G5 2.7 2.3 w/heavy GPU

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silversilver
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
I'm in the market for a new G5 workstation, but funds are somewhat limited. I do mostly multimedia stuff (Photoshop, Flash, some video,...).



What should I do best:

1. buy an off-the-shelf dual 2.7 GHz or

2. buy an 2.3 GHz, but throw an NVidea GeForce 6800 Ultra in it

(Or a Radeon X800 XT.)



Also: does anyone had any (bad) experiences with the fridge-cooler in the 2.5 or 2.7 Ghz models ? Noise, leakage ?...

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  • Reply 1 of 6
    groovergroover Posts: 29member
    I just went through that very same decision and I choose the 2.3 with the 6800 card. I'm getting it in the mail today. Also I read that the liquid cooling systems last about 2 years. That is not what made my decision it was the bigger monitor and more RAM and the Graphics card that lead me to the 2.3.
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    the cool gutthe cool gut Posts: 1,714member
    They are using a new cooling system made by panasonic. But why take on another point of failure? Besides that, your money is better spent on ram and graphics as opposed to a 400 mhz speed bump.
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    splinemodelsplinemodel Posts: 7,311member
    Unless you're going to be using openGL, the video card won't matter too much, i would think. Even so, I can't imagine why you need more than an iMac unless you're working with HD video or extremely high-res photoshop files. Either way, you'll want a lot of RAM more than anything else.
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    wingnutwingnut Posts: 197member
    the X800 XT is better than the 6800, IMO. It's also about $100 cheaper!
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    silversilver Posts: 34member
    Thank you all for the input. I think I'll go for the 2.7 GHz with 2 Gig RAM and buy the X800 XT when the price drops.
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    groovergroover Posts: 29member
    what are you going to do with it I strongly suggest you get the NVIDIA Geforce 6800 card it has a newer version of open GL and newer Pixel Shader.
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