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Krusty · Nov 19, 2003, 10:19 PM

Heck .. I don't even own a G5. I'm just curious if anyone has maxed theirs out. How about 4 gigs ? Anyone using even that much in their machine ??

SamuraiDL · Nov 19, 2003, 10:28 PM

1.5 in mine, seems to be sufficient for the time being.

-Q- · Nov 19, 2003, 10:29 PM

Not yet.

I imagine that I will someday. I do a lot of freelance graphics and video work and outside of hard drive space, RAM is my next best friend. Right now I have 1.5 GB and if the chips start getting closer to US$50 a chip, I'll look at upgrading to more.

jasonsRX7 · Nov 19, 2003, 10:42 PM

2gb in my 1.6 G5. Maxing it out at 4gb would cost almost as much as the system. That's the one thing I wish I had more of, was ram slots.

aaanorton · Nov 19, 2003, 10:50 PM

3.5 GB in 3 different 2x2s. 18 512 MB modules, all from Crucial, not a bad one yet.

///Milien · Nov 20, 2003, 12:09 AM

Ask and you shall receive.

4GB RAM - Centon Gemini RAM - 8 x 512MB

///Milien · Nov 20, 2003, 12:10 AM

If anyone is interested in buying 1 GB RAM (Apple OEM - 4 x 256BM) please PM me.

Tetsuo · Nov 20, 2003, 02:01 AM

Originally posted by ///Milien:
Ask and you shall receive.

4GB RAM - Centon Gemini RAM - 8 x 512MB

Wow! I could never imagine having that much ram, the most I've ever had is 1.25

TiDual · Nov 20, 2003, 05:03 AM

Like several above, I've got 1.5GB for now. Hoping the 1GB chips will eventually be cheap enough so I can go straight to 8GB (and don't want to have too much invested in 512 chips now).

Peter · Nov 20, 2003, 08:24 AM

I am sure some people have 8Gb. Come out ye wussies!

sideus · Nov 20, 2003, 09:29 AM

Landos Mustache · Nov 20, 2003, 01:16 PM

I have 1.5, I would get more but Photoshop doesn't support more then 2 gigs so I don't see much of a point.

fromthecloud · Nov 20, 2003, 01:17 PM

Originally posted by sideus:

Ummmm....wow.

Leonard · Nov 20, 2003, 04:52 PM

14GB? There are only 8 slots... that means you'd have to use 2GB RAM sticks - 6x2GB + 2x1GB. Do 2GB RAM sticks even exist?

Lateralus · Nov 20, 2003, 05:55 PM

Originally posted by Leonard:
Do 2GB RAM sticks even exist?

Yepp...

Eug · Nov 20, 2003, 06:04 PM

Bill Joy, Sun's ex-chief scientist, has a dual G5 Power Mac with 8 GB RAM.

Originally posted by Landos Mustache:
I have 1.5, I would get more but Photoshop doesn't support more then 2 gigs so I don't see much of a point.

It's 2 GBs, but if you run iTunes, Safari, InDesign, etc. at the same time as Photoshop, it's gonna make a huge difference to have more RAM. Well, it will if you have large several hundred MB files. 1.5 GB is not enough.

And another 2x512 would be cheap. That would give you 2.5 GB, and you'd still have another 2 memory slots left over for another 2x512 in the future if you decide you need it.

Xtraz · Nov 20, 2003, 06:06 PM

Originally posted by sideus:

Surely you could've taken more time and actually left-align the 1.8 Ghz and the 14 GB texts.

Xtraz · Nov 20, 2003, 06:10 PM

oh and funny how you were looking at the endoftheworld.swf
I just watched it this morning.

billybob128 · Nov 20, 2003, 06:35 PM

Surely you could've taken more time and actually left-align the 1.8 Ghz and the 14 GB texts

and i checked it against my own about guess wat the size of the thing is wrong it is too long downwards and as that would be a pointless GUI mod...

MikeyMoves · Nov 21, 2003, 03:47 PM

Your G5's have nothing on me......

alligator · Nov 22, 2003, 10:13 PM

Photoshop is supposed to USE RAM, not MAKE RAM.

MindFad · Nov 22, 2003, 10:27 PM

LegendaryPinkOx · Nov 23, 2003, 12:22 AM

I thought that comment was more smooth.

Cipher13 