What is a good "stress test" for a G4?

[cbelt3]

Perhaps I'm stating the obvious, but why not run it from your 'main' system drive (Target Disk mode ) and run the app you normally run, and see how it looks and feels ? At the end of the day its performance to you, the user, is all that will really matter.

Benchmarks and other geeky ' tests' attempt to define acceptability based on how the system uses itself. Skip that. Just use it.