[Irinikus]

A little demonstration of the Onyx2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRAnFs4_3qY&t=38s

[gijoe77]

I was sorting hoping for more "umph" from a 500mhz IR3 onyx...

[Irinikus]

I was sorting hoping for more "umph" from a 500mhz IR3 onyx...

I have to say that it kind of disappointed me as well! :( (I expected much better multi-tasking capability.)

It seems to have allot of grunt when focusing on a single task, but it's performance degrades rapidly as multiple instances of programmes are opened.

I'll have to test it with a program such as Quake3 in the future to see how it performs with a single intensive task.

[bkd]

You are right. Unfortunately even IR performs multitasking not nearly as good as latest ODYSSEY revisions (which SGI especially otimized for such kind of work).

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I was sorting hoping for more "umph" from a 500mhz IR3 onyx...

I'll have to test it with a program such as Quake3 in the future to see how it performs with a single intensive task.

Better try SPEC's viewperf (6.1.2 & 7.1). It provides MUCH more load for graphics subsystem than Q3.

[digitalIRIX]

Hey great video. May I ask the name/artist of the first music track in your video. P.S. Nice B&W speakers!

[Irinikus]

Hey great video. May I ask the name/artist of the first music track in your video. P.S. Nice B&W speakers!

Thanks!

The soundtrack is a jingle called "mastermind" from iMovie.

[digitalIRIX]

Thanks for that. I'll check it out!