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Whats upgradable and whats not

HeyMAC

HeyMAC

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Im planning on buying a 17" 1.8 ghz imac g5 for school,music,photos,web design,flash. My basic question is what is upgradable and whats not on the 1.8?
 
From http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86812

Think you need a new part? You can replace many of your iMac G5's parts yourself.

The iMac G5 is designed to make it easy for you to install replacement parts if you need to. The parts you can install yourself are:

AirPort Extreme Card
Memory - DDR 400 MHz (PC3200) SDRAM
Hard drive
Optical drive
Power supply
LCD display
Modem card
Mid-plane assembly (contains the main logic board, the G5 processor, fans, NVIDIA graphics processor, and so forth).
 
I think third party products will make upgrades for the imac G5. Like a logic board with a better GPU built in like the 5200 is. They might also make CPU upgrades. But, only time will tell.
 
quagmire said:
I think third party products will make upgrades for the imac G5. Like a logic board with a better GPU built in like the 5200 is. They might also make CPU upgrades. But, only time will tell.
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Considering the CPU/GPU/etc would have to be exact drop in replacements -- It's possible, and been done before for CPUs though I don't know if it would be worthwhile for a GPU.

Considering people still haven't overclocked a G5 yet, and 3rd parties really haven't started cranking out PPC970 machines yet -- it is probably something that's a ways away (since the new processors would have to be cooler than the old one, which takes awhile to do -- a year in Motorola's case.)
 
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