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Quad core Xeon? Doesn't feel as fast as it should
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<blockquote data-quote="CaptSaltyJack" data-source="post: 386893" data-attributes="member: 29975"><p>Maybe the hard drive is bottlenecking stuff. But.. it just doesn't feel as zippy as I had expected.</p><p></p><p>My Athlon64 4400+ dual core WinXP machine loads up Firefox faster than my Mac Pro does! And I'm talking after a fresh reboot (Firefox isn't precached in RAM). On the Mac Pro, I run Firefox after a boot, and the hard disk works & works.. for about 6-8 seconds or so, then it comes up. On a quad core Xeon, I would've expected it to come up in just a couple seconds.</p><p></p><p>What gives? Is there a Java based (platform independent) benchmark app I can run?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CaptSaltyJack, post: 386893, member: 29975"] Maybe the hard drive is bottlenecking stuff. But.. it just doesn't feel as zippy as I had expected. My Athlon64 4400+ dual core WinXP machine loads up Firefox faster than my Mac Pro does! And I'm talking after a fresh reboot (Firefox isn't precached in RAM). On the Mac Pro, I run Firefox after a boot, and the hard disk works & works.. for about 6-8 seconds or so, then it comes up. On a quad core Xeon, I would've expected it to come up in just a couple seconds. What gives? Is there a Java based (platform independent) benchmark app I can run? [/QUOTE]
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