On 9/7/09 2:01 PM, Ron Romine of [email protected] sent > > > I just got a 1.8Ghz, G5 for $45.00, from a government auction. It's > one of the original G5's with a 900Mhz bus, but it has only 512M of > memory and it's missing its hard drive and graphics card. > > Getting the memory (8 gigs) will be easy, so will the hard drive. I > found the mounting screws for the spare HD hidden inside the case. > Currently, I got the G5 running using an external firewire HD, and a > Radeon 9200 PCI in one of the 100Mhz PCI-X slots. > > Is there anyone selling AGP x8 Pro cards for the G5? OWC appears > sold out. > > Also, would the Radeon PCI card run better in the 133mhz slot? Is > the Radeon currently running at 33Mhz or 66Mhz in its current slot? > > Any suggestions for upgrades? > > - Ron.
A couple, depending on your unit. Both the original G5 1.8GHz and the June 2004 1.8GHz DP operated at 900MHz bus speed; the former had PCI-X slots, the latter had regular PCI slots (operating at 33MHz). Since you mentioned PCI-X I'll presume you lucked into the former unit (a great deal at $45, btw!). Add a PCI-X compatible USB or USB/FW card would be one thing I'd do. See if you can find one that has one USB port internal, then...add a cheap USB Bluetooth adapter to it and you have internal Bluetooth without spending gobs for an original Apple BT adapter card! The second would be to add an audio interface card, a little harder with PCI-X, but can be found (regular PCI there are many options, like an M-Audio 2496 PCI audio card)-anticipate a bit more $$ for PCI-X since everyone has moved on from that design. Might as well add an Airport Extreme card for a few dollars (cheaper than the originals) if you can, though the antennae is a bear to find as well. The original video card was an Nvidia GeForce FX5200/64 Mb - these can be had for a song, easy to find. Though low on RAM they do support Core Image via hardware, so there's something to be had by getting one cheap. The PCI-X model has three full length PCI-X slots, one at 133MHz bus, the other two at 100 MHz (all 3 are 64-bit addressable) - I suspect the 133 MHZ slot is the one closest to the AGP slot. Best wishes, Dana --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
