Quote: Originally Posted by Lateralus I'd think twice about this. I had a Dual 1.8GHz G5 with 2GBs of RAM and an X800 XT and Doom III ran like crap at 1024x768 with all the opti…

I was expecting a big performance gain if i had upped the RAM and graphics for Doom 3 but i guess not. Not looking to get jipped. So i'm not going to make the upgrade. Also, to do…

Quote: Originally Posted by pffxmacuzer I was expecting a big performance gain if i had upped the RAM and graphics for Doom 3 but i guess not. Not looking to get jipped. So i'm …

Cool. I will do that. Too bad on the Doom 3. I really wanted to make that game fly on my G5.

I think your real situation is the ram. Most game pauses are caused by paging, Warcraft III even pauses with less than 640MB of ram.

That's what i was looking to find out. Please give me some advice on how much RAM to put in my system if i wanted to have the absoulute best for my model G5. Will 4GB be useless f…

Quote: Originally Posted by pffxmacuzer That's what i was looking to find out. Please give me some advice on how much RAM to put in my system if i wanted to have the absoulute b…

Crazy...I tought it was 4 slotted. I haven't actually looked in the machine yet so i wouldn't even know anyway. Thanks for the heads up. I've been very on/off about selling my G5 …

Just checked on the Apple site. My G5 does hold only 4GB of RAM, not 8. I guess you made a mistake. Would be cool if it did hold 8 though.

The latest version of the dual 2.0 uses the 4-slot motherboard, the earlier ones used the 8-slot motherboard. However, the G5 will recognize 2 GB modules, so the actual RAM limit i…

Here's the results graph that Barefeats got for Doom3 with the X800 (and one overclocked to X850 speed) on a dual 2.5 with 8Gb ram. Not actually very impressive compared to wha…

You're right, not that impressive but still good enough for me too. Pretty cool, i didn't know the 4 slot PM held 8GB of RAM.Can't seem to find 2GB DIMMS nowhere though.

Quote: Originally Posted by pffxmacuzer You're right, not that impressive but still good enough for me too. Pretty cool, i didn't know the 4 slot PM held 8GB of RAM.Can't seem…

Quote: Originally Posted by pffxmacuzer You're right, not that impressive but still good enough for me too. Pretty cool, i didn't know the 4 slot PM held 8GB of RAM.Can't seem…

No prob on the error. Those 2GB DIMMS are pricey indeed. Crucial do seem great. If i get RAM it'll most likely be from them.

I will say that RAM is your best bet, but also there is another option that hasn't been suggested yet. The best upgrade I ever did for my G5 was to get a Raptor 10K RPM HDD. A litt…

Yeah I think a 10k HD as my system drive will probably be my next upgrade... Barefeats to the rescue again.

Great. I'll also take that into consideration. Thanks.

Sorry for the late responde. I'm running a Dual 1.8 G5. I have a ATI 9600 64 Meg, and 2.5 GB of RAM. I play Doom 3 at default setting with no problems on my 20 inch widescreen, wi…

That's great to hear. I just traded off my G5 and 20" Cinema yesterday for another PC though. I never got the money i was expecting to upgrade. Anyway, I like rockin back and forth…

My 9800xt runs it perfect with a dual 2.0 1.5gb ram machine

Cool. What kind of hard drive do you have?

Quote: Originally Posted by R!K but you can't blame Apple for a lazy port as it is rather more compicated than that, with a number of factors involved.. Apple is partly t…

I have a 2x2 G5 with 1.25 GB RAM and a Radeon 9800Pro(retail). It runs Doom3 at PLAYABLE speeds at modest quality settings. That said, it runs everything else more than adequatel…

I always understood that the slowdown in games using OpenGL were directly related to how OSX handles openGL in the OS (something about there being an extra layer that games have to…