[CUBE] Does anyone have a 7457 in their cube?

[Allan Hise]

It's a powerlogix upgrade. I got it from OWC http://eshop.macsales.com for
a bit under $600. I think it is $599 - $10 for the cubeowner
discount. Instructions are in DVD and PDF form.

The finder doesn't seem much faster, but everything else does. For
example, with the old CPU it would take 45-60 seconds top open a RAW
picture from my D100 in Nikon Capture, with the upgrade it was more like
10-15.

The whole system seemed to crawl when I was burning a DVD before, with teh
new CPU, I don't feel any slowdowns.

I've only had it installed for 12 hours now, and most of that time the
cube has been asleep. As I mentioned in another email, the cube slept &
woke just fine. I plan on doing some heavy duty crunching this
weekend to give it a workout.

Allan

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Kunga wrote:

> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 00:50:03 -0800
> From: Kunga <Kunga at FutureMedia.org>
> Reply-To: Cube List <Cube at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> To: Cube List <Cube at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: Re: [CUBE] Does anyone have a 7457 in their cube?
>
> How much money from whom? Instructions in what format from whom?
>
> Kunga
>
> On Jan 15, 2004, at 5:30 PM, Allan Hise wrote:
>
> > I just got my Powerlogix 1.4 GHz 7457 installed.
> > Xbench Before (450 MHz): 64.97
> > Xbench After: 122.65
> >
> > Not quite 2x. Strangely enough, the hard disk score dropped in the
> > upgraded run. Not sure why. Other than disk, the new cpu smokes the
> > old.
> >
> > Excerpts from Xbench.
> > 			New		old
> > CPU Test		167.49		50.33
> > Thread Test		118.26		40.15
> > Memory Test		101.94		77.72
> > Quartz Graphics Test	146.27		71.28
> > OpenGL Graphics Test	126.54		61.30
> > User Interface Test	219.27		100.51
> > Disk Test		70.09		102.02	*huh*??
> > 	Sequential	92.09		104.42
> > 	Random		56.58		99.72	*this is weird*
> > 		Uncached Write: 30.85	93.82	*this kills it *
> > 		Uncached Write:	58.08	101.14  *and this *
> >
> > What happened to my drive?? The CPU is th eonly change. And teh fan, of
> > course.
> >
> > BTW, I barely notice the fan, at least with my wife's Linux box in the
> > same room.
> >
> > allan
>
>
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