[G4] System Performance Memory

Daniel Brieck Jr. djbrieck at mac.com
Mon May 1 16:22:30 PDT 2006


Does anyone know from a past experience how much of a performance  
penalty is achieved by doing something like this.

With all the talk of memory on here lately PC-133 Vs PC-100 ,etc.

I decided to do some checking of my own and discovered to my surprise  
a PC-100 module. My computer is a Power Mac G4 Quicksilver 867 Mhz  
and it can take full advantage of PC-133 memory with a 133 MHZ system  
bus. Well, anyway I was wondering if anyone knew of how much of a  
real world performance penalty I am causing myself. To my  
understanding this computer slows all of the other ram to 100 Mhz if  
a PC-100 module is used.

I will do the test myself next week of pulling out the PC-100  
module , but for now i am just wondering how much if any of a speed- 
boost will be noticed.

Now I am running:

512MB PC-133
512MB PC-100
512MB PC-133

Plan to test it without the PC-100 chip, and also with a 128 MB  
PC-133 chip. I wonder what I might get for results....  If I will  
need to buy a 512 MB PC-133 or not....

I plan to do performance testing using xbench and Super Pi

  I will post the result next week sometime. Too busy now with  
Finals, etc...

Daniel J. Brieck Jr.






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