Heres some speed test results before sleep and after using Speedometer 3.23 (not sure what units those numbers are in but quite a difference):
1.252 before sleep.
0.551 after sleep.
I too ran
Speedometer 3.23 this evening. And I would encourage everyone else who posted benchmarks to report
WHICH VERSION of Speedometer was used because the numbers change a lot among different Speedometer versions. Also note that Speedometer version 4 crashes with a trap error on my 5126 Backlit Portable for reasons unknown.
With a
MacEffects 7MB RAM card installed and with the little /AS jumper wire in place to enable all
7MB of RAM (8MB total RAM), while booted into System 6.0.8 with the version 1.3 "Portable" control panel loaded, I ran Speedometer 3.23 and got this result.
I then put the machine to
SLEEP. Waited a few moments.
Then woke the machine. It's instant on. As soon as I press a key, the LCD comes alive and I can click menus. Very responsive. I then launched Speedometer 3.23 and got pretty much the same score, as follows:
I should mention that
when I measure voltage across axial capacitor C16 (which supports the main 5V rail), I get 5.28v when sleeping and when Shutdown too. Keep in mind I have the
Battery Eliminator. The only way I can get voltage across C16 to drop to 0V is if I yank the Portable's AC Adapter from either the wall or the Battery Eliminator. Voltage measured across C16 drops pretty fast too, especially if the machine is powered. And once it drops to about 8mV or less, I then proceed to do things like disconnect the LCD, remove or add cards, etc. I realize the Battery Eliminator is still charged so I don't touch that until I am ready to put my Portable away, and then I short the 2 pins on it with the included jumper, which slowly drains the super capacitors over the course of an hour or so.
The reason I mention this is because I think someone said earlier in this thread that their voltage dropped to zero during Sleep. Could be it's different on the 5120 non-backlit. Could be you didn't use the Battery Eliminator. Not sure, but my experience on the 5126 shows 5.28V across C16 even during Sleep.
For my next test, I
removed the little /AS jumper wire on the back my MacEffects RAM Card. I did NOT add back the regular jumper which shorts the 2 pins. Neither the MacEffects documentation nor the
@Androda documention mentions this, but when I leave those two pins on back open and not connected to anything, the card is not recognized, and I see 1MB of total RAM at boot time. Not sure if it is acceptable or bad to do that, but it works, and it means I don't need to fully remove the RAM card in order to boot the Mac without the RAM card. Nice.
In that
1MB config, I get the most speed, as you can see:
After sleep/wake, the machine still runs fast (
1MB config):
I then powered off such that the voltage across C16 dropped to 7mV or less, then disconnected and removed my LCD, then I added the little jumper connector across both pins on the back of my MacEffects RAM card, giving me
5MB of total system RAM (including the 1MB of motherboard RAM).
I then tested the CPU again in Speedometer 3.23 while booted into System 6.0.8:
I then put the machine to
Sleep, woke it after a few minutes, then ran Speedometer 3.23 again (
5MB config):
And there you have it.
Oh, and throughout all the testing, I still get the little tick sound from the speaker (and headphones) every 10 seconds because I am using the v1.3 "Portable" control panel. So if there is code triggering that tick sound, well, it's clear that code continues to run even during Speedometer CPU tests.
NOTE: In all the testing above, I booted from a BlueSCSIv2 (Mac Plus code in INI file) that had the
resistor hack applied.
CONCLUSION: A CPU score of 1.894 is 26% slower than 2.566. Therefore, when using a 5126 Backlit Portable, use only 4MB on your RAM card (5MB total) or no RAM card at all (1MB total) to yield the full performance potential of your 16MHz 68000 CPU.