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The 1.5 GB/s SATA drive bus is 50% faster than Ultra ATA/100 in the G4. And the G5 is a 64-bit CPU, the first to find its way into a personal computer. The G5 has a Level 1 cache with 64 KB for instructions and 32 KB for data as well as a 512 KB Level 2 cache on the CPU, with no need for Level 3 since the memory bus is so fast.

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The G4 has a 64 KB Level 1 cache and a 256 KB Level 2 as part of the CPU plus a 2 MB Level 3 cache. The top-end G5 clock speed is 40% faster. The dual 2.0 GHz Power Mac G5, Apple’s new top-end model, eclipses that with a score of 1692 – 38% higher than the G4!Ī number of factors contribute to this improvement. That top-end Power Mac G4 achieves a Geekbench 2 score of 1224. This compares favorably with the fastest Power Mac G4 ever, the dual 1.42 GHz FireWire 800 model that had been introduced that January. The first Power Mac G5s arrived in June 2003 with speed ranging from 1.6 to 2.0 GHz. It came five months before that, but that didn’t keep Apple from introducing one last generation of G5 Macs in late 2005. After all, we pretty much assumed the Intel transition wouldn’t take place until June 2006. Now it was poised to follow the road more traveled.Īpple didn’t quit introducing new PowerPC models right away. Apple had long touted the advantages of its PowerPC RISC CPUs against Intel’s x86 architecture. In June 2005, Apple shook the Macintosh world by announcing that it would switch from PowerPC chips to Intel x86 CPUs “within a year”. The ultimate Power Mac was the G5 Quad, which had two 2.5 GHz dual-core CPUs and arrived in October 2005. The first Power Macs arrived on Ma– the Power Mac 6100, 7100, and 8100 running the PowerPC 601 CPU at speeds of 60, 66, and 80 MHz respectively. –it’s sturdy and stable.The PowerPC platform had a long life at Apple. I’ve had the G4 as my regular comp for 8 years. I don’t game, I just use them for uni work. The trick was to insert the RAM from the bottom first (and close the “latch” thing) and then push the top in (and close the “latch” thing) and then give a further push so that you can’t see any of the pins. Reinserting the RAM was difficult as the it needed a fair amount of convincing to get it to sit in the slot correctly. Will buy a 2gb SATA HDD once I have the machine more functional. Still don’t have a SATA HDD (I only have IDE’s) so have been using a boot utility start up disk to see what is happening. which PIN is for the 24v for the inverter? – aword of caution to others – don’t try this when you have been drinking. Though it could have been a combination of the other things I did. REPLACED THE BATTERY (Cr2302) –this last thing seemed to get the machine over the line, that is, to boot. Took out the ram (2* 512mg) and reinserted each one. Once connected The machine would chime and then nothing. The machine had sat idle for 10 months and had had the HDD removed. Had a few teething problems getting the machine to boot. Also have to check over how I wired the ATX extender cable. I’m thinking that the bigger PSU my have more grunt. used your diagram and the machine boots which is great.

not sure everything is wired up correctly as well. the lcd is not working but I am using an external monitor and that is working fine.

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I just hooked up a PC 200watt PSU to my 20″ pre-isight power pc model imac g5. Online people are suggesting that it “works” to grab a 12V line and bring it in to the connector, though possibly improper. The iMac has a very odd ATX style pinout, and further research is needed for proper grounding use. If you grab a 12V wire, it’s good to utilize it’s ground wire instead. 17″ models seem to do ok with the 12V, though would be still putting excessive strain on the inverter board.Įdit: On grounding, It is good to instead use grounding that is on the same rail as what is coming from the power supply. Our G5 20″ prototype machine is really solid right now, except without the voltage up-converter the backlight stutters ever so slightly. There is a -12 V line that some one might try to use with the +12 V line to achieve the 24 Volt difference, THIS IS NOT RECOMMENDED for the backlight inverter. This might bring the total cost in parts to 30 $. What we are looking at is getting an additional 12V->24V 3 amp up-converter.

The big trick (and maybe your not this far yet) is getting a 24 Volt line (for the LCD inverter, Firewire) from an ATX power supply. The 12V can be taken from any wire that is yellow generally. A ground is a ground no matter what, grab one from anywhere that’s not being used.

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