Just a month ago, I’ve stumbled upon a seller from Carousell for selling 2 units of PowerMac G5. Out of curiosity, I’ve called up the guy (Chris) to pick up the Mac.
https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/specs/powermac_g5_2.0_dp_pci.html
Chris is kind enough to sell me 2 units for RM 450 in total (RM 225 each). The spec is Powermac 7,3 with 2.0 Dual Processor (PowerPC 970fx G5). The rams is a little messy, one came with 2.5Gb and another with 1Gb. GPU is ATI Radeon 9600 AGP.
The design for PowerMac G5 at this period of time seems to have an issue compared to later Mac Pros 2009-2012. The screw for the GPU are not toolless and it’s has no peg to hold it in place while screwing in to casing. There are a few times that the screw has dropped to the rear fan and I have to remove the G5 cover to recover the screw.
I discovered that out of 2 of these PowerMac G5, one of it was actually comes with a couple of issues. The first PowerMac G5 booted right up while the other not. The culprit was actually the faulty graphic card. I took the opportunity to buy a replacement card in Ebay.
The GPU of my choice is a Nvidia 6800 Ultra (AGP). Pop it in to the PowerMac G5 and it runs perfectly. I swapped around my GPU between these 2 PowerMac and also another PowerMac G5 7,2 I bought on another later date. It’s sort of fixed the GPU issue on one of the G5.
The only problem left is that the faulty machine has got missing Audio. I’ve ordered for a replacement speaker and it’s on the way at the moment.
I’ll talk about how do I make use of all of these 14 – 15 years old Mac on future post.
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