Thank you for another very welcome and useful reply, Hatter.
The hatter wrote:
…Depends on what you will be using it for…
Primaryly to run Photoshop CS4 and VueScan. No plans to step up to CS5 at all.
I've been a satisfied OWC customer for many years, so I'm very familiar with them.
Coincidentally, I'm already running my gear through two APC 1500XS UPS units.
I'd give the G5 a thorough cleaning, inside and out, and write its HD drives to zero.
I'll definitely look into SSDs, especially one for the primary Photoshop scratch disk, though I don't quite follow this part of your answer:
The hatter wrote:
…I'd love to see a better way to power 2-3 SSDs as they consume so little but still use standard SATA power connector (3 would fit in one drive bay otherwise)…
Do you mean you wish there were a better way but there isn't one?
As far as the video card, I'm already running a "mutant" flashed card in my G4 (specifically: nVidia GeForce 7800 GS 425MHz 256 MB). I wonder if I could use that, at least to begin with. I'd like to invest first in RAM to bring the G5 to 16 GB.
I also had a question re SCSI cards, and I started another thread for that:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3237843
Thanks once again.
EDIT: Not sure why my equipment isn't showing, maybe I forgot to ckect the button. Here's the info:
Dual bootable, DP MDD 1.25GHz G4 (2004), maxed out at 2GB of RAM; both Spotlight and Dashboard disabled. Photoshop primary scratch disk on dedicated 160GB internal drive; at least 100GB available on each of the four internal drives, up to 300GB on some. Counting external FW drives just over 1TB of drive space available. nVidia GeForce 7800 GS 425MHz 256 MB "mutant" flashed graphics display card. Processor napping enabled through CHUD 3.5.2.
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