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Some PPC OpenMark benchmarks
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Also here are tests with overclocking. Not much better but dangerous.
When the memory clock speed is more than +15% or around that, a vertical line appears on my screen. Not in screenshots though.
When the memory clock speed is more than +15% or around that, a vertical line appears on my screen. Not in screenshots though.
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Intel Mac score varies depending on OS
Did you test again in Snow Leopard? It seems to have made quite a difference on my late 2008 MacBook Air with NVIDIA GeForce 9400M compared to when it is running 10.9.
Did you test again in Snow Leopard? It seems to have made quite a difference on my late 2008 MacBook Air with NVIDIA GeForce 9400M compared to when it is running 10.9.
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Overclocked FireGL X3 with graphs
I remember by flashed FireGL X3 scoring around 14700, and 18500 overclocked, once reaching slightly over 20000 in OpenMark on a dual 1.8GHz G5.
Digged up the original link... (but not over the 20K+ score):
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1348675/
I remember by flashed FireGL X3 scoring around 14700, and 18500 overclocked, once reaching slightly over 20000 in OpenMark on a dual 1.8GHz G5.
Digged up the original link... (but not over the 20K+ score):
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1348675/
I benchmarked my recently acquired 4Ti 4600, and was able to replicate the 4428 value reported earlier.
Unfortunately, the card is in a computer that is not currently connected to the internet(and is giving me fits over connecting) so don't have a screen shot at the moment.
My test was in a 4x AGP Digital Audio. I'm going to try it in a 2x GigE as soon as I can(maybe tomorrow) and see if that changes the value.
Unfortunately, the card is in a computer that is not currently connected to the internet(and is giving me fits over connecting) so don't have a screen shot at the moment.
My test was in a 4x AGP Digital Audio. I'm going to try it in a 2x GigE as soon as I can(maybe tomorrow) and see if that changes the value.
Where do I download OpenMark?I want to test this on the DAG4 but I cannot find a download link anywhere!!
Nevermind; found one at macpowerpc.com
(for some reason I cannot paste here anymore! And right-clicking does a left click (only here though)
http://cl.ly/000z03160y1L1M0F3w1i
Just saw your nevermind
Wow, that's a huge difference! I don't have Snow Leopard installed on the machine and don't really plan to, so I probably won't end up testing that. But that's a very surprising difference
Also, I didn't see bax2003's question about my X1950 XT until just now; but for anyone wondering, I just have a standard 256MB, dual-slot PC X1950 XT, and this is the ROM I used. If that helps anyone.
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Wow, that's a huge difference! I don't have Snow Leopard installed on the machine and don't really plan to, so I probably won't end up testing that. But that's a very surprising difference
I wish I had Snow Leopard
I have nearly every OS but Snow Leopard.
I wish I had Snow Leopard
$22 and free shipping, right from Apple.
And then you can stop wishing...
They've raised it in the last few weeks. I ordered it three or four weeks back, and it was $20(although I had to pay state sales tax).
SL Server is the same price, although you have to call to order it.
BTW, there's exactly one version of OS X which I've never used-Mountain Lion. I currently have computers running every other version. My late '11 MBP shipped with Lion, and I skipped ML to go directly to Mavericks. When the hard drive died, the Genius very nearly put ML on the computer for me(this was after Mavericks was out) but I requested Lion instead. I should have let him do it so that I could check that one off my list for free
. If I really wanted to, I could buy it and then put another partition on one of my computers for it, but I haven't seen the need.
I wish I had Snow Leopard
I suggest you grab a new copy off the Apple store while you still can: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
I am still missing everything before Leopard, unfortunately.
BTW, there's exactly one version of OS X which I've never used-Mountain Lion. I currently have computers running every other version. My late '11 MBP shipped with Lion, and I skipped ML to go directly to Mavericks. When the hard drive died, the Genius very nearly put ML on the computer for me(this was after Mavericks was out) but I requested Lion instead. I should have let him do it so that I could check that one off my list for free
If I really wanted to, I could buy it and then put another partition on one of my computers for it, but I haven't seen the need.
Ah Mountain Lion, the first version of OS X I ever used, on a new 15" rMBP no less. Although passing it up for Mavericks on a Mac with an SSD is a sensible thing to do nowadays.
I have never used Lion, actually.
