G5 dual 2.0ghz 2.5 RAM 160HD on ebay

Hi everyone,
Anyone have an idea what a late 2004 G5 in "as is" condition would go for on ebay. The logic board and power supply are gone. RAM will be removed along with the hard drive. Casing in mint condition.
Thanks

I would not shop for a Mac on eBay without taking serious security precautions. This website discusses the weaknesses of shopping on eBay:
http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/fraudreports/topic1939.html
If you want to know what a used G5 goes for, shop around the used and refurbished websites that I list on my FAQ:
http://www.macmaps.com/usedrefurbished.html
Apple's Special Deals, Macconnection, Macwarehouse, Macresq, SmallDog and PowerMax have a very good reputation. The others I'm not as familiar with.

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Hi,
I have seen a dual 1.8ghz (M9454LL/A) second hand with this spec:
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Machine Model: PowerMac 7,3
CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (2.2)
Number of CPUs: 2
CPU Speed 1.8GHz
L2 cache (per CPU): 512KB
Memory: 1.25 GB
Bus speed: 900MHz
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ATA Bus (DVD): Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-117D
Serial-ATA (hard-drive): Maxtor 80GB
for a good price around £800 which would leave me with money to buy a monitor.
This model already has airport built in and additional ram added.
I am a music producer (running digidesign protools LE) and need a studio computer to see me through the next couple of years. I have been looking at getting a dual 2.0ghz machine but these are invariably more expensive and I would have to pay to add the features this model already has, as well as purchasing a flatscreen.
Basically I want to know how much of a performance difference i will see between a dual 1.8ghz machine and a dual 2.0ghz machine.
cheers guys

Ok that dual 1.8 is not much difference from a dual 2
Your dual 1.8 has a 900 Mhz front-side bus per processor
The dual 2 has 400 more Mhz total in CPU speed (not much really) and a 1000 Mhz frontside bus per processor.
So the difference is minimal.
You could upgrade that video card to a AGP ATI X800 and 3D game all the latest ones with no problem. (I would before they are all gone)
If you get yourself another internal hard drive, something large like a 250-300GB SATA and keep your user files in there instead of on the 80GB Maxtor, your performance "feel" would be pretty good as well. (no Western Digital, they upgraded their SATA specs)
And you got a Superdrive, so you can burn dvds.
If time doesn't equal money, and your not constantly pushing your CPU's day and night, this machine is a good buy IMO. You should get a good 3-4 years out of it, especially if you know when to stop upgrading the OS/apps.
Yes I say you got yourself a good buy there.

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i have a dual 2.0ghz powermac g5, the one with 4 ram
slots. i want to get bluetooth in it and i wish i
would have just had it installed when i first
purchased the computer. Well hindsight being 20/20
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an internal card or anything i just can't find any
howto information. thanks in advance.
Ryan Devine
Hi Ryan
Go to this link. I bought the the few needed bits and installed them in about 20 minutes. It's really that easy! Good luck!
http://tersus.no/bluetooth/
This is where I bought it from.
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Failing that, is there an application like RAM doubler I could use temporarily to get me though this job?
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How is this even close to being possible?!
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ASIDE: On the Dual, in iDVD 6 I find that encoding of the menus and movie content consistent with Compressor: about 1.5 hours per every hour of video.
On the Quad, Compressor encodes an hour of video in less the 40 minutes, but iDVD is taking about 2 hours per hour of video content.
A considerable degradation in performance!
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Thanks
Gary
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G5 dual 2.0Ghz bought in 2003+ 30" cinema display?

Hi all.
I bought the first generation G5 dual 2.0Ghz in 2003 and am sure that I have Radeon 9600 pro video card installed in the computer. Currently, I am thinking of buying 30" cinema display and did some research on it's specification.
I found that Radeon 9600 pro: pc/mac edition is compatible with the monitor, but I am wondering if the 9600 pro version can support the monitor.
If it can't, would anyone like to recommend a good graphic card except 9600 pro:pc/mac edition? Ugrading from original 9600 to 9600-pc/mac edition just sounds like a waste of money because of their similarity of specifications.
Any responce would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks..
KYE

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My research in to graphics card options for 'our' situation is as follows:
Low End: Radeon 9600 Pro Mac & PC Edition [$199]
Mid Range: Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Edition* [$250]
High End: Redeon x800 [$399]
I don't think the Rad9800 can drive more than 2048x1536. This might be satisfactory for you, it's not quite the maximum of 2560x1600, but your menus will be a little bigger at 2048x1536
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Was wondering if anyone can provide some input as to performance issues?
I've read online that some were having issues on various G5's early on..others weren't
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I have some songs with half a dozen audio tracks and 7 or 8 software instruments (external MIDI tracks as well but there's not much required in the way of resources for those) - they all have EQ and often three or four other plug-ins on each track and usually delay or reverb on a bus or two. There's the ability to freeze tracks (i.e. bounce them down to an audio file to limit processor usage - they can be unfrozen if you want to change them) - I really haven't had to use this feature using my G5. I also keep the multiband compressor and a limiter on the main output.
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Jumper Settings for Second SATA-II drive Installed Into Dual 2.0Ghz G5

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Hello! From the Maxtor web site.
"PLEASE NOTE: Unlike standard ATA drives, Serial ATA drives DO NOT require the use of jumpers to configure the drive. Please disregard any references to jumper settings and Master, Slave and Cable Select configurations in the Maxtor Installation Guide."
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Thanks..

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Hi.. I’m fed up with all the hype about the new imac core duo being twice as fast as the imac g5 2.1ghz. A lot of the magazines are also saying yes the core duo beats the g5 at this, that, and the next thing. What I’d like to know is how would the core duo have compared in performance had Apple had put a dual core 2.0ghz g5 in the imac like it done with the power mac range.
Just a thought
Cheers
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I'm curious about this too. In addition to what Gerald says, I note that there's also no mention anywhere of how the new dual core Intel processors perform as compared with, say, the Pentium 4 or whatever number they are at now.
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