madski77 Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 I've installed the Kalyway 10.5.1 install and it is working practically flawlessly. However I am wondering as to why my specs are turning out to be slower than some of the other test scores for people with exactly the same configuration as mine if not less than mine. I have an: Asus P5W DH Intel Q6600 2.4 over-clocked to 2.88 (all 4 cores are reading equal and correct) 2x2GB = 4gb of DDR2-800 (set as DDR2-667MHZ in bios) ram NVIDA GeForce 8800GTS with 640mb (only recognizing 256mb though as of now due to drivers) 2 500GB Seagate Barracuda Sata drives in EZ RAID 0 = 1TB (hardware RAID0 through Motherboard) Pioneer DVDRW DVR-109 yet my xbench score came out to = 144.01 and my geekbench score came out to = 5091 http://macapper.com/2008/01/19/diy-hackint...ro-for-cheap/5/ ^^practically same hardware config but faster than mine on almost all counts^^ http://lifehacker.com/software/benchmarks/...arks-322866.php http://db.xbench.com/csi.xhtml?machineTypeID=34 Thanks, BTW I've already searched for quite a while looking for speed tweaks and such but haven't found anything notable. As one option I have considered using 1 150GB 10,000 RPM Raptor drive in place of the 2 500GB 7,200RPM Sata drives. From what I understand though, the Mac has seen the two drives in a RAID 0 setup from the beginning b/c even at the original install screen it listed the drives as 1 ~950GB drive so this should be almost exactly equal I would think speed wise as the Raptor would be. If anyone has done a bench test checking the speed difference in a Raptor drive vs raid I would be very interested. A screen shot with detailed xBench, GeekBench and sytem profiler is also attached I've been debating buying 1 10,000RPM Raptor drive but wasn't sure how substantially this would help for the OS but I like having all the space and thought the raid set up would offer close to the same speeds. I would try to go scsi but for the price it just doesn't seem worth it. Any help or config or actually test scores in with different hardware would be greatly appreciated, Thanks a lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KDCane Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Its most likely the disk slowing it down. Honestly do it without the disk test and see the difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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