I just got my favorite game as a kid finally up and running again on my old PowerMac: Mechwarrior 2! Seems like as good a reason as any to show off some retro battlestations.
> PowerMac G4 (AGP)
> Dual 800 MHz G4
> ATI Radeon 9000
> AirPort Wifi
> OS 9.2.2
Nice. I was wondering about creating a PowerPC thread. I was an user that got hold of 3 G5s but I came to terms I wouldn't utilize them enough and sold all of them to people that said they'd be put to good use.
I just got my favorite game as a kid finally up and running again on my old PowerMac: Mechwarrior 2! Seems like as good a reason as any to show off some retro battlestations.
> PowerMac G4 (AGP)
> Dual 800 MHz G4
> ATI Radeon 9000
> AirPort Wifi
> OS 9.2.2
I picked up a couple G4 (two first gen, one quicksilver 900mhz), the quicksilver looks great but there's nothing I can do with it that I can't do with my desktop, and better
I picked up a couple G4 (two first gen, one quicksilver 900mhz), the quicksilver looks great but there's nothing I can do with it that I can't do with my desktop, and better
Nice. I was wondering about creating a PowerPC thread. I was an user that got hold of 3 G5s but I came to terms I wouldn't utilize them enough and sold all of them to people that said they'd be put to good use.
God that case is fucking slick. I wish Apple would return to that aesthetic.
I picked up a couple G4 (two first gen, one quicksilver 900mhz), the quicksilver looks great but there's nothing I can do with it that I can't do with my desktop, and better
Nice. I was wondering about creating a PowerPC thread. I was an user that got hold of 3 G5s but I came to terms I wouldn't utilize them enough and sold all of them to people that said they'd be put to good use.
God that case is fucking slick. I wish Apple would return to that aesthetic.
I just got my favorite game as a kid finally up and running again on my old PowerMac: Mechwarrior 2! Seems like as good a reason as any to show off some retro battlestations.
> PowerMac G4 (AGP)
> Dual 800 MHz G4
> ATI Radeon 9000
> AirPort Wifi
> OS 9.2.2
Those PowerMac G5s are beastly. Id have picked one up by now except that they dont run OS9, which is where all the nostalgic shit is for me. I always thought it could be a fun project to max out a G5 tower and see how well it would handle modern (but perhaps more casual) tasks like youtube, etc.
>Mechwarrior 2
Exquisite taste
God that case is fucking slick. I wish Apple would return to that aesthetic.
Nice. I was wondering about creating a PowerPC thread. I was an user that got hold of 3 G5s but I came to terms I wouldn't utilize them enough and sold all of them to people that said they'd be put to good use.
I just got my favorite game as a kid finally up and running again on my old PowerMac: Mechwarrior 2! Seems like as good a reason as any to show off some retro battlestations.
> PowerMac G4 (AGP)
> Dual 800 MHz G4
> ATI Radeon 9000
> AirPort Wifi
> OS 9.2.2
>Mechwarrior 2
Exquisite taste
>Mechwarrior 2
Exquisite taste
Nice. I was wondering about creating a PowerPC thread. I was an user that got hold of 3 G5s but I came to terms I wouldn't utilize them enough and sold all of them to people that said they'd be put to good use.
I've been shitting around with decking out a couple PPC machines lately. Two 2.3 GHz G5s, a DC+Quadro FX 4500 dual booting Tiger and Leopard with 8 GiB memory and a 150 GB Raptor and a DP+6800 Ultra with 4 GiB and a 74 GB Raptor that will be dual booting Tiger and something else, not really sure yet. Might just keep it entirely Tiger. Either way, I can finally play Halo without starting a fire. My life is fulfilled.
Also rebuilding a DP 500 MHz G4 for OS 9, was going to dual-boot it with DP4 or 10.0 but the former refuses to install and the latter doesn't seem to do much with the second CPU. I'd rather wait around to see if I can find a nice Digital Audio like what OP has for 10.0 anyway, I guess. Cool to see they work fine with the QuickSilver modules.
I find it to be a pretty nice experience, very quiet and easily some of the best RISC workstations out there, as much as I still very much like my C3000 and SGIs.
Tiger is maximum comfy. I'm sad that the enthusiast development even for old PPC Macs is so dead. I'd love to daily my Powerbook G4 with Tiger.
The Quicksilver module works well enough, though its not quite a direct swap-in: The dual G4 daughterboard has one additional grounding point that the stock daughterboard lacks, so one kind of has to jerry-rig a grounding solution for the dual CPUs. And I lost the L3 cache. Still, seems quite a bit faster faster than a single 466 G4!
