IT Called Today

[bunnspecial]

Somehow or another, I have managed a reputation for being a "Mac guy."

In any case, our college(not University) tech support person called me and asked if I could find a use for four G5s. Of course, I said yes-when can I come?

I got back with them a little while ago.

There's a dual 2.7 with a 6800 Ultra, along with three Quads. All three Quads are specified with 4gb and a 7800, although one has a 6600. All also have AP and BT.

As University Property still, they can't leave campus, but I'm still happy to have them sitting in my office 🙂

 

[RedCroissant]

Somehow or another, I have managed a reputation for being a "Mac guy."

In any case, our college(not University) tech support person called me and asked if I could find a use for four G5s. Of course, I said yes-when can I come?

I got back with them a little while ago.

There's a dual 2.7 with a 6800 Ultra, along with three Quads. All three Quads are specified with 4gb and a 7800, although one has a 6600. All also have AP and BT.

As University Property still, they can't leave campus, but I'm still happy to have them sitting in my office 🙂

That's absolutely amazing. I think it's time to make one really awesome Quad running 4 displays, RAIDed HDDs/SSDs...

 

[tevion5]

I'm torn.

I'm so happy for you to get so many sweet G5's, even if you can't haul them home ( just yet 😉 ).

At the same time I feel annoyed that I spent around €200 on a Quad this summer. You americans have life so good. In fairness I did nab a mint condition 1GHz Quicksilver from my own university for keeps in my first semester. But still, free Quads are the best.

Use them wisely. And by that I mean do as many nonsensical hardware upgrades as your credit card will permit.

 

[flyrod]

Your office will be warm this winter! 🙂

 

[Goatllama]

Dang, dude. Have fun with that!

 

[bunnspecial]

Your office will be warm this winter! 🙂

I already leave my(personal) Quad and Mac Pro on 24/7, along with an SGI Octane. The Quad sleeps, but the Mac Pro doesn't(fan control weirdness due to upgrading to 2,1 firmware) and the SGI doesn't really have a low-power sleep mode. I also have a beige G3 with a bunch of power-hungry upgrades(15K drives, Sonnet 1ghz G4) and these aren't capable of "deep sleep" like later Macs. Between those, things already stay on the warmer side. I had one of the new Quads in TDM this afternoon to zero it, and could tell the difference in temperature with it running.

Somehow or another, I suspect that I won't be running all at the same time 🙂

On the other hand, I'm starting to get enough G5s that I could make a dent in replicating System X 🙂 . Only 1,991 to go!

 

[MacCubed]

I already leave my(personal) Quad and Mac Pro on 24/7, along with an SGI Octane. The Quad sleeps, but the Mac Pro doesn't(fan control weirdness due to upgrading to 2,1 firmware) and the SGI doesn't really have a low-power sleep mode. I also have a beige G3 with a bunch of power-hungry upgrades(15K drives, Sonnet 1ghz G4) and these aren't capable of "deep sleep" like later Macs. Between those, things already stay on the warmer side. I had one of the new Quads in TDM this afternoon to zero it, and could tell the difference in temperature with it running.

Somehow or another, I suspect that I won't be running all at the same time 🙂

On the other hand, I'm starting to get enough G5s that I could make a dent in replicating System X 🙂 . Only 1,991 to go!

Talk to @Surrat if you need more!

 

[Surrat]

Talk to @Surrat if you need more!

LOL

Nice score on those macs! Make sure you check that 2.7, I got mine, and it looked mint condition, but under the cpu blocks, it was leaking and fuzzing white rice. I converted it to air cooling.

Speaking of Quads, both mine fail thermal calibration. I even swapped cpu modules between the two Quads, and same thing, cpu exceeded max temperature. Its pretty frustrating. I suppose all four cpu's have bad thermal sensors. I need to run that test on my 2.3dc and see if its ok.