blockquote>Hello, McFly?



    "We have a 512MB 800MHz Quicksilver in the studio that is VERY slow"



    "We also have a 320MB 350MHz Yikes!"
  • Reply 3 of 16
    groveratgroverat Posts: 10,872member
    Rebuild the desktop.
  • Reply 4 of 16
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    If you're not happy with it you can send it to me
  • Reply 5 of 16
    alcimedesalcimedes Posts: 5,486member
    is ti running that massive indexing/optimizing thing that OSX does the first few times it's running?



    other than that can't think of anything. should fly.



    -alcimedes
  • Reply 6 of 16
    rogue27rogue27 Posts: 607member
    One thing to watch out for is to make sure Sherlock is not doing it's indexing in the background under OS 9.
  • Reply 7 of 16
    sizzle chestsizzle chest Posts: 1,133member
    Check out the process manager and see what's hogging all your CPU.
  • Reply 8 of 16
    thuh freakthuh freak Posts: 2,664member
    you could drop into Terminal and type "top". It'll show u an updating list of progs/processes that are running and what percent of the processor(s) they use. you can then kill that view of top (type control-c), and "kill [pid of expensive process]". Replace the bracketed part with the process id (found in top) of a process u wish to kill (be it some indexer, runaway proc, ghost, legitimate heavy program or whatever). u may need permissions, so u might have to "sudo -s" (or just "su") to root b4 kill'ing the proc.
  • Reply 9 of 16
    i've got the same setup and it is fast. maybe it's you that's slow. i kid, i kid.



    not sure why yours seems so slugish. my ati 7500 is quite spiffy. it does sound like you have some sort of proscess running in the background that may be tying up a good chunk of your resources. also double check to see if all your ram is good.
  • Reply 10 of 16
    logan calelogan cale Posts: 1,281member
    [quote]Originally posted by starfleetX:

    <strong>Hello, McFly?



    "We have a 512MB 800MHz Quicksilver in the studio that is VERY slow"



    "We also have a 320MB 350MHz Yikes!"</strong><hr></blockquote>



    ::smacks head::



    I was just waking up... <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
  • Reply 11 of 16
    i'm having a similar problem with my G4/800 with the Radeon 7500. The video freezes every day or so, and keeps freezing until I trash the monitor prefs and dispaly prefs, then it's good for a day or so, and then starts to freeze up again.



    Would switching to a Geforce card fix this?



    [ 06-26-2002: Message edited by: robot prom ]</p>
  • Reply 12 of 16
    [quote]Originally posted by groverat:

    <strong>Rebuild the desktop.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    How do you rebuild the desktop under OSX?
  • Reply 13 of 16
    [quote]Originally posted by ThinkingDifferent:

    <strong>



    How do you rebuild the desktop under OSX?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    you don't.
  • Reply 14 of 16
    jregojrego Posts: 56member
    Try DiskWarrior from Alsoft, the universal fix for almost everything. Granted, it probably won't solve ALL your problems, but it certainly will get a bit better, at least.



    Excellent advice, thuh Freak, I use top as well when my system feels slow. Of course, I already know what's wrong: AIM. Don't use AIM. It takes up about half the system resources on my computer, more than 10x what Photoshop wants. Which is just rediculous. It starts small and then just grows to phenomenal proportions. Even WITH the news and stock tickers off (though that seems to help).
  • Reply 15 of 16
    [quote]Originally posted by jrego:

    <strong>Try DiskWarrior from Alsoft, the universal fix for almost everything. Granted, it probably won't solve ALL your problems...</strong><hr></blockquote>



    LOL, isn't that a bit of an oxy moron?
  • Reply 16 of 16
    Try switching the RAM with another PC 133 chip. If the RAM is just a little slow or broken, it can miss cycles and slow your computer down to half or a quarter of the speed it should be at. It happens from time to time.(time to time in the world, not intermittently in one machine )



    Oh, and oxymorons are self-contradictory phrases. Those are just two complementary sentences:



    A solves X% which isn't 100% of problems. I grant that X% is not %100...



    Perfect agreement.



    [ 06-29-2002: Message edited by: AllenChristopher ]</p>
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