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| man goddam!!!! so many G5s | |
| Posted by: reekdaddy on 2012-05-29 21:56:48 you guys aren't going to believe what i just got for $110 :O :O 2.7ghz G5, no hd, 2.5GB RAM (now 3.5), came with airport extreme and antenna 2ghz G5, no hd, 2GB RAM, came with airport extreme, antenna, unidentified video card w/ DVI + 3x coax, and 4x ultra320 scsi card 1.42ghz DP MDD G4, came with some insane workstation graphics card that is about a mile long, 1.5GB RAM and a dell latitude d620 without charger or hard drive $110!!!!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: i can't get over how much faster that 2.7 is than my 1.8DP G5 8-o edit: before we get into the "why do you want a g5" argument we always have, i use these exclusively for audio production/recording where they are not only a steal for the price/power you get for audio software, but they are undeniably the best machines you can get for proprietary audio gear with drivers written for PowerPC that hasnt been updated in a decade... i'd take a G5 over an atom box any day for audio work | |
| Posted by: TheIanMan85 on 2012-05-29 22:04:00 8-o Holy cow. Awesome deal. Heck, any one of those for that price would have been a good deal. :approve: | |
| Posted by: uniserver on 2012-05-29 23:18:01 was this a CL thing? did this guy owe you some money? was he a friend etc? | |
| Posted by: reekdaddy on 2012-05-29 23:32:53 haha im glad you guys are all just as into this it was CL... i'll copy the posting since links to craigslist posts always die. it was funny, the first reply i got back was "we're trying to get rid of these things if you want to take a few..." Clean Out Your Office is a computer and electronics recycling company. We scrap or resell your old unwanted items for often times no charge and sometimes can work with a revenue share program! Check out our Ebay store JCMPARTS!even though they both say do not boot, when i got there we tested them to turn on and they just showed the  . took them home, put hard drives in them, threw on 10.5.8 and they're great!also i have no idea what's good with these particular G5's but the light that comes on when you turn them on is the brightest red light possible. not the case with my 1.8DP anyone in the MA area might want to go hit them up... they had a couple more G4's and the rest of those G5's when i was there. had a few beige G3's and PowerMacs but nothing I didn't already have. the people that ran the place were very chill. | |
| Posted by: uniserver on 2012-05-29 23:41:50 they both do that? | |
| Posted by: reekdaddy on 2012-05-29 23:46:12 @uniserver - yeah they both did that, but i didn't test any of the others they had out. i'll take a picture tomorrow. it's an AJA Kona LSe !!!!! (the "?audio?" card)  The Kona LSe 12-Bit PCIe Capture Card for Mac from AJA is an excellent choice for your SD capture needs for Mac. The card supports analog S-Video, component and composite video connections as well as standard definition SDI digital video connections. In addition to support for 12-bit uncompressed video, the card delivers broadcast-quality video capture and output. The card is designed for use on the Macintosh platform, making it an excellent choice for Final Cut Pro users.but check this out- The card supports balanced analog, AES/EBU and embedded audio I/O all at 24-bits and 48 kHz. For simplified system integration, the KONA LSe also includes hardware sample-rate conversion for AES inputs. This helps to eliminate difficulties with synchronizing audio and video.RADICAL!! | |
| Posted by: uniserver on 2012-05-30 00:09:10 does the fan speed go to 100%? there is that removable inner clear plastic air dam, at the bottom where the 2 tabs go into the metal and then the top just presses / snaps in... well the rear tab has a sticker on it.. well it should... sometimes that sticker comes off, when it does it makes that red light come on and kicks the fan speeds up a ton. | |
| Posted by: reekdaddy on 2012-05-30 09:47:01 oh interesting... yeah i was wondering why the fans were going so fast so quick. they seemed to come from some sort of professional environment though. | |
| Posted by: uniserver on 2012-05-30 11:01:54 yeah last year i bought a whole pallet of g5's, i learned all their quarks really fast 🙂 people still pay a little for those, i sold most of the pallet for 300 each, a couple really nice ones for 400, i had 14 of them, i think i paid like 75 each… i was lucky, the ones i bought were pretested, and known working, it was funny in that pallet they also threw in for free (3) MDD 1.25 DP powermac's, i sold one for 170.00 the other i sold for 200.00 to my boss here at work. and the other i gave to my dad, well he never used it, so he brought it back to me last night, i'm in the process of installing OS922 on it 🙂 Here at work, we use it every day, it's our web file server, its loaded with large PDF's, they open much faster because it's on our internal 100mbit network… a 50 60 mb pdf comes up much faster, then getting it from or webserver on a 6mbit slow DSL 🙂 | |
| Posted by: reekdaddy on 2012-05-30 13:33:17 that rules! yeah, these machines are still good for something and for how easily you can get a working one under $100 it's insane... i'm putting a big hard drive in the 2.0ghz G5 which one of my friends wants for audio and video production, and i'm going to sell the other 1.8DP to one of my friends who wants it for an older version of adobe CS :approve: i might go back and get some more of their G5s and G4s again... :lol: | |
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