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Luca
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Minnesota
 
2004-09-06, 09:20

My own score:

139.68 Overall
161.72 CPU test
118.13 Thread test
111.57 Memory test
166.23 Quartz graphics test
136.50 OpenGL graphics test
235.41 User Interface test
112.17 Disk test

My overall score is just a little lower, by about 16 points. CPU test is only slightly lower, impressive considering the iMac has 467 MHz on me. I edge it out in the thread test but it womps me in memory (duh, PC133 vs. PC2700 on a 133 MHz vs. 600 MHz bus). It also edged me out in the two graphics tests, which is weird since at the time I ran that benchmark I had a GeForce 3. For some reason, upgrading to the Radeon 9800 Pro actually LOWERED my Quartz and OpenGL scores, but it's clearly a much faster card. It wins in the user interface test, probably because it simply has a higher clock speed. Finally, my computer wins in the disk test. I'm guessing Apple isn't using hard drives with 8 MB of cache.

Although XBench isn't totally accurate (I mean, given that my graphics card benches lower but is much faster), I still think a new iMac would be similar to my computer in performance. I might think about getting an iMac eventually, once it can score... say... 100 points higher than mine. For now, I have an excellent machine.
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