Starting a new build log / project here
I picked up an old (yet functional) power mac G5
Its a tad beat up externally but sound inside boots to the point of chime but no further - i suspect bad os / hdd as everything else works
The specs at the moment are:
CPU : PowerPC 970fx (G5) x2
RAM : 2 GB (2 x 1GB sticks) PC3200 DDR
HDD : 160 GB original apple HDD, (and a bent sata data pin 250 gb HDD)
GPU : nVidia GeForce FX 5200 Ultra - 64MB vram
It also came with a tc powercore audio card - a type of sound effect card as far as i know - if you know more about it let me know!
Here is the page with what i can find as the stock hardware
https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/specs/powermac_g5_2.0_dp_2.html
A view of the internals without the side perspex or panel, somewhat dusty but not terrible as far as power macs go these days
The top green card is the tc powercore sound card, with the nvidia gpu underneath
Current Goals
-Clean up current parts and case in place
-Get os installed and setup
-Upgrade ram with spare
-GPU upgrade
-Migrate system to ssd boot and large hdd
-Case Swap to stripped, painted and re assembled mint chassis
-Case lighting/mods?
I've got an older g5 with a non working psu, so have some spares to experiment on. I've got more ram to put in already, but not known if working, aiming to reach 8GB, the max it can fit
What would be peoples suggestions to do moving forward with the system? Ive looked at getting a higher end gpu for the agp slot but finding mac specific ones is hard
If people have copies of the lion 10.5 osx that would be very much appreciated due to not having an os yet... either that or gonna try getting a from of Linux , probably a fork of Ubuntu or Debian onto the system