Quad G5; under and overrated

[CoolmaxMini]

I'd be inclined to have apple explain that one to me..I got 90ish and 20ish with a 1TB spinpoint M8..If your content then I'm content.

Their answer was only with Apple branded SSD will the Mini perform better. Still, with SSD as write and read disk, the performance with Photoshop and the rest is exceptional. I didn't pressed further then cause when I saw the performance on the Thunderbolt drives with the Mini, I said ok I can live with that!

 

[GermanyChris]

Their answer was only with Apple branded SSD will the Mini perform better. Still, with SSD as write and read disk, the performance with Photoshop and the rest is exceptional. I didn't pressed further then cause when I saw the performance on the Thunderbolt drives with the Mini, I said ok I can live with that!

You trade space for speed with SSD you're not getting the speed..

Have you had a chat with the OCZ folks? The probably can't do anything but they should be made aware, and who knows maybe they are.

 

[CoolmaxMini]

You trade space for speed with SSD you're not getting the speed..

Have you had a chat with the OCZ folks? The probably can't do anything but they should be made aware, and who knows maybe they are.

No problem with space as I usually offload done projects to my Firewire 800 hard drive or my Gigabit RAID 5 server for archive. Ofcourse a 1Tb Thunderbolt hard drive would be nice. I see several companies are putting out more TB drives, but they are not available until early summer to fall.

I am going to talk to OCZ and see what they have to say about this.

 

[GermanyChris]

No problem with space as I usually offload done projects to my Firewire 800 hard drive or my Gigabit RAID 5 server for archive. Ofcourse a 1Tb Thunderbolt hard drive would be nice. I see several companies are putting out more TB drives, but they are not available until early summer to fall.

I am going to talk to OCZ and see what they have to say about this.

I'm probably the only person left thats cool with OCZ CS...Thats why I bought the G5 I'm typing from I figured it would make a great NAS box..but over the last couple weeks it's turned into my go-to computer..ya know best laid plans and all that..

 

[CoolmaxMini]

I'm probably the only person left thats cool with OCZ CS...Thats why I bought the G5 I'm typing from I figured it would make a great NAS box..but over the last couple weeks it's turned into my go-to computer..ya know best laid plans and all that..

Now I wish I have my PPC again! It seemed the latest security patch for my SL seemed to break Rosetta support. Hopefully fixes this soon.

 

[GermanyChris]

Now I wish I have my PPC again! It seemed the latest security patch for my SL seemed to break Rosetta support. Hopefully fixes this soon.

I don't run anything on the intel's that's Power PC so rosetta is not installed.

 

[Anasebi]

Just my experiences....

I have a lot of Macs... Don't want to think about how much money I have in them for me, my Wife and Children and my work. But I only have 3 PPC Macs, my upgraded G4 Sawtooth (because I really think it is a piece of art with the matching lcd) and my G5 Quads. All of the others are intel and they are great also for everything new and to keep up with the new software and and OS's.

But back to my G5 Quad... I run Leopard and it runs it very nicely (until recently I was still running the phenomenal 10.4). But my G5 (and this is not an exaggeration) heats my entire office if I have it on for a while. I am running it with a flashed 7800 GTX and 16GB RAM. I do a lot of 3D work with Cheetah 3D for my Mac game development on my Quad. I even created most of the content for my first Mac App Store racing game on that G5! But it really does create quite a bit of heat if used heavily.

My Mac Pros that are set up with my racing setups do not create nearly as much heat even when running games for long periods of time. But boy oh boy, when I run them together with the PS3, I can heat the entire office and more in the middle of winter!

Just a sad point (maybe, maybe not?), I just cannot let my PPC Macs go. There is something psychological about them being non-intel that keeps me using them. I have nothing against the intel Macs, but I really enjoy working with PPC. It is definitely some sort of mental hangup for me and the G5 Quad, even with all of its problems, is the absolute pinnacle of PPC for me.

Just a belated point, but I have learned from experience that many flashed videocards cause excess heat due to bad idle habits. My 7800GTX has a very good rom on it, but ofcourse it was bought from one of those specialist with the 550MHZ clocks, I had one before with flashed Quadro rom and it ran allot hotter and a lot slower.