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I am looking into buying a Powermac G5 for 200 dollars. It is in good condition but is lacking a graphics card. The seller said he took it to the genius bar in a apple store and they said that that was the problem.
Here are the specs
Processor Dual 1.8GHz PowerPC G5
Frontside Bus 900MHz Elastic
Cache 512KB on-chip L2 cache per processor
Memory 256MB DDR400 SDRAM
Memory Slots Four DIMM slots (Pairing required)
Hard Drive 80GB 3.5" 7200RPM 1.5Gbps Serial ATA hard drive
1 free bay
Optical Drive 5.25" tray-loading SuperDrive
Graphics and Sound
(dead)Graphics NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra with 64MB DDR SDRAM on an 8x AGP card
Dedicated AGP Pro slot
Monitor Ports ADC port
DVI port
Supports dual monitors
TV In/Out Composite and S-Video outputs (via DVI port and adapter)
Audio In/Out 3.5mm analog and optical digital TOS-Link inputs
3.5mm analog and optical digital TOS-Link outputs
Speakers built-in speaker connectivity
USB Three USB 2.0 ports
FireWire 400 Two, FireWire 800 One
Ethernet 10/100/1000BASE-T ethernet port (with Auto-MDIX)
Modem 56K v.92 modem
AirPort AirPort Extreme ready
Bluetooth Internal Bluetooth module optional Expansion Slots Three 33MHz 64-bit PCI slots
My primary uses are for graphic design and photo editing (Raw Time Photos Portfolio) and I was wondering if this would be a good machine for those purposes. I can pretty much do upgrades to computers myself so replacing the graphics card shouldn't be a problem.
Also what is a good graphics card to upgrade with this machine?
If anyone has any kid of experience with this all please let me know how easy/hard of a process it is, any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Here are the specs
Processor Dual 1.8GHz PowerPC G5
Frontside Bus 900MHz Elastic
Cache 512KB on-chip L2 cache per processor
Memory 256MB DDR400 SDRAM
Memory Slots Four DIMM slots (Pairing required)
Hard Drive 80GB 3.5" 7200RPM 1.5Gbps Serial ATA hard drive
1 free bay
Optical Drive 5.25" tray-loading SuperDrive
Graphics and Sound
(dead)Graphics NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra with 64MB DDR SDRAM on an 8x AGP card
Dedicated AGP Pro slot
Monitor Ports ADC port
DVI port
Supports dual monitors
TV In/Out Composite and S-Video outputs (via DVI port and adapter)
Audio In/Out 3.5mm analog and optical digital TOS-Link inputs
3.5mm analog and optical digital TOS-Link outputs
Speakers built-in speaker connectivity
USB Three USB 2.0 ports
FireWire 400 Two, FireWire 800 One
Ethernet 10/100/1000BASE-T ethernet port (with Auto-MDIX)
Modem 56K v.92 modem
AirPort AirPort Extreme ready
Bluetooth Internal Bluetooth module optional Expansion Slots Three 33MHz 64-bit PCI slots
My primary uses are for graphic design and photo editing (Raw Time Photos Portfolio) and I was wondering if this would be a good machine for those purposes. I can pretty much do upgrades to computers myself so replacing the graphics card shouldn't be a problem.
Also what is a good graphics card to upgrade with this machine?
If anyone has any kid of experience with this all please let me know how easy/hard of a process it is, any feedback would be greatly appreciated.