Upgrading my G4 MDD with a SONNET Encore/Crescendo MDX G4 Duet 1.8GHz Dual CPU Upgrade

[Irinikus]

That is a nice compendium of computers!

The open source or linux programs seem to be the best options for comparing a variety of different hardware. I had never run blender before, so I went looking. I found a download for the application here (macintosh garden seems dead now?):

download.blender.org/release/Blender2.56beta/

There are lots of example projects available, but this one looks like what you used:?

Thanks!

The version that I used is Blender version 2.60 (The last official PPC version available from Blender.org)

https://download.blender.org/release/Blender2.60/blender-2.60-OSX_10.5_ppc.zip

 

[Irinikus]

I've been trying it out and the build I used is sensitive to the graphics driver/settings, so maybe there is a non-graphical render mode that is better for testing CPU speeds. I figured out that it can use dual CPUs to good effect.

How were you able to verify this? (How did you test for this?)