PowerMac G5 Dual 2.3Ghz (Non Dual Core)

[coius]

I went to do a job for a customer at her home office and while doing work she handed me a G5. She was unsure what to do with it. I wasn't sure about the specs and I was kind of apprehensive about taking it (not very fond of G5s). I ended up taking it though. The specs are:

2x 2.3Ghz G5 (PPC970) non dual core

4.5GB DDR-3200 RAM

250GB Maxtor HDD

DVD-+RW DL (Super Drive)

Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB VRAM

Original Power Cable.

That's pretty much it. No airport card, no BT module.

I loaded up 10.5 on a set of WD 80GB Velociraptor drives (10K RPM, SATA II w/ 16MB cache I think) in a striped config (I didn't know OS X booted off SoftSTRIPED drives with Disk utility but it does)

This is the model with PCI-X and AGP 8x Pro still, So no PCI-E expansion and no PCI-E graphics. Boo!

It's also not water cooled so I don't have to worry about that.

Anyone know if an older final cut pro would still be usable on this system as a decent older editing system for video? or if I should just forget it?

 

[TheEisenfaust]

I've got a copy of Final Cust Pro 4 (last PPC version) that you can use, just stop by my place sometime to install it. BTW you still owe me for trashing my video card on my G5 lol.

 

[MinerAl]

Are you guys both in Omaha?

I've been in KC for 10 years but I spent my 20s in Omaha. Still have lots of family and friends there.

Next time I'm up maybe we can have a swap meet.

 

[Hrududu]

Final Cut Pro 7 (from Final Cut Studio 3) actually works just fine on the G5 even though Apple sold it as Intel only. Its actually a universal binary and I have it installed on my Quad G5 and on my dual 2.0GHz model before that. It'll run on yours since you have the 9600 with 128MB of RAM.

 

[TheEisenfaust]

@MinerAl Yeah we are both in Omaha. Heck, I live just a few blocks from his old digs lol.

 

[coius]

Thanks TheEisenfaust.

I will probably be by my old haunt next monday (got parts coming in). I will stop by to get it.

Anyways, Hrududu, how was the performance on your dual 2.0? I just thought I would ask you since you have a better idea of the performance on a dual 2.3 than anyone else. I know FCP X doesn't do the best on a MacBook, although it performs decently on my Ivy-Bridge mac *cough*

It would be interesting to see how it's gonna work...