Nice. I was wondering about creating a PowerPC thread. I was an user that got hold of 3 G5s but I came to terms I wouldn't utilize them enough and sold all of them to people that said they'd be put to good use.
God that case is fucking slick. I wish Apple would return to that aesthetic.
I just got my favorite game as a kid finally up and running again on my old PowerMac: Mechwarrior 2! Seems like as good a reason as any to show off some retro battlestations.
> PowerMac G4 (AGP)
> Dual 800 MHz G4
> ATI Radeon 9000
> AirPort Wifi
> OS 9.2.2
Tiger is maximum comfy. I'm sad that the enthusiast development even for old PPC Macs is so dead. I'd love to daily my Powerbook G4 with Tiger.
That's kinda why I sold them. I maxed out one and I was a little disappointed on how it performed. I wanted to edit 1080p video and scrubbing and playback was too laggy for me to deal with. It does do YouTube at 360p. Everyone I sold them to wanted to use them for their recording studios. They are apparently still beasts for music applications.
Tiger is maximum comfy. I'm sad that the enthusiast development even for old PPC Macs is so dead. I'd love to daily my Powerbook G4 with Tiger.
The Quicksilver module works well enough, though its not quite a direct swap-in: The dual G4 daughterboard has one additional grounding point that the stock daughterboard lacks, so one kind of has to jerry-rig a grounding solution for the dual CPUs. And I lost the L3 cache. Still, seems quite a bit faster faster than a single 466 G4!
For sure, but it's still more alive than a lot of other platforms at least. I even took my iBook G4 on vacation once, it was alright for general work stuff.
Neat, kind of weird too since the DAs did have a dual-CPU option. You'd think they'd all be provisioned for that especially since I believe it was a BTO option anyway.
Feels to me like you'd need a pretty serious configuration for competent 1080p editing, like an external FC RAID full of some pretty fast drives. Wasn't your best one a 2.3DP?
God that case is fucking slick. I wish Apple would return to that aesthetic.
The Quicksilver module works well enough, though its not quite a direct swap-in: The dual G4 daughterboard has one additional grounding point that the stock daughterboard lacks, so one kind of has to jerry-rig a grounding solution for the dual CPUs. And I lost the L3 cache. Still, seems quite a bit faster faster than a single 466 G4!
That's kinda why I sold them. I maxed out one and I was a little disappointed on how it performed. I wanted to edit 1080p video and scrubbing and playback was too laggy for me to deal with. It does do YouTube at 360p. Everyone I sold them to wanted to use them for their recording studios. They are apparently still beasts for music applications.
Neat, kind of weird too since the DAs did have a dual-CPU option. You'd think they'd all be provisioned for that especially since I believe it was a BTO option anyway.
Feels to me like you'd need a pretty serious configuration for competent 1080p editing, like an external FC RAID full of some pretty fast drives. Wasn't your best one a 2.3DP?
God that case is fucking slick. I wish Apple would return to that aesthetic.
For sure, but it's still more alive than a lot of other platforms at least. I even took my iBook G4 on vacation once, it was alright for general work stuff.
That's kinda why I sold them. I maxed out one and I was a little disappointed on how it performed. I wanted to edit 1080p video and scrubbing and playback was too laggy for me to deal with. It does do YouTube at 360p. Everyone I sold them to wanted to use them for their recording studios. They are apparently still beasts for music applications.
Yeah so I had a 2003 dual processor 2.0ghz. I maxed this out to 8gb because it had 8 slots. Second was a early 2005 dual processor 2.0ghz. should perform the same but slightly more efficient with a 90nm chip instead of 130nm. It only had 4 slots so I couldn't max it out with what I had. Lastly was a late 2005 dual CORE, single processor at 2.3ghz. it can max out 16gb ram but it takes DDR2 and I didn't have any so was stuck at 2gb. I probably should've gave the last one a chance but didn't.
this spamming kike ITT really is butthurt that we aren't talking about the latest macbook isn't he
stupid itoddlers
Neat, kind of weird too since the DAs did have a dual-CPU option. You'd think they'd all be provisioned for that especially since I believe it was a BTO option anyway.
Neat, kind of weird too since the DAs did have a dual-CPU option. You'd think they'd all be provisioned for that especially since I believe it was a BTO option anyway.
You seem to be copy and pasting previous posts as replies?
Yeah so I had a 2003 dual processor 2.0ghz. I maxed this out to 8gb because it had 8 slots. Second was a early 2005 dual processor 2.0ghz. should perform the same but slightly more efficient with a 90nm chip instead of 130nm. It only had 4 slots so I couldn't max it out with what I had. Lastly was a late 2005 dual CORE, single processor at 2.3ghz. it can max out 16gb ram but it takes DDR2 and I didn't have any so was stuck at 2gb. I probably should've gave the last one a chance but didn't.
