Re: In the Market for a G5, maybe ...

2012-12-27 Thread R. W. Smith
I have been using a G5 Quad Core with later cooling system fix for a year and no problems. I am using Protools with SSD and FireWire drives. I think it's an amazing inexpensive tool. Cheers, R. W. Smith On Dec 17, 2012, at 6:51 PM, Valter Prahlad valter.prah...@fastwebnet.it wrote: Il

Re: In the Market for a G5, maybe ...

2012-12-27 Thread JohnV
not hardly specific to teh G5 quads, but I think all these suffer from the dread Capacitor Plague form the period they were manufactured... while it's a singular cause (really bad quality power suppky capacitoers from a specific vendorfor severakl years) the SYMPTOMS, as some/all/none of

In the Market for a G5, maybe ...

2012-12-17 Thread Bill Connelly
A friend suggested I upgrade to a G5 tower, after my G4 QS 2002's cpu went bad ... I'm doing mostly involved photography processing in the HDR area now ... so speed is a good thing. All my applications are 32bit style coding ... will I run into any problems with G5s in general? What

Re: In the Market for a G5, maybe ...

2012-12-17 Thread Cameron Kaiser
I'm doing mostly involved photography processing in the HDR area now ... so speed is a good thing. All my applications are 32bit style coding ... will I run into any problems with G5s in general? No. I even compile TenFourFox in 32-bit mode for G5s because it has Carbon dependencies.

Re: In the Market for a G5, maybe ...

2012-12-17 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Dec 17, 2012, at 6:28 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: What about the cooling systems ... didn't some of them have problems with the liquid cooling idea? I have a number of PCI cards that are still good ... what ideas do you have here? I may just wait for a QS Dual 1GHz cpu to appear, and

Re: In the Market for a G5, maybe ...

2012-12-17 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 17/12/12 13:24, Bill Connelly ha scritto: A friend suggested I upgrade to a G5 tower, after my G4 QS 2002's cpu went bad ... Suggestions on which ones in the G5 family (and others) to consider are welcomed. Not too fat in the wallet ... I'm currently using a G5 DP 2.7 GHz, I got