A very interesting fact is that the Macs were MUCH slower in the Jim Burton benchmark that one would expect. A dual G4 should run circles around a midrange P4, but it doesn't when it comes to P5 rendering. Apparently the Athlon64 is the fastest CPU for Poser renders, especially when it has 1 Mb L2 cache. About RAID0: it is not a complete valid comparison, but my AthlonXP 2700 / 1 GB DDR333 /2xATA100 RAID 0 outperforms my P4 2.8 / 1.5 GB DDR400 Dual Channel /1xATA133. Not only on Poser, also on most other apps. Only games run better on that P4, but that's due to the graphics card, a Radeon 9600Pro is significantly faster than a Ti4200. I suspect the RAID 0 setup is part of the reason that the old AthlonXP rig performs better than the P4. I could break the RAID setup and run it as two separate disks, but then I'd have to reinstall all my stuff. Since I'm using that AthlonXP for a lot of other applications, this would take far too much time. It runs fine, fast and stable as it is (the machine is 2 1/2 years old and it's almost always on). I'm not going to change the machine.

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