Here are some xBench scores. For reference I've included my G4 Sawtooth. The order of scores is 8600 (G3/300/384Mb/8Gb/Rage 128) iBook (500/384/15), Pismo (400/512/30), G4 (500/1Gb/180Gb/ATI8500). Total: 17.3, 31.8, 38.3, 70.5, CPU: 19.4, 32.2, 27.0, 59.5, Memory: 7.6, 15.7, 24.3, 77.1, Quartz: 19.7, 39.0, 57.5, 82.8, OpenGL: 43.9, 65.5, 54.3, 59.1, UI: 41.2, 35.6, 72.9, 115.4, Disk: 12.1, 34.0, 36.4, 99.9. There are a few results in there that don't make much sense, like the iBook and Pismo being up with the Radeon 8500 for OpenGL, but the results are pretty consistent over several tests. Memory speed and disk speed seem to be the 8600s bottlenecks. Can the 8600 boot from a firewire drive? That would help the drive speed issue, but is there anything I can do about memory speed? I de-interleaved the RAM to install OS X, would interleaving it make much difference? Thanks James
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