Re: Saving a G5

2011-12-21 Thread JoeTaxpayer
On Dec 21, 1:39 am, Kris Tilford wrote: > On Dec 20, 2011, at 10:58 PM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: > > > This would add $25/mo to my electric bill (at 15 > > cents the KWH). Which is why when this occurred to me, I set my G4s to > > sleep when left alone for a bit. > > The heat vented from the G5 will o

Re: Saving a G5

2011-12-20 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 20, 2011, at 10:58 PM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: This would add $25/mo to my electric bill (at 15 cents the KWH). Which is why when this occurred to me, I set my G4s to sleep when left alone for a bit. The heat vented from the G5 will off-set some of the heating costs in the winter, so you m

Re: Saving a G5

2011-12-20 Thread JoeTaxpayer
On Dec 20, 9:06 pm, Kris Tilford wrote: > On Dec 20, 2011, at 6:15 PM, JohnV wrote: > These beasts are power hungry, I believe the power supply can be 800w > or greater, the final G5 had a 1 kw power supply I think? from http://support.apple.com/kb/TA27205 - the June 2004 G5 idles at 120W with

Re: Saving a G5

2011-12-20 Thread JohnV
On Dec 20, 2011, at 9:06 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Dec 20, 2011, at 6:15 PM, JohnV wrote: so it seems, on the other hand, if $50-100 keeps this piece of aluminum working hard and out of a trash heap, that's a Win right? I don't know? These beasts are power hungry, I believe the power sup

Re: Saving a G5

2011-12-20 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 20, 2011, at 6:15 PM, JohnV wrote: so it seems, on the other hand, if $50-100 keeps this piece of aluminum working hard and out of a trash heap, that's a Win right? I don't know? These beasts are power hungry, I believe the power supply can be 800w or greater, the final G5 had a 1 k

Re: Saving a G5

2011-12-20 Thread JohnV
On Dec 20, 2011, at 7:12 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Dec 20, 2011, at 4:09 PM, JohnV wrote: I have had confusion telling just WHAT it is, aside from a 2.0 gHz machine with 8 memory slots. It appears likely that it's a Late 2005 since this was the only model of 2.0 GHz G5 to have 8 RAM slo

Re: Saving a G5

2011-12-20 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 20, 2011, at 4:09 PM, JohnV wrote: I have had confusion telling just WHAT it is, aside from a 2.0 gHz machine with 8 memory slots. It appears likely that it's a Late 2005 since this was the only model of 2.0 GHz G5 to have 8 RAM slots. I believe this means you've got a single CPU w

Saving a G5

2011-12-20 Thread JohnV
Trying to save a G5 as affordably as I can. I have had confusion telling just WHAT it is, aside from a 2.0 gHz machine with 8 memory slots. I have borrowed a 1.8gHz model as a swap bed, but a,m not sure of the power supplies are equivalent. Only thing that has shown true is that moving both