My New Mac 3.0 Quad Seems Kind Of Slow

Hi Everyone,
I've just upgraded from my Mac G5 Dual 2.7 (which I loved) to a new MacPro 3.0 Quad. I'm not finding that the newer machine is any faster (although I have not tested it yet). In fact, Ive even gotten an Audio Engine Dropout error when running Logic on the same songs that ran fine before. Any comments or suggestions? Thanks

Using Migration Assistant to install PPC programs is the most often cause. Did you upgrade or BTO with more than the stock 1GB RAM which would be very "limiting".
Some tests others have done - but there is also more overhead in some apps that try to use more cores, but have to shuffle code and data between cores which is inefficient.
Take a look at today's
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com
http://www.barefeats.com
If you weren't finding the 2.7DP to be slow or limiting, there are applications that will excel with Mac Pro, fewer yet that fully benefit from 8-cores. But running concurrently, yes.
You need to have 4GB in 4 x 1GB with 2GB on each Riser as a minimum though, and to get four-channel (two channel per Riser) 256-bit support. You might be best served with 4 x 2GB if you need 6GB or more. And the Mac Pro can seem more memory hungry than a comparable G5.

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