if you have a 800mhz fsb that leads me to guess you are talking about a pentium 4 cpu
which is notorious for being more power hungry, and hot requiring lots of cooling..
i would reccomend selling off the p4 cpu + motherboard for $10 .. and as diehard once said.. 'buy yourself a sandwhich' lol
if u want to explore the pc side of things u can check out my forum
www.oldschooldaw.com things on this site are to be kept centered on mac os 9 / powerpc
while the mac os 9 ppc cpu isnt going to be stronger in cpu power its the software
that we appreciate most that was written exclusively for it.. and thats why we see benefit in it (if i was to speak for all)
but yes, to make the most of your current hardware i would reccomend getting a socket 775 intel core cpu and rebuilding the machine
with a socket 775 motherboard (perhaps asus, intel, gigabyte motherboard) or you might keep whatever peripherals from your p4 system
and buy a powerpc g4 quicksilver or mdd and move your drives + whatever otehr hardware that is compatible over to be used with the mac
cannibalizing the pc so to speak:D
ah i see now u put p4 int he topic so u must be well aware.
to your original question.. is the g5 faster then the p4?
i can show u some of my own benchmarks linked on my signature... if u click this geekbench link and then click "Geekbench2" tab
2211609 Power Mac G5 PowerPC G5 (970) 1800 1 Mac OS X PPC 32 1163
2450597 Power Mac G5 1.8ghz (2003) PowerPC G5 (970) 1800 1 Mac OS X PPC 64 1116
2450612 Asus P5S800-VM (2006) Intel Pentium 4 531/630 3152 1 Windows x86 32 1090
2450943 Power Mac G5 1.8ghz (2003) PowerPC G5 (970) 1800 1 Mac OS X PPC 32 1080
2450452 Asus P4B533 (2002) Intel Pentium 4 2.40GHz 2433 1 Windows x86 32 1022
these are some of my own results.. as u can see the speeds are in the same neighbourhood + comparable... and these are from some machines that are pretty normal.. the g5 that i have is the single 1.8ghz 2003 g5 - also notice that the g5 is at 1.8ghz and the p4 is at 2.4 + 3.0 ghz and the benchmark results are still comparible.. if the g5 was rated atthe same mhz speed it would undoubtedly kick the crap out of the p4.. maybe i could find some results of the last generation desktop g5s (970MP cpu type) vs the last generation p4s (Cedar mill?)
other things to note tho the g5 machines are notorious for unexplained freezes + hangs.. + problems with both water + air cooling.. i think the best buy for music is the FX series 2004 models
which are i think less likely to have these cooling problems and issues with freezes and they are compatible with pci hardware still whereas the 2005 MP series g5's are not compatible with pci hardware and feature pci-express slots.. i dont think u mentioned which audio io u were using so i cant say for sure. but.. i cant say i reccomend a g5... if i had no computer + lost all my own current stuff first thing i would do is buy a g4 MDD... and also a good intel powered pc or mac.. anything from 2008 + will do just great
the g5 cpus generations are:
970 (2003), 970FX (2004), 970MP (2005), 970GX (2006)
so its the first generation g5..
remember tho, u can't run mac os 9 on a g5 for any real music purposes you would have to run panther or tiger on that machine.
so im sure if you wanted to partake of the fruits of this site.. u would want to focus on a real powerpc g4 machine
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