Iceman Posted October 13, 2005 Share Posted October 13, 2005 Hi all, This morning i tried tiger-x86.iso and Marklar-Tiger.iso (patched by generic patcher release1) I have: P4 530 3ghz socket 775 Biostar i915G-m7 256mb ddr pc3200 (tomorrow i will buy other 512mb...) hd 20gb dvd-rw pioneer (superdrive) I tried this morning with tiger-x86.iso and i was happy cause it worked perfect. This evening i installed Marklar dvd and it was better!! I choose SSE3 (and not enabled SSE2 on installation) I don't know why, but using this dvd worked better... the plus was: - Apple keyboard + apple mouse usb worked - Stop and resume works perfect - Activity monitor "see" 2 cpu Anyway, this motherboard is perfect! Intel GMA900 tiger core image supported Audio (ALC655) supported Network (realtek) supported Ide and serial ata worked Now, i have some questions: Is normal that PPC application take about 30 seconds to start? Or if i upgrade my ram i will get better performance? (universal binarys is fast as lightspeed!) Or do i have to patch any file to get better performance from rosetta? I suppose this cause safari open in 2-3 seconds and itunes take about 30 seconds... (upgraded to 6.0 nothing changes...) And if i try the SSE3->SSE2 patch? (i know i have sse3... but i can't believe PPC application can be so slow...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrunner Posted October 13, 2005 Share Posted October 13, 2005 Congrats, nice Intel setup I think you have too little RAM. Transitive code (Rosetta) will run much faster with more RAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceman Posted October 13, 2005 Author Share Posted October 13, 2005 Are you sure? "much faster"? not only "a little faster"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrunner Posted October 13, 2005 Share Posted October 13, 2005 minimum of 1GB of main memory, and preferably 2GB or more. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050810-5195.html What does all of this mean for Mac users? First off, it means that anyone who plans to use Rosetta heavily will need plenty of memory. A while back, Transitive CEO Bob Wiederhold told the SJ Mercury News that translated apps will eat up about 25% more memory than their non-translated counterparts. I suspect that this number is an average, and not the result of a fixed code cache size that's allocated on a per-application basis. (Not that there's not a ceiling on the size of the translated code cache—there probably is—but I suspect that the code cache is kept as small as possible.) So make plans to order that new Intel-based Mac with a minimum of 1GB of main memory, and preferably 2GB or more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceman Posted October 13, 2005 Author Share Posted October 13, 2005 I hope 768mb will be enough!! I will talk you tomorrow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceman Posted October 14, 2005 Author Share Posted October 14, 2005 I can confirm, now with 768mb ram, system is really faster.... more than i could imagine... iTunes open in 5 seconds and if i quit (?+Q) and restart, it takes 1-2 seconds!! I am happy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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