Don't suppose you can show your hard disk benchmark, I'm just curious.

That is a very low score you got there.

really?! do you think so, megaargon?lol:))

#check the 4th comment on this page

:) yes I think so, LOL. Not trying to bring you down in any way. =) What are your specs? Just wondering.

never mind, found them (:-))

Processor: AMD Athlon™ 64 3200+(Venice) 2.0 Ghz / MMX, 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64
Motherboard: MSi Amethyst-M
Graphics: Ati Radeon Xpress 200
Hard Drive: Samsung IDE (160 GB)
Sound card: Realtek AC97 Audio
Memory: 1280 MB DDR Kingston

i'll show you tomorrow because i'm at work now... but HDs are the chains to the feets of my system..
do you think it's a good benchmark?

Yes pretty good, I think hard drives are most peoples low points, anyone with a maxtor seems to have an advantage in that area

heres my latest

http://www.86.talktalk.net/xbench2.png

here are mine
is this good??

Results 97.95
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.2 (9C31)
Physical RAM 1024 MB
Model MacPro3,1
Drive Type ST3160812AS
CPU Test 74.18
GCD Loop 116.66 6.15 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 83.63 1.99 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 43.18 1.42 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 97.70 17.01 Mops/sec
Thread Test 136.14
Computation 100.45 2.03 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 211.15 9.08 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 104.69
System 91.20
Allocate 194.48 714.19 Kalloc/sec
Fill 80.23 3901.12 MB/sec
Copy 65.40 1350.80 MB/sec
Stream 122.86
Copy 119.00 2457.93 MB/sec
Scale 120.12 2481.61 MB/sec
Add 127.28 2711.25 MB/sec
Triad 125.43 2683.21 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 149.08
Line 119.51 7.96 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 153.32 45.77 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 130.41 10.63 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 119.50 3.01 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 382.82 23.95 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 96.59
Spinning Squares 96.59 122.53 frames/sec
User Interface Test 150.66
Elements 150.66 691.44 refresh/sec
Disk Test 57.52
Sequential 97.84
Uncached Write 72.05 44.24 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 118.08 66.81 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 87.04 25.47 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 141.92 71.33 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 40.73
Uncached Write 14.21 1.50 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 100.22 32.08 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 92.03 0.65 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 143.42 26.61 MB/sec [256K blocks]

for the leopard,is it Guid better for mbr?

With guid you´ll have better system and disk performance and other possibilities like making partitions without losing data.

and how to change to the GUID system from mbr system?which tools should i use?

only one HD? you can´t, you need a clean install and select the correct partition scheme.

GUID

Which are the benefits to have GUID vs MBR partition? GUID is more close to a real mac?
At the moment i can see a bad thing... i can't backup the partition with AcronisTrueImage. It can't see GUID partition... so i'm looking for something else...

Use clone backup utilities that are designed to make an image of a Mac, not PC. Google is your friend. =D

superduper and CarbonCopy crash about 4 seconds from start create image... i'll try with diskUtility. If system is damaged (don't start anymore) is it possible with disk utility to restore image and boot again?

here's a very strange thing.. i added another 512 ram to my system :) and guess whats my xbench score now? 31.06 :))
http://filebeam.com/d5d7b77d210b5f27...b4cdaab663.jpg

Your memory test score has dropped considerably, do you have many options in bios for memory?

i have and OEM PC meaning restricted bios settings :(.. why did i bought an HP ..why :)

Insanity?

Try re-arrainging the memory sticks, it sometimes works wonders!

ok... same results :)

strange that it would drop?
I guess your only solutions are learn to live with it or
Second hand pc for sale!

Heres mine :)

Specs:

OS X: Leopard 10.5.2, EFI & Guid
Board: Gigabyte K8NF-9 Rev 1
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+
RAM: 2gb Corsair TwinX XMS3200 C2
Graphic: Asus GeForce 6600 GT
HD: Maxtor DiamondMax 10, 200 GB
Control: Apple Keyboard, Apple Mighty Mouse

10.5.2 Rev. 2
A8N-SLI Deluxe
Athlon 64 X2 4600+
3GB PC3200
NVidia Geforce 6600GT PCI-E 128MB
PS/2 Keyboard & Mouse
IDE HDD & DVD-RW

Your memory test is a little low for your system, could I suggest looking for a 1T setting in your bios.

Ok i'll try it

maybe a bad stick of ram?

