Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
From: Delaware, USA
Quote:
Yasu wrote:
You could play h264 1080p movies on my 2.7 GHz G5 with about 80% CPU usage or lower. You rarely passed 90%, so I imagine slower G5:s can also play such movie files with no fuss (but with fan going at full speed).
Since the 2.3 GHz dual core cpu in my PCI-e G5 can be replaced with a single 2.5 GHz dual core cpu module from a quad G5, and the PCIe models bench higher than the AGP models, I'd expect the system I have on hand would be a close match with the system Yasu has mentioned 9but with the added benefit of PCIe expansion slots).
If the 2.3 and 2.5 GHz G5 PCIe systems match or beat X5000 performance, we may not need an expensive upgrade.
And, as I have mentioned before, if we really wanted an upgrade we would be looking at an e6500 cored system.
While running at a lower clock speed, this would have a definite advantage, especially if SMP were enabled.
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