Feels to me like you'd need a pretty serious configuration for competent 1080p editing, like an external FC RAID full of some pretty fast drives. Wasn't your best one a 2.3DP?
Feels to me like you'd need a pretty serious configuration for competent 1080p editing, like an external FC RAID full of some pretty fast drives. Wasn't your best one a 2.3DP?
Tiger is maximum comfy. I'm sad that the enthusiast development even for old PPC Macs is so dead. I'd love to daily my Powerbook G4 with Tiger.
this spamming kike ITT really is butthurt that we aren't talking about the latest macbook isn't he
stupid itoddlers
You seem to be copy and pasting previous posts as replies?
For sure, but it's still more alive than a lot of other platforms at least. I even took my iBook G4 on vacation once, it was alright for general work stuff.
power PCs are based and predate the itoddler phase
The Quicksilver module works well enough, though its not quite a direct swap-in: The dual G4 daughterboard has one additional grounding point that the stock daughterboard lacks, so one kind of has to jerry-rig a grounding solution for the dual CPUs. And I lost the L3 cache. Still, seems quite a bit faster faster than a single 466 G4!
Feels to me like you'd need a pretty serious configuration for competent 1080p editing, like an external FC RAID full of some pretty fast drives. Wasn't your best one a 2.3DP?
Neat, kind of weird too since the DAs did have a dual-CPU option. You'd think they'd all be provisioned for that especially since I believe it was a BTO option anyway.
power PCs are based and predate the itoddler phase
That's kinda why I sold them. I maxed out one and I was a little disappointed on how it performed. I wanted to edit 1080p video and scrubbing and playback was too laggy for me to deal with. It does do YouTube at 360p. Everyone I sold them to wanted to use them for their recording studios. They are apparently still beasts for music applications.
I think I remember those now, that was a pretty decent haul. I still want a good 2003-era 2.0DP.
The DCs are pretty substantially reworked architecturally, I'd like to think they have better memory performance especially owing to the new DDR2 controller but I haven't really tested my 2.3DP against my DC yet in STREAM or anything else. Whichever the case, G5s in general kind of being in that SD->HD transitional period probably makes them hit or miss. I don't know too much when it comes to video editing.
It's the same mental patient/false flag advertiser that usually spams threads like these with his personal gay fetish porn collection or shitty reddit memes. Guess he finally realized nobody cares how butthurt he is so he's just spamming the thread like we don't have filters and browser extensions that auto-hide his trash. What a fucking loser.
The Quicksilver module works well enough, though its not quite a direct swap-in: The dual G4 daughterboard has one additional grounding point that the stock daughterboard lacks, so one kind of has to jerry-rig a grounding solution for the dual CPUs. And I lost the L3 cache. Still, seems quite a bit faster faster than a single 466 G4!
Neat, kind of weird too since the DAs did have a dual-CPU option. You'd think they'd all be provisioned for that especially since I believe it was a BTO option anyway.
Feels to me like you'd need a pretty serious configuration for competent 1080p editing, like an external FC RAID full of some pretty fast drives. Wasn't your best one a 2.3DP?
For sure, but it's still more alive than a lot of other platforms at least. I even took my iBook G4 on vacation once, it was alright for general work stuff.
That's kinda why I sold them. I maxed out one and I was a little disappointed on how it performed. I wanted to edit 1080p video and scrubbing and playback was too laggy for me to deal with. It does do YouTube at 360p. Everyone I sold them to wanted to use them for their recording studios. They are apparently still beasts for music applications.
I think I remember those now, that was a pretty decent haul. I still want a good 2003-era 2.0DP.
The DCs are pretty substantially reworked architecturally, I'd like to think they have better memory performance especially owing to the new DDR2 controller but I haven't really tested my 2.3DP against my DC yet in STREAM or anything else. Whichever the case, G5s in general kind of being in that SD->HD transitional period probably makes them hit or miss. I don't know too much when it comes to video editing.
It's the same mental patient/false flag advertiser that usually spams threads like these with his personal gay fetish porn collection or shitty reddit memes. Guess he finally realized nobody cares how butthurt he is so he's just spamming the thread like we don't have filters and browser extensions that auto-hide his trash. What a fucking loser.
I find it to be a pretty nice experience, very quiet and easily some of the best RISC workstations out there, as much as I still very much like my C3000 and SGIs.
>Mechwarrior 2
Exquisite taste