110 with XBench on a Mac Pro?
September 5th, 2009
At my work the Web Designer have a Mac Pro (4×2.66Ghz/2GB/320GB original model), and this Mac Pro is all but Pro with so little memory, too much system extensions, and the Apple’s 320GB crappy hard-drive. It’s score is 110 on XBench! Far lower than an actual Mac Mini!
I just upgraded the system to Snow Leopard, drop 2 hard-drives (1TB 7200rpm SATA-3), cvreating a splitted raid (RAID-0) and magically it goes now over 180 on XBench!
Faster startup, everything more smooth and reactive, even with 2GB it’s no more the same crapy thing. It just deserve a better graphic card than the slower-than-integrated 7300GT (a good GeForce 8800 for example), and 4GB or 8GB more, and it will be a real fast computer even if it’s 3 years old 
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