Two year old G5 2.0 DP

I have a two year old G5 that I use mainly for net surfing and word processing and other fairly simple tasks. I'm planning on getting Adobe CS PS in the future and am wondering if this machine is up to the task of working well on the latest versions of CS and other programs. Should I upgrade to Tiger?
I love the machine and my first Mac lasted a good ten years before I switched to the the G5. In fact, the old 7500 still works great! Is there anything I can do to test this G5's computing ability (without buying big programs) to see how stable it is performing CPU intensive tasks? Thanks in advance.
G5 2.0 DP and Powmac 7500/200 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 23" Cinema Display

Whaaaa? The Dual 2 ghz PowerMac G5 is far from being obsolete!!
You just don't know how to get the best out of the powerhouse you got.
Lookie here
http://homepage.mac.com/hogfish/iMovieTheater24.html
The machine you got is very capable, you do need to upgrade to Tiger, get about 4-4.5 GB of RAM and Photoshop CS 2. You will not need a "scratch disk" for performance as Tiger will over ride CS2's RAM limit. 40% more performance with this configuration.
You'll have to buy iLife '06 with Tiger as it's not included.
I suggest you clone your Panther drive to a blank external drive in addition to backing up your files on DVD's. Visit Carbon Copy Cloner for info how to clone and boot from it (hold option), merely copying files doesn't make a boot drive.
I don't suggest you do a upgrade over Panther, erase with Zero option using Disk Utility, then install Tiger fresh, then software update, then install iLife '06, then update, repair permissions, then install your top used programs from original sources/cd's/Tiger versions, repair permissions in disk utility.
Don't use migration assistant, it's glitchy and copy protection schemes get screwed up.
You might want to consider getting a 74 GB Raptor for a boot drive, it will increase Mac OS X performance greatly. Don't get the RaptorX, the SATA interface hasn't been updated on Mac's to use it correctly and you might lose data one day.
Use a second internal drive to keep most of your user files in new folders so to keep the Raptor less than 50% filled for maximum performance.
Always Disk utility Erase w/Zero option any new drive to rewrtie the bad sector map for greatly improved writes and less corrupted files.
Don't use two large drives in a RAID O for boot or much of anything, because RAID O is twice as easy to go down and you need to clone both drives to a single drive regularly. Since I clone my pair of Raptors regularly, I can play around with the supreme speed (185 MB p/s!!)
Get X-Bench to test your machine, most everything will be around a score of 100 each, except your boot drive which your looking for as much speed in the 4k uncached writes as possible.
Secret: The Dual 2 ghz kicks the new Core Duo 2.16 down, CPU score 100 to 76, why? Core Duos are slow accessing memory. Dual 2 has two memory controlers, two buses and present software is optimized for them. I have run 2 3D games, UT2004 and Doom3 at the same time! (UT2004 in specator mode obviously)
Your machine can kick butt, just need to increase the drive I/O and add more RAM/Tiger.

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