[videian28]

I have a dual 1.42 120 gig, 1 gig ram, radeon 9000

I xbenched it for the first time last night, never having used the program before.

When I posted my stats, it compared me to a baseline system, a dual 800, while I smoked that system, the disk scores were same or lower on most of them. I then looked up some of the other machines avaliable, some dual 1.25's and 1.42's and some of them were 20 points higher, all due to the hard disk scores.

I think I ended up with a 143.. is that normal or ? I did run it twice once normal, then used cocktail and cleaned everything up (caches, swap file, ect..)

any insight here?


here is my machine

http://ladd.dyndns.org/xbench/merge.xhtml?doc2=25831

[Jupeman]

I'd have to check with the detail scores on my 1.42 (remember, the one I was trying to sell you? ), but I think I'm at about 148, so comparable to what you scored.

I just looked at my results last night, too, as I was comparing them to the 1.6Ghz G5 results posted elsewhere. I hope the G5s are faster than their XBench scores. I hope the author of XBench updates the software for G5s because I think XBench is a neat program.

[Hydra]

Disk scores may be limited by the actual drive in use. Do you have more than one drive on your ATA cable? If you have a slower 120GB drive than someone with a dual 800 and a faster drive may have better results. Even though the older dual 800 has ATA66 as standard and your new dual 1.42 has ATA 100, the drive itself is the limiting factor. ATA 66 is not even saturated by the fastest drives available today. Drive transfer speed is one aspect of todays computers that has lagged most.

Even if everything is up to spec I would not expect to have a huge difference between my dual 800 and my dual 2.0 G5 on order. The biggest advantage the new G5's have is that with SATA you are only allowed 1 drive per channel (each has 150 MB/s) whereas 2 drives on an older ATA66/100/133 share the same bandwidth and can cause slowdowns. Another SATA advantage is they require less CPU overhead (similar to the advantage Firewire has over USB).


-Jerry C.