I've tried slapping the monitor and swearing at it.
Here's the gen:
Model Name: Power Mac G5
Model Identifier: PowerMac7,3
Processor Name: PowerPC G5 (2.2)
Processor Speed: 1.8 GHz
Number Of CPUs: 2
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 900 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.1.8f7
It appears I only have 4 slots for memory and they each hold 1Gb.
Is there an add-on to speed things up a bit?
Thanks, as always, for any help.
PowerMac, G5 Leopard 4GB Ram.
Nope.
No processor upgrades, no RAM upgrades.
Only graphics card and hard drives...... and possibly more swearing! 😉
Nope.
No processor upgrades, no RAM upgrades.
Only graphics card and hard drives...... and possibly more swearing! 😉
Graphics Card and Hard Drives?
They are beyond my understanding of electrickery.
Very grateful for the speedy reply - and confirmation of my own thoughts.
Maybe I'll catch up with Technology one day.
Possibly Saturday after the Lottery.
Peter,
There maybe ways to help speed up your G5 that you haven't tried.
What exactly are you having issues with?
How full is your hard drive?
What are trying or attempting to do with your G5?
Wwithout knowing your issues, it's hard to help you.
I Think JapanMac was also being a little sarcastic, too!
Thanks for the replies, Michel.
I've only recently upgraded (from Defunct to Vintage) from G4 to the G5 and started with a clean sheet so I'm pretty sure it's not stuffed up with junk.
However, I was advised on here that I would be able to use iMovie with 4Gb memory but it seems to me that more will be needed for a proper job.
It's not too bad for everyday stuff but I can't see it being up to heavy graphics/moving images.
I am content with JapMac's answer as it corresponded with my own opinion and I think he was writing tongue in cheek.
Thanks for your interest - appreciated!
Steps to speed up G5
1. Get a better graphics card
2. Quit all unnesacary proceses in activity monitor
3. find some speed boosting software
4. Raid 0 two harddrives together
5. Weekely file cleanout
The G5 is perfectaly capable machine I can do complex rendering on a g5 dual 2Ghz g5
The G5 as is will be fine for still image and standard graphics work.
It should run decent with an earlier version of iMovie like iMovie 6, but a better graphics card would help as well as adding additonal RAM.
You can install a Max. of 8 GBs of RAM into your G5.
Here are the specs for the type of RAM your Mac G5 needs.
| 8.0 GB (1.8 GHz+) | |
| Memory Slots | 8 - PC-3200 (1.8 GHz+) 2.5v, unbuffered, 8-byte, nonparity 184-pin DDR SDRAM (matched pairs) |
|---|
You can purchase reliable Mac RAM from online Mac RAM vendors Crucial or OWC (macsales).
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/PowerMac-G5-Memory
Good Luck!
You can install a Max. of 8 GBs of RAM into your G5.
Only if it is the 2003 (original) 1.8 GHz DP PCI-X machine which has 8 slots.
The June 2004 1.8 GHz DP PCI machine only has 4 slots.
If you really want to throw money at the machine, get a min 128 GB SSD drive for OS and applications and install a second drive like a 2 TB Western Digital Black or 2 TB Hitachi 7K for user data and scratch while rendering.
OR, as suggested, setup a RAID. Get a Firmtek PCI controller card that has port multiplication and connect 5 drives to create a RAID 5 array.
Add to the drives a used Geforce 6800 Ultra or Radeon X800XT to give your desktop rendering the maximum OpenGl performance possible.
These are all possibilities, but after spending the required $600-$1000 (or more), you still have the limit of 4 GB RAM and the 1.8 GHz limit, both of which are low and slow for late model software requirements.
And, all that you will gain are a few seconds off the several hour video rendering times WITHOUT full HD support.
I LOVE PPC Macs. THAT should be obvious to everyone. You realize that and I appreciate it.
BUT, as you also realize, you can't realy go faster, only optimize performance .... and that costs money.
Do it fo fun and hobby and have the money, GREAT.
I'm all for it and have several "black hole" projects.
For practicality, less than $1000 builds a blazing fast 3.5 GHz i7, 16 GB 1600MHz RAM, SSD, Radeon HD 6870 equipped machine that will render HD in minutes rather than hours, hours rather than days.....
$600 buys a faster, more capable Mac Mini.....
His model identifier is PowerMac 7.3
So, it has the extra RAM slots.
This model can take the 8 GBs of RAM.
The other 1.8 Ghz model G5 is model ID PowerMac9.1 and this one only takes 4 GBs of RAM.
😉
If you're going to fight with me, get your facts straight.
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/specs/powermac_g5_1.8_dp.html
Powermac 7,2 has 8 slots
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/specs/powermac_g5_1.8_dp_2.htm l
PowerMac 7,3 has 4 slots
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/specs/powermac_g5_1.8_2.html
PowerMac 9,1 is a SINGLE processor model
It appears I only have 4 slots for memory and they each hold 1Gb.
The OP has eyes...... AND posted the profiler info.
MacTracker listed this differently or I interpreted it wrong.
My bad.
The specs I posted on the RAM came from MacTracker.
Cut and pasted the wrong RAM specs.
Again, my bad.
RAID 0 is nice.. but there are caveats with it. Should any one of the OP's hard drives fail and he did NOT make a backup, everything he had will cease to exist. A RAID 0 is a combination of two or more drives in a striped array and it is quite fast.. close to an SSD, though not quite that fast.
Always make a backup of your system if you plan on using a RAID 0.
Thats all, enough ranting.. and Japamac is right: More swearing.. especially if one of the drives in the array dies.
Anything I can do to make my G5 faster?
