I am looking on craigslist and saw a 1.8Ghz Dual G5 Power mac that is about $300. Comes with 160GB HDD. 1GB RAM. I know RAM installs in pairs, but I think this would be a major step up from a 933Mhz QuickSilver.

It's been somewhat of a dream of mine to own a G5, and it's finally come down in price.

What kind of ram can I slap in it? I know it requires PC-3200, which is fine. I have the modules, but do I need specific modules, or will some of my PC ones work. It needs to be non-buffered, non-ecc ram. I think my PC RAM Modules fit that, but I thought if I could, I would max it at 4GB and throw Leopard on it.

Now I know I could just buy a Mac Mini CoreDuo for that price, but i really could care less about another Intel CPU Mac right now. I have a MacBook 2.4Ghz to take care of that.

I just wanted some input. I might try to get him down to $270 depending on the config, as well as maybe trading my QuickSilver + $220 for it.

I have some spare RAM I can get it to 2GB at minimum, or even 3 (2x 1GB, 2x 512MB)

Also, I have a few SATA Drives I can throw in it.

Some people could say it's slow with G5s, but from what I used at the store way back when they came out, I was impressed with it. No lag at all, and it just seemed to be truly awesome.

What kind of upgrades am I looking at. It's a 2004 PowerMac, and takes DDR 1 ram