Cubase 1.x In G5 Environment - The Real Life, Trying to find out how G5 actually does Options

[FoFlow]

Hi,

New here, just registered. The thing is that I've wanted a MAC for a while now, but the G4s didn't appeal as they were at the end of the life cycle. Now that the G5 is out and I've been able to touch one (grin) I'm convinced that I MUST get one. But... How do they handle themselves? If any of you guys out there have a G5 (any version) and have Cubase 1.x, could you please run this test

- Create 4 A1 synths (with obersweep preset)
- Add insert EFX Reverb A to every A1 and then
- Add another Reverb A to the instrument
- repeate adding Reverb As to each A1 until you reach the critical 80-90% performance limit

What I found out was that my Athlon computer handled
- 4 A1 with obersweep with 5 Reverb As each.
- Performance meter was somewhere around 80%

(Disclaimer; I had quite many background processes going while doing this test so the actual performance should be a bit better). The audio settings were 48Khz and 24bit (using SB Audigy 2 Platinum EX that means that the actual input is 16bit and Cubase translates that to 24bit - which again might hurt the performance).

But to get the feeling how the G5 could stack up against this athlon (XP2100+, 512MB 333DDR) I'd appreciate _very_ much. Don't make it lean and mean, just please run this simple test...