So im a long time reader and first time poster on the MacRumors Forums
After owning many Intel based Macs over the last 5 years (all portables) I decided to buy a desktop.
The situation kind of jumped up on me, as a wholesaler who I usally buy PC's from had a PowerMac sitting on the floor, asked him how much, he replied with $250, I ended up taking it home along with a LED Cinema Display.
Specs when I bought it:
Dual 2.0Ghz PowerPC G5
512mb DDR400
NVidia FX5600
160GB Maxtor (Stock)
First thing I noticed when I booted it up: Both CPU's arnt recognised, and if the OS boots with both loaded, within 30m of uptime it will just lock up.
Since i bought it ive upgraded a few things
8GB DDR400
500GB Seagate Front
1000GB Seagate Back
Radion 9600 128mb
Added Airport + Bluetooth.
Fibre Channel Card (For connecting to XServe Array)
Changed the Dud 3.6v Battery
After adding these parts, and installing a fresh copy of 10.5 it seems to run perfectly, im quite impressed considering its a 8 Year old computer and its cost me no more than $400 all together.
So my question is, what is it worth at this point? With the specs it currently has.
After owning many Intel based Macs over the last 5 years (all portables) I decided to buy a desktop.
The situation kind of jumped up on me, as a wholesaler who I usally buy PC's from had a PowerMac sitting on the floor, asked him how much, he replied with $250, I ended up taking it home along with a LED Cinema Display.
Specs when I bought it:
Dual 2.0Ghz PowerPC G5
512mb DDR400
NVidia FX5600
160GB Maxtor (Stock)
First thing I noticed when I booted it up: Both CPU's arnt recognised, and if the OS boots with both loaded, within 30m of uptime it will just lock up.
Since i bought it ive upgraded a few things
8GB DDR400
500GB Seagate Front
1000GB Seagate Back
Radion 9600 128mb
Added Airport + Bluetooth.
Fibre Channel Card (For connecting to XServe Array)
Changed the Dud 3.6v Battery
After adding these parts, and installing a fresh copy of 10.5 it seems to run perfectly, im quite impressed considering its a 8 Year old computer and its cost me no more than $400 all together.
So my question is, what is it worth at this point? With the specs it currently has.