Fastest powermac g4 to run morphOS on?

[commodorejohn]

As crumb said, the fastest you'll probably find is an MDD Power Mac G4 (uses DDR RAM; I read that the G4 doesn't have a DDR-capable bus, but that's still faster than PC133 SDRAM) plus one of the third-party accelerator cards (which go up to 2GHz.) Those, however, can be pretty pricy. You may find it cheaper and easier to get one of the 1.67GHz PowerBooks - I haven't tried much in E-UAE on mine, but in other demanding applications (Flash video) I've found it quite a bit snappier than the 1.25GHz G4 machines.

[commodorejohn]

Okay, from a quick test on my PowerBook, with E-UAE set for an AGA 040 with most-accurate emulation and zero frameskip, Aladdin runs pretty well. I don't have the original as a basis for comparison, but it's smooth enough that I can believe the bottleneck is in the emulated hardware.

[commodorejohn]

If you can get a MDD G4 PowerMac with a 1.8GHz accelerated G4 board in it for a decent price, I would say go for it, but if you have to pay a $200 to $350 premium for that accelerated G4 board, I would suggest doing like I am and getting the stock dual 1.42GHz G4 processor board with the 2mb of L3 cache (which I found for only $50) and if you want more speed, overclock it a bit.

I thought MOS doesn't support multithreading? Not a whole lot of point in getting a dual-processor box if that's the case, unless it's simply to make overclocking easier.

I would like to see a complete list of several different benchmark results for all of the different G4 PowerMac possible combinations and speeds.

GeekBench has a broad variety of user-submitted benchmark results for PPC Macs, don't know if you'll find any results from machines with third-party accelerators, though.

[commodorejohn]

Fair enough, just wanted to make sure I was clear on that.