5200fx too slow reading simple pdf files ?

[macwanttobe]

Hi there !

 

First of all a big thank you to a community that actually made my dreams come true :-) "Building" a mac is now possible for the crowd...

 

I have JAS 10.4.8 installed on:

 

Pentium D 820, Asrock 4core Dual VSTA, Geforce 5200fx, 1gb PC 3200 Ram, 160gb HD with an Acer AL1916W connected to it - my 22" Maestro is not supported yet :-(

 

Mac OS installed perfect and ran fine after installing DUAL VSTA 4.1(incl. Natit Drivers) and ALC888 Audiodrivers.

 

Now to my problem:

 

Moving windows feels quick as does that little effect when you minimize to dock ... but resizing them or scrolling is very slow(especially with many pictures). Example would be reading a pdf file or a website with many pics - Scrolling through the text i feel like its scrolling at 2 fps. I checked if QE/CI is working so that can´t be the problem. I will add XBench results. Hope you guys can help me - searching the forum brought up nothing.

 

Results 60.22

System Info

Xbench Version 1.3

System Version 10.4.8 (8L2127)

Physical RAM 1024 MB

Model ADP2,1

Drive Type ST3160021A

CPU Test 64.47

GCD Loop 85.03 4.48 Mops/sec

Floating Point Basic 72.87 1.73 Gflop/sec

vecLib FFT 48.45 1.60 Gflop/sec

Floating Point Library 62.80 10.94 Mops/sec

Thread Test 154.95

Computation 138.79 2.81 Mops/sec, 4 threads

Lock Contention 175.36 7.54 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads

Memory Test 70.42

System 66.51

Allocate 62.68 230.17 Kalloc/sec

Fill 83.17 4044.07 MB/sec

Copy 58.38 1205.90 MB/sec

Stream 74.81

Copy 71.23 1471.27 MB/sec

Scale 71.48 1476.77 MB/sec

Add 78.99 1682.74 MB/sec

Triad 78.24 1673.65 MB/sec

Quartz Graphics Test 43.17

Line 42.90 2.86 Klines/sec [50% alpha]

Rectangle 28.74 8.58 Krects/sec [50% alpha]

Circle 28.78 2.35 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]

Bezier 70.58 1.78 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]

Text 113.41 7.09 Kchars/sec

OpenGL Graphics Test 59.83

Spinning Squares 59.83 75.90 frames/sec

User Interface Test 42.40

Elements 42.40 194.62 refresh/sec

 

Thx

[macwanttobe]

Ok, I played around on my Macbook Pro and found out: Even on that you can notice a little lag when resizing windows which have many flash animations in them... I guess it just is the Geforce FX. Its not the fastest and considering my results in cinebench compared to the Macbook i think a different Card will do the trick.