17" iMac G5

[Dan 7.1]

I recently came into possession of a 1.6GHz 17" iMac G5 with a 160GB HD and 1GB of RAM, but severe video distortion issues. Opened it up to find the two video power capacitors blown, and two Rubycon 6.3v 2200μF cap's later and boom. effective $10 iMac G5.

I'm probably going to end up getting an external HD for this and using it as my fileserver in place of my old G4 tower.

 

[John8520]

nice! is it the iSight model or an older one?

 

[Dan 7.1]

Its one of the original models from 2004, so pre-isight. Still a nice machine, and its designed better inside than the 20" models of the same era so hopefully this one won't have an explosive PSU lol

 

[tmtomh]

I had one of the pre-iSight iMac G5s (I had the Rev. B low-end model, 1.8GHz, 17", combo drive).

It was a terrific machine. The only thing that bugged me was that it was noisy. It had five fans I believe, and one or two of them would crank up pretty loud whenever the CPU had to to any heavy (or even moderate) work.

But it was a terrific machine overall - fast, stable, compact, and very cool!

And for $10 and a quick repair? Absolutely killer deal!

M

 

[Dan 7.1]

yeah this one has three fans, one for the "generic insides", one for the CPU and a really tiny one for the HD, and the CPU one will get a bit loud if you start to stress the machine. not a big deal though, and compared to my G4 which sounds like a continuous wind tunnel thats fine with me haha.

 

[Cory5412]

Nice! We have a few of these at the high school and they're quite decent machines, especially for the fact that you can pop in any new SATA hard disk really easily.