Cinebench and Xbench Scoring
My aim was to beat the 200 barrier in Xbench 1.1.3. Those of you that have seen the earlier benchmarks at 1.58GHz will know that I managed it, but what about the permanent 1.50GHz configuration - could it still be nudged over the edge?
Woo! You can see the results for yourself in the Xbench Database. Because I discovered Xbench early on when I got my Mac, you can even see how things have progressed over the years - we started back in 2003 at 147.39...
Not only that, but we've managed a replicable sub-100 second score for the rendering on Cinebench - 99.9! Not as speedy as the 94.9 recorded at 1.58GHz, but thoroughly respectable, particularly for a 2003 vintage machine. Interestingly it's pretty much on a par with the 3GHz Pentium I use at work, which is only 6 months old (at time of writing).
Recommendations
After all this I'm sure there are a lot of people thinking 'this guy is mad, this is complete overkill, he should get out more'. After doing it, I'd say you're probably right. Although this had only been an on-and-off project between a lot of other work, it had ended up taking a fair bit longer than I had anticipated. However, if you are wanting to cool an MDD G4 with an 80mm fan, this is probably the best way to do it without taking pointy tools to your case. And because of this site, you won't need to waste so much time finding which bits work best!Would I recommend it? Well, I would say yes if you have a single processor G4 - especially an overclocked single processor. If you have dual processors and aren't afraid of pointy tools, I think you should take a look at Part 2. Part 2 is very highly recommended.