Thank you Jason for your comment. I avoided the liquid cooled G5s and found a great deal, about 200 bucks (155 €) for 3 G5s and 3 Cinema displays plus 1 Cinema display power supply. One of them is a humble 1.8 G5 so I will have a scanning station because that one still can use normal PCI cards and will get my old Adaptec SCSI card.
My main machine is a 2 Ghz dual core of the last edition. The 3rd G5 is a 2.3 DP which I keep as a donor for the 1.8 and for other parts. It's not that much faster than my DP MDD but very quiet and has optical audio out so I can use it as a music server without the darn M-Audio Revolution card. I still have some questions: 1. On the Every Mac site they state that the dual core machines don't need a PRAM battery but in the booklet it says that there is a battery inside. 2. Can I use the graphic display card of my G4 MDD in the 1.8 machine as is or do I need the DVI to ADC adapter? I think the reason all my MDDs died was the fact that I used 4 internal HDs and 2 displays of which one sucked a lot of extra power via the ADC connector. That ADC was a bad idea I guess. Thank you for your comments, Best regards, Jörg. Op maandag 12 maart 2018 15:50:56 UTC+1 schreef Jörg Duurkoop: > > Hi, > > My fourth MDD is having power supply problems and I'm tired of buying just > another one and transfer 4 HDs, all my PCI cards, RAM and my 1.25 Ghz DP > card again and waiting for another failing power supply. > > I decided to go for a G5 instead and can get the top model for a good > price. So what changes do I have to make? I can throw away my M-Audio > Revolution card as the G5 has optical audio in and out. I can keep on using > my Samsung digital TV as my monitor, it's already perfectly calibrated and > I'll get a Mac Pro monitor extra. > > I already use two Sata HDs with Tiger in my MDD with adapters so I can > simply transplant them. But I want to keep my legacy SCSI devices like a > nice old Microtec scanner and an old MOD drive so I'll need a PCI-e > SCSI-card. Do you have any suggestions which cards will work with Tiger in > the G5 2.5 Ghz DP quadcore? > > The G5 should be the latest edition so I don't expect any woes with the > liquid cooling system. Any other suggestions anybody? I hope for a smooth > transition. Thank you. > > Best regards, Jörg. > -- -- 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
