Steven, from your description and near as I can tell (from MacTracker [1]) you have the June 2004 dual 2.5 GHz PowerMac 7,3.
If you have that machine, yes, you can only put up to 1 GB in each of the eight slots. Those 1 GB DIMMS are only about $44 for a matched pair on OWC right now. [2] The OS you can put on that might make a difference, too. The G4s you are comparing it to are probably running some version of 10.4 (Tiger), while your G5 can run all the way up to 10.5.8 (Leopard). It is commonly acknowledged that Tiger was a much leaner and meaner OS than Leopard for older, less powerful machines. Tiger even ran pretty well on G3 iMacs. If you are trying to run Leopard on it, that may be the reason why it's feels slow to you. That said, 5 GB of RAM sounds pretty adequate to me. Another way to speed it up is to wipe the drive and reinstall a fresh system. Not fun, and very time-consuming to get everything back to normal, but in the long run quite worth the hours it takes to reload and reconfigure it. Another thing that would bring it back to life is to put an SSD [3] in it. You could get a small one and just put the OS and key apps on it and then put the rest of your stuff on the original hard drive. This will make it a lot faster. The aforementioned OWC has 30 GB SATA SSD drives for about $50[4]. Lots you can still do to keep that puppy chuggin' along! j. [1] http://mactracker.ca [2] http://macsales.com [3] Solid State Drive [4] http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/internal_storage/SSD/Mercury_Electra_3G_Solid_State On Jan 30, 2013, at 8:31 PM, Steven Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Steven Brown <[email protected]> > Subject: [MacGroup] G5 Help Memory Configuration? > Date: January 30, 2013 12:34:20 PM EST > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Reply-To: Steven Brown <[email protected]>, Topics related to Apple and > Macintosh computers <[email protected]> > > > I need help with my G5 memory configuration: > > I have a G5 with 5 Gigs of memory in it. > > It is the 2.5 Ghz with the 8 gig configuration. > > Looking at the memory banks from the front of the machine with it lying on > its side the memory is installed as follows all are 3200, 400 dimms. > > Left side is: 512, 512, 512 and 1 gig. > On the right side is just the opposite: 1gig, 512, 512, and 512. > > Both 1 gig dimms are facing each other in the middle on opposite banks. > > But in system profiler they show up as the following: > > Dimm0/J11 1gig > Dimm1/j12 1gig > Dimm2/j13 512 > Dimm3/j14 512 > > Dimm4/j41 512 > Dimm5/j42 512 > Dimm6/j43 512 > Dimm7/j44 512 > > For it to be a faster machine it seems slower than the G4s and one of them is > a DP 867 with less memory only 1.5. > > It says to install the memory in pairs but I can not afford to get 1 gig > dimms at the present time. > > Should I reconfigure it another way? > > With the 1 gig Dimms on opposite banks why do they show up as Dimm 0 and 1 > and J11 and J12? > > Any help appreciated! > > In the meantime I will go back and read up on it again. > > Thanks > > Steve Brown -- Jonathan Fletcher FileMaker 9/10/11/12 Certified Developer Fletcher Data Consulting [email protected] http://www.fletcherdata.com 502-509-7137 Personal Blog o'Stuff: http://jfletch.posterous.com Kentuckiana's FileMaker Developers Group Next meeting: Tuesday, February 26th, noon to 3:30-ish http://www.kyfmp.com
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