How do I check if my computer is running a well as it can?

[oneshot]

So I've noticed that OSX doesn't seem as smooth as a real mac, and I would have guessed that.

But what it seems like is that my mom and brothers macbooks are running faster than mine with my hardware being better than theres.

Here are my system specs:

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o9/joe_vinci/AboutmyMAC.png

My moms computer has a like 2.0 Ghz CPU and only 1 mb of ram and the video card is pretty crappy.

It just seems like my CPU isn't working as well as it can. Same goes with my ram...idk

[Ianxxx]

maybe start with xbench.
view other peoples results? Compare to results on a mac?
http://www.infinitemac.com/f7/xbench-results-t1829/

[oneshot]

Thank you for the suggestion, I did that and it looks like everything below user interface looked low....same with vecLib FFT

Do you know what those test affect? Also do you know how to fix them? Thank you for all your help ^_^





Results 34.49
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.5 (9F33)
Physical RAM 2048 MB
Model Mac Pro
Drive Type WDC WD800JB-00ETA0 WDC WD800JB-00ETA0
CPU Test 98.71
GCD Loop 156.02 8.22 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 112.35 2.67 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 57.37 1.89 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 128.48 22.37 Mops/sec
Thread Test 167.28
Computation 127.25 2.58 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 244.05 10.50 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 137.60
System 144.84
Allocate 193.26 709.73 Kalloc/sec
Fill 141.47 6878.58 MB/sec
Copy 118.07 2438.75 MB/sec
Stream 131.04
Copy 132.21 2730.83 MB/sec
Scale 129.16 2668.45 MB/sec
Add 133.74 2848.99 MB/sec
Triad 129.17 2763.24 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 189.22
Line 145.65 9.70 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 201.16 60.06 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 167.05 13.62 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 153.78 3.88 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 476.44 29.80 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 130.41
Spinning Squares 130.41 165.43 frames/sec


User Interface Test 12.33
Elements 12.33 56.61 refresh/sec
Disk Test 11.69
Sequential 8.76
Uncached Write 7.66 4.70 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 7.38 4.17 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 14.11 4.13 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 8.37 4.21 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 17.56
Uncached Write 10.52 1.11 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 13.61 4.36 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 69.92 0.50 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 22.25 4.13 MB/sec [256K blocks]

[Ianxxx]

Your tests look okay to me compared with similar systems they seem quite good, except for your hard drive which is errr really really bad.

[oneshot]

lol thanks. My hardrive is really old. I have a sata hardrive but Idk what I need to do to get a SATA hardrive to work with OSX.

Is my hardrive probably making my computer go really slow or what do you think my hardrive is affecting?

Btw thank you for all these great answers!

[Ali C.]

Ah, those were the kind of hard drive readings I was getting out of my Hack before I applied some kexts for the southbridge. Chances are that's where your performance bottleneck lies, and it won't matter if you're using IDE or SATA. Experience spoken for here.

[oneshot]

So...you think its because of my motherboard?