How much memory is 'enough'?

[colt .45]

[blazer]

That's cool I thought you meant a 20% increase in performance. So you gained about 15 points with XBench. I wonder how much your gain will be with a 7200 drive a 1GB memory!
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1.42GHz Mac mini
2.0GHz Core 2 Duo Mac mini
2.0GHz Core 2 Duo Mac mini (2009)
2.5GHz Core i5 Mac mini (2011)
24" Dell LCD & 42" Sharp TV
EyeTV 250 Plus
1G, 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G iPod nanos
16GB 3G iPhone

[n2o2]

On my 1.42/80G Mini I boot from an external firewire 7200rpm/8Mb cache harddrive and installed 1Gb RAM last week. My score Xbench score is 123.07.
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MAC MINI/1.42/1GB/100G/SD/AP/BT/N

[blazer]

[JahTS]

New score with 10.4.1 with nothing running.
Results 123.95
System Info
Xbench Version 1.1.3
System Version 10.4.1 (8B15)
Physical RAM 512 MB
Model PowerMac10,1
Processor PowerPC G4 @ 1.42 GHz
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 512K @ 1.42 GHz
Bus Frequency 167 MHz
Video Card ATY,RV280
Drive Type TOSHIBA MK8025GAS
CPU Test 170.70
GCD Loop 159.01 6.21 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 173.98 629.19 Mflop/sec
AltiVec Basic 171.77 4.99 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 175.68 2.73 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 174.18 6.97 Mops/sec
Thread Test 126.41
Computation 90.41 1.22 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 210.09 2.64 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 135.21
System 151.15
Allocate 788.05 514.05 Kalloc/sec
Fill 204.77 1629.97 MB/sec
Copy 73.02 365.08 MB/sec
Stream 122.31
Copy 115.87 847.03 MB/sec [altivec]
Scale 118.50 874.51 MB/sec [altivec]
Add 128.89 824.93 MB/sec [altivec]
Triad 126.95 775.68 MB/sec [altivec]
Quartz Graphics Test 142.24
Line 112.54 2.86 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 113.24 7.97 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 127.96 2.95 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 164.51 1.79 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 282.38 4.60 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 133.34
Spinning Squares 133.34 93.31 frames/sec
User Interface Test 230.27
Elements 230.27 74.06 refresh/sec
Disk Test 60.84
Sequential 69.80
Uncached Write 72.67 30.29 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 50.32 20.60 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 150.19 23.78 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 58.78 23.75 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 53.92
Uncached Write 46.09 0.69 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 52.43 11.82 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 59.03 0.39 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 60.68 12.49 MB/sec [256K blocks]