Lion gets a lot of hate, but I'm a bit fond of it as it was the first version of OS X I used. I currently have two computers running it-my Blackbook and my late '06 C2D iMac. Both of these are "stuck" at Lion.
I think that the very first rMBPs shipped with Lion installed if I remember right...Both ML and the 15" Retina were announced at WWDC 2012, but I don't think that ML shipped until later in the fall.
Tiger and Leopard are my go-to OS X versions on PPC computers. Truthfully, if a computer can't run Leopard(i.e. a G3) I tend to use OS 9 primarily, although most of my NWR G3s do have Tiger installed.
I do have a G4 running Public Beta to 10.5. I have 10.6(server) on my Mini, and have my early '08 MBP set up to dual boot 10.9 and 10.6. I mentioned my two computer running 10.7 above. I'm running 10.9 on both my MBPs, and 10.10 on my White Macbook.
I also have a B&W G3 running every DP along with two different versions of Rhapsody(I think Rhapsody DP V2 and OS X Server 1.2v3)
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You are correct, Lion was the original OS for mid 2012 rMBPs. Mountain Lion was released on July 25, 2012 and by the time I got my rMBP a month later it had been shipped with it installed.
I've tried. My Yikes! has a Radeon 7000, but OpenGL crashes every time I try to run a benchmark.
I picked up another one the other day. I may try it in my Xserve G5(what it was supposedly pulled from) and see if I benchmark it.
I have 8.6, 9.1/9.2.2, 10.0, 10.2.8, 10.3.9 scattered about on a few of my PowerPC Macs, although as you might expect most of them are on Tiger or Leopard. My 2008 MacBook Air now triple-boots Snow Leopard, Mavericks, and Yosemite (although it'll be staying in Snow Leopard until the SSD arrives), my 2012 mini is on Mavericks Server, and the rest of my Intel Macs are on Yosemite (although I do have SL installed on my 27" 2010 iMac).
If I'd put a bigger SSD in my Blackbook, I might have it set up to triple boot 10.5, 10.6, and 10.7. As it is, I only have 10.7 on it now, although could probably make room for the others if I gave them a big enough partition.
Interestingly, the computer actually came out a week before the public release of Leopard, but my 10.5.0 retail disk refused to install on it. I tracked down the original restore disks(which I think were 10.5.0 also) and was able to install it. I ended up taking it off because it wasn't happy on the 20gb partition I'd given it.
Somewhere along the way, I also cloned a 10.5.8 install from one of my PPC computers onto it and it worked fine.
I seem to recall reading somewhere that the earliest Intel Macs would actually boot off an APM formatted drive. I've not tested it, but suspect that if that is true, I could freely swap drives between my '06 Mini and PPC computers. The Mini is enough of a pain to take apart, though, that I don't want to do it for the sake of experimenting
. I could always use an APM external.
If I'd put a bigger SSD in my Blackbook, I might have it set up to triple boot 10.5, 10.6, and 10.7. As it is, I only have 10.7 on it now, although could probably make room for the others if I gave them a big enough partition.
Interestingly, the computer actually came out a week before the public release of Leopard, but my 10.5.0 retail disk refused to install on it. I tracked down the original restore disks(which I think were 10.5.0 also) and was able to install it. I ended up taking it off because it wasn't happy on the 20gb partition I'd given it.
Somewhere along the way, I also cloned a 10.5.8 install from one of my PPC computers onto it and it worked fine.
I seem to recall reading somewhere that the earliest Intel Macs would actually boot off an APM formatted drive. I've not tested it, but suspect that if that is true, I could freely swap drives between my '06 Mini and PPC computers. The Mini is enough of a pain to take apart, though, that I don't want to do it for the sake of experimenting
The 2008 MacBook Air has no Firewire port or support for Target Disk Mode and a LIF connector and 1.8" form factor for the hard drive. Because of this, after I put in the 128 GB SSD I've had to reinstall everything from scratch. So far I've got Snow Leopard and Yosemite done, and plan to do Mavericks and possibly Mountain Lion later.
The late 2007 Macbook originally came with 10.5.
As much as I'd like to see Leopard run on an Intel Mac, I can't help but dread the process of cloning a G5 to the MacBook Air (it shipped with Leopard 10.5.5, so my 10.5.1 disk won't work either). Snow Leopard is close enough anyway, and better in may ways.