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cmblanch1

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Feb 3, 2025
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Hi All,

I recently acquired a Nikon Coolscan 5000 ED. I have been running it off an emulated version of 10.4 tiger on my M1 MBP with the OEM installed. It's somewhat of a pain in the ass to do since it seems like I have to watch the software run otherwise it crashes. I would like to setup the G5 2ghz dual core I have lying around as a dedicated scanning rig. Currently it has the default Nvidia 6600, like 2gb of ram, and no hard drive in it. I plan on beefing it up but I wasn't sure how much is too much for that machine. I may slap photoshop on there as well but I plan on doing most of my edits on my MBP. If anyone has gone down this rabbit hole before or has any advice please let me know your thoughts.
 
The two most powerful cards that will work in your model G5 are the Radeon X1900 XT and the NVIDIA Quadro FX4500. I've used both and the Radeon seems more problematic.
 
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