IT LIVES!

[wthww]

OK, So after I got this cute little IIci, it got me thinking of my poor Quadra 700. It was in pieces, all over the place, and I felt bad. Now, I had been web browsing on the IIci, which is an '030. Now that I have my Q700 together... Damn! The 040 is a huge leap in power... Pages render in no-time in Navigator GOld 3.04, on the '040. Where as on the '030, it was painful. ((If You hadn't guessed, I'm posting form my Q700!))

You know, it just makes me think, MAN, the Q840av must be damn fast.

//wthww

 

[equill]

Beside me are two IIci Macs, both with 80MB of RAM, AsantéFAST NuBus NICs and Radius/Apple 24X and 24AC video cards, and running OS 7.6.1. One has a DayStar '030/50MHz, and the other a DayStar 'LC040/33MHz. Without swapping either HDD from one to the other, because I don't care to do so, because they need different CPU control panels, and because the installations were made with the relevant CPUs in place to get any different software requirements installed on their HDDs, I just ran some crude tests on them with DayStar's Speedometer 4.0.2.

The '030 takes 2'45" to get to the desktop. The '040 takes 1'30". The benchmark mix (10 tests) gives averages of 0.76 and 1.31 relative to a (bog-standard?) Quadra 605. The 8-bit colour benchmarks (both Macs have Portrait Displays at 256-greys) are 0.43 and 0.99.

Without labouring the point further, there seems to be a clear advantage to the '040, even without an FPU, in line with your own observations.

de

 

[Dan 7.1]

yup, its fast. My centris 650 is an awesome machine to use. especially with the caddy-cdrom. its the OG slot-load drive that doesn't suck!

 

[equill]

... The benchmark mix (10 tests) gives averages of 0.76 and 1.31 relative to a (bog-standard?) Quadra 605. The 8-bit colour benchmarks (both Macs have Portrait Displays at 256-greys) are 0.43 and 0.99 ...

A small update on those figures now that I have replaced the 'LC040 with a full '040:

Benchmark mix = 1.67 (Quadra 605 = 1.00)

8-bit colour benchmark = 0.99 (Quadra 605 = 1.00)

FPU benchmarks = 0.99 (In this test, Quadra 650 = 1.00)

de