[bstone]

I am pleased to say that today I had the pleasure of setting up and test running a G5/1.8ghz. 512mb RAM, 160gb HD...thing is FASTTTTTT.

Too bad it isn't my machine to use. I'm just the computer guy here.

[AssassyN]

Here? WHERE? CompUSA? Apple Store?

[Conscript]

pics?

[ThisGuy]

the G5 service manual just came out and it is one EASY machine to service.

[Brazuca]

Originally posted by bstone:
I am pleased to say that today I had the pleasure of setting up and test running a G5/1.8ghz. 512mb RAM, 160gb HD...thing is FASTTTTTT.

Too bad it isn't my machine to use. I'm just the computer guy here.

details.

Can you add ram and run PS7 bench?

We need some numbers before some people's heads explode.

[bstone]

Arrived here, at my work, the University of Chicago. If someone wants to explain to me how to do a bench mark on PS7 (which I installed and downloaded the G5 update for) I'd be happy to do it.

A lack of digital camera prohibits me from posting photos. Anyone in Chicago want to come over and take pics?

[SteveJobs]

There is a PhotoshopBench suite out there, someone have the link at hand?

Can you post XBench results? If possible, can you run Quake, UT2k3 in standard settings on this machine? Would be interesting.

Steve

[Esquare]

Originally posted by bstone:
Arrived here, at my work, the University of Chicago. If someone wants to explain to me how to do a bench mark on PS7 (which I installed and downloaded the G5 update for) I'd be happy to do it.

The benchmark can be found at http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Cafe/4363/

Be sure to read the instructions about screen size and history setting etc.

[Eriamjh]

Forget pics, we all know what they look like.

People want benchmarks.

I, personally, would like to see iTunes ripping speeds, iDVD render times, or iMovie render times compared to the G4.

I realize that might be too much to ask.

[jrod7350]

Just load up the action and play it out. Also you need at least 512MB of RAM (so we don't go through the same fiasco we did on another thread here), and reduce your history states to "1" by going into the Preferences (under the Adobe Photoshop menu), and under General turn the history states to "1" (there'll be a little drop down menu that says "general"). Next go to the "windows" menu and select the actions. Now the actions menu should pop up. Click on the little while arrow in the upper right-hand corner and a drop down menu should appear. Select "load actions", and then go through the hard drive to where you've saved the Photoshop7Bench.atn file (.atn is the extension for actions) and that should then become a new action set. Click on the action and hit the "play" button at the bottom of the actions menu. Hope this helps, and if it was self-explanitory (or you knew it already), please don't feel like I was insulting your intelligence.

P.S. One more thing-turn the status bar to the "timings" option. You do this by clicking on the status bar (which is located at the bottom left hand of the canvas window), and there is a button with an right-facing arrow on it. Click it and select "timing". The status bar should then read something in seconds instead of saying what size the file was, or the color profile being using on the file. Also when you do some of the tests like Gaussian blurs, watch the number carefully, as it will update twice, once when the filter completes, and once when the screen finishes redrawing. Photoshop will simply add on the time that it took to redraw the screen, giving you a higher number (usually on my Dual 1Ghz with GForce4MX it's around .2-.4 seconds depending on the filter). You want the lower number when filter finishes-we're not benchmarking the screen refresh-rate of the graphics card. So those are a couple caveats to watch out for.