OS X: Leopard 10.5.2 rev.2 , EFI & MBR by Zephyroth
Board: ABIT KN9SLI
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+
RAM: 4*1GB OCZ Platinum
Graphic: Gainward 8600GT 256 Goes Hell
HD: WD 3200AAKS 320GB SATA II
CD/DVD: Samsung SH-S202N IDE

So these are my results from my 10.5.1 install:

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Zeph 10.5.1
Asus A8N5K Mainboard (nForce 4)
Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (939)
2GB DDR400 (Corsair)
ATi x1600 Pro 512mb (only 256mb detected) QE/CI working
2 WD 120gb Sata II drives
1 Hitachi 80gb 2.5" laptop drive

And here's my current setup:

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Changed is a GeForce 8600GTS instead of the x1600 and the 1 120gb Sata drives are in a striped array.
Considerable improvement for the hard drive score.

One thing I'm kind of wondering, is why the OpenGL test is lower for the 8600GTS than the x1600?

My results from 10.5.2 rev1
http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m...nch_result.png

CPU: AMD X2 5600+
MOBO: Gigabyte MA790X-DS4
GFX: Gigabyte 8800 GTS 320MB
RAM: 2GB Corsair XMS2 CL4
HDD: Hitachi 160GB Sata2, Hitachi 320GB Sata2
DVD: Pioneer DVR-212D Sata

My Xbench results with Zephyroth 10.5.2 rev2

HP XW9300
Tyan K8WE mobo
2xOpterons 252 (2.6 Ghz)
4GB DDR Ram
150GB WD Raptor 10000rpm (Xbench total = 115 with Seagate 320GB 7200rpm)
Nvidia 7300GT (Tried to enable CI/QE on my Nvidia Quadro FX3400 with no success)

My results:

Zephyroth 10.5.2 rev.2
Abit AV8 mobo
Athlon 64 3200+
2GB DDR-400 RAM
Nvidia 6800GT 256MB AGP
Maxtor 7L250S0


Results 39.25
CPU Test 65.73
Thread Test 70.75
Memory Test 107.13
Quartz Graphics Test 27.80
OpenGL Graphics Test 58.19
User Interface Test 12.93
Disk Test 108.84

Seems OK, except my Graphics and User Interface figures, which are very poor indeed. I have QE/CI enabled. I'm using NVinject 0.2.0 - can I ask what others with Nvidia vards are using?

NVinject 0.2.1 here with Zeph's Nvidia installer.

http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/8973/xbenchcg2.png

Doix is your new RAM Stick the same mhz frequency like the others?

yes they are

are you in single mode or dual mode wit h your sticks?

single

uhm check the memory with a program or try switching to dual mode :/

Computer performance and internet speed are outstanding.

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OS X: Leopard 10.5.2, MBR - EFI & Guid
Board: MSI K9N Diamond
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+
RAM: 4 GB Kingston HyperX DDR2 ( maxmem =3200)
Graphic: ATI 1950 pro dual DVI
HD: SATA II WD 160 GB, SATA II Maxtor 320 GB, IDE to usb Maxtor IDE 320 GB for time machine
Control: Apple Keyboard, Logitech Mx mouse
Monitors: SyncMaster 245bw, dell 19 inch

Snow,
Your disk test results are almost twice what everyone else has. Do you happen to know why?

Because its a maxtor check out everyone else who has a maxtor all over 100!
I should specify I mean sata 1 "real maxtors not seagates"

I didn't even know that Lanxxx, thx for the update lol. And you are correct, this one is SATA I, I have XP and Vista on the other Seagate SATA II.

Well, I'm selling my gear and already got a potential buyer bro. I'm fed up with OSX on AMD. Do you know if I will run into probs with the E8400 and 4GB RAM on a GA-P35-DS3P?

Thx

No problems as far as I know. The 4 gig problems thing seems to be to do with the kext for the sata controller so if you do get a problem with what you install just find an update for the kext. I think this only applies to ICH9 though I don't think theres any problems with ICH9R

K one more question cause I'm getting too much off topic here.

I mainly use Logic 8 and Lightroom/Photoshop CS3 but want to play a game now and then (rarely these days) will I profit more from a Q6600 or E8400?
Thing is, I want my system noise free too like it is now. Every fan is running at lowest speed or 7volts so the stock or 3rd party cooler for the Quad has to run very low too and I noticed the Quads can get quite hotter then the dual cores. Any input on this bud?
Also, is it easy to run the Quad at 3 Ghz?

Alright now back to benchies, have fun lads.

I can only tell you what I know in theory quad = 95w
e8400=65w

What games support more than dual core?

e8400 3ghz 6mb cache £120 unboxed £140 boxed

I know which I would go for personally.