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G5 processor upgrade?
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Looking at this post is it at all possible to load "Snow Leopard" onto a PPC based Mac?
I thought that "Snow Leopard" was only for intel based mac's only?
Where in all the 2 pages before your post is it mentioned that a PPC can run SNOW Leopard???
Nowhere.
And, this is also an old thread, bumping it for what?
What's with the thread necromancy? NO WAY NO, HOW!
NO!
There is no way you can run Snow Leopard on a PPC Mac, there is no PPC code for it to run, it's design for a completely different CPU architecture. The best you can do is run Xslimmer on 10.5, it's basically the same OS.
NO!
There is no way you can run Snow Leopard on a PPC Mac, there is no PPC code for it to run, it's design for a completely different CPU architecture. The best you can do is run Xslimmer on 10.5, it's basically the same OS.
Lets bring the thread up once more, does the Single 1.6GHz G5 significantly quieter then 2.0, 2.3, 2.5 dual?
Any can run quiet provided that it is pretty cool in the room and the coolers are spotless. What I would like to know is if I decided to hunt down a 2ghz G5 cpu and try to upgrade my single 1.8ghz to a single 2ghz if it would work. I have been hunting around and there is like literally 5 posts on the net.
What I have found is that it could boot up but with the cpu in safe mode (running at 1.3ghz) while some seamed to have gotten full clocks. Another suggested that it should work after thermal calibration. So are there any experts who have tried this on their own time or know someone who has?
PM 2004 model
Current specs, single 1.8ghz G5, 5GB total system ram, two sata drives, and a crummy fx5200.
Alive once again!
So I've been thinking about it, and I can get a dual 2.5GHz pair out of a 2004 G5 for $70. And for $80 I can get a new case to fix my current one with a broken leg. I'm willing to do that but I believe I will need a new motherboard due to the bus speeds and whatnot from a early 2005 DP2.0 to work right.
I'm almost tempted to, or for the same $150 I can probably get either a DC2.3 and not have to do any work to it. I could probably spend another $80 on a proper dual 2.5 motherboard, but that's more money to put down when I could probably get a quad instead.
Any ideas to what I shall do? Big ol money pit!
So I've been thinking about it, and I can get a dual 2.5GHz pair out of a 2004 G5 for $70. And for $80 I can get a new case to fix my current one with a broken leg. I'm willing to do that but I believe I will need a new motherboard due to the bus speeds and whatnot from a early 2005 DP2.0 to work right.
I'm almost tempted to, or for the same $150 I can probably get either a DC2.3 and not have to do any work to it. I could probably spend another $80 on a proper dual 2.5 motherboard, but that's more money to put down when I could probably get a quad instead.
Any ideas to what I shall do? Big ol money pit!