Were there any multicore G Series processors? Stephen
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 4:50 PM, jonas ulrich <jonasulrich3...@gmail.com>wrote: > Question: I am looking at another Dual 1 ghz powermac quicksilver. In the > picture i can see the computer says 1mb L3 chache per processor. I thought > those had 2mb cach?-Jonas > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:15 PM, jonas ulrich > <jonasulrich3...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Yeah I have thought about a hackintosh... I would need patients to find >> the drivers and stuff though... someone just bought the powermac I was >> looking at!!! luckily there are several others... -Jonas >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:32 AM, PeterH <peterh5...@rattlebrain.com>wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Mar 12, 2009, at 9:15 AM, jonas ulrich wrote: >>> >>> > I just received an answer in regard to the discrepancy in the item >>> > description. He said: "In one part is says single core. That is >>> > correct there are 2 single core processors" Tell me if this is >>> > correct: The new macs like the macbook have only one processor, but >>> > it is a dual core. This quicksilver has two single core processors. >>> > Is this right? It still means that it is a dual processor, right? >>> >>> All G4s are single-core. >>> >>> The subject machine has two single-core processors, each of which has >>> 2 MB of independent L3 cache (unlike the multi-core Intel Core 2 >>> processors where all the L3 cache is shared between all cores). >>> >>> So, you get two relatively independent processors, and with that you >>> can do some serious work. >>> >>> However, just to place some numbers on the capabilities of the dual >>> 1.0 GHz G4 and an Intel-based solutions (yes, Hacks), consider the >>> following, each example which is authoring a single-layer DVD from >>> the same source files which exceed the capacity of a single-layer >>> DVD, and which is about as compute-intensive as it gets: >>> >>> 1) Dual 1.0 GHz G4 -- 60 minutes [ 10.4.11, 1.5 GB 133 MHz RAM ] >>> >>> 2) Core 2 Duo E8400 running at 3.6 GHz -- 12.5 minutes (4.8 times as >>> fast) [ 10.5.5, 2 GB 800 MHz RAM ] >>> >>> 3) Core 2 Quad Q9400 running at 3.2 GHz -- 10 minutes ( 6 times as >>> fast) [ 10.5.6, 2 GB 800 MHz RAM ] >>> >>> So, if you really want to pump the work through your machine, perhaps >>> you could consider an Intel solution. >>> >>> As a practical matter, I still run a DA with a QS 2000 dual 1.0 GHz >>> processor, mainly for Mail.app and for Classic. Almost all other work >>> has been transferred to the Intels. >>> >>> >>> http://groups.google.com/group/hq-a <+> A home for the Hackintosh >>> community. >>> >>> To subscribe to the HQ-A group, send email to hq-a >>> +subscr...@googlegroups.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
