8GB of ram in my single 1.8, pretty proud of it! I only ever got ram usage up to 4GB with eyetv 2 caching 2-3 hours of TV for me to watch later.
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Resolved How much RAM do you guys have in your PowerMac G5s? ;)
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6 GB in my DP 2,0. No reason to have that much, but I got that memory for free too (in addition to the machine itself).
LordeOurMother
macrumors 6502
I got a dual 2.3 with a completely fu**ed case for 30 dollars after refund 🙂 it also had 4gb of ram 😀
Altemose
macrumors G3
It is a shame how many of these machines get damaged or destroyed in shipping each year.
bunnspecial
macrumors G3
When I bought my Quicksilver on Ebay, I drove to Indianapolis(2 1/2 hours each way) to pick it up just to avoid the chance of this happening.
Altemose
macrumors G3
That is what shipping insurance is for. You must of really wanted a QuickSilver.
Or the hassle of dealing with insurance and then having to find another QS with the specs you want. I had my first G5 shipped and when it arrived in a sorry state I dropped it back and picked up a replacement personally. That was only an hour's drive but it was free shipping so it did cost me.
I could just tell that every one I had shipped would arrive busted and, sure enough, there was a pile from the ground to the ceiling of broken G5s placed on their sides at the dealer's. Seemed he had to deal constantly with courier claims and did not bat an eyelid when I brought mine back.
bunnspecial
macrumors G3
I actually sat down and did the math...the seller was charging $50 for shipping, and it cost me a little under $40 for the round trip.
Plus, when I got there the seller knocked $5 off the sale price since I was paying cash(no paypal fees and no chance of a chargeback), so all said and done it was actually less expensive and avoided the chance of damage.
That Quicksilver was indeed close to exactly what I wanted, and it has become one of my "workhorse" PPC computers. I don't regret for a minute making the trip to go get it.
Altemose
macrumors G3
That is a shame since I am sure most of those G5s never saw use again.
I always find the QuickSilver to be too slow after using my G5s. Then again, I only have a dual 800 MHz model.
bunnspecial
macrumors G3
The Quicksilver serves two very specific purposes for me, but works very well in those applications and also gets a lot of general use because of the amount of time I spend on it.
The first is that I use it to interface with an old SCSI film/slide scanner. I researched the issue pretty extensively, and apparently there are only a couple of SCSI cards that will work in the PCI-X slots of a G5. The specific cards I found referenced were tough to find and expensive when available. A G4, on the other hand, can use pretty much any $5 SCSI card off Ebay, including the Adaptec branded card that came with the scanner when I bought it.
I'm not a big gamer, but I still enjoy playing older games, and the Mac versions of most of the games I enjoy are OS 9 native. I've had mixed success with many of them in Classic mode(plus my G5s almost exclusively run 10.5), and prefer to run them natively in OS 9. My Quicksilver thus serves as a gaming machine.
Mine is a dual 1ghz, upgraded from a single 800mhz. Mine is also the QS2002 model, which natively recognizes "big" hard drives. I take full advantage of this, and have a both a 250gb and 160gb HDD in it.
I have two MDDs-one a dual 1ghz, and the other a single 1.25(as well as an extra dual 1ghz processor card and heatsink that will probably make it into the single 1.25 one of these days). The MDD is probably overall a better system for these tasks-particularly the scanning-due to its larger amount of memory, faster memory, and faster system bus. My MDDs are both a bit cantankerous, however, so neither has replaced the Quicksilver.
Altemose
macrumors G3
I am debating using my Dual 1.8 GHz G5 or Dual 800 MHz QuickSilver at school for yearbook usage. It will mainly handle Photoshop CS2, GIMP, Image Capture, Dropbox, and Mail. I really am not going to enjoy lugging the G5 up through the school based off its weight. I also have a 1.25 Single MDD but it is not reliable at all.
