Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 711 from 2004/2/10
Quote:
Cego wrote:
The issues with the G5 don't stop at the CPU. When the power supply dies, you have no chance of repairing it, let alone the amount of work to deconstruct the machine. The G5's are a waste of time, money (power consumption) and health (lifting that piece of metal is not the best execercise for our back).
I haven't seen any dead Pegasos mainboards. Some people fried their CPU cards due to overclocking and wrong cooling. But if you maintain the machine on a regular basis (which is pretty easy), there should be no issues. Too bad there are no custom CPU modules with 7447A CPUs at higher clockrates available. Even with the limited RAM speed, a higher clocked CPU would increase the speed of applications like Wayfarer a lot.
I would just buy another one and move the cpu and drive over and call it a day... Agreed they are the 3000T's of powermacs with all the back joy in that (just moved my 3000 tower 2 hours ago, lol). I have never tested a Peg II against the PCIe PowerMac. I have to believe the speed differential is pretty great, so for me it is totally worth it to own one. To date I have never seen a single processor PCIe PM fail, so I suspect they will be pretty reliable going forward.
Peg II's were a huge issue early on with the cpu coolers. I lost 2 cpus because of that defect. The last cpu card I received from BBRV had a corrected heatsink mount and it worked perfectly. Minus the CPU, the Peg II's were simply awesome...
[ Edited by matt3 23.08.2024 - 13:05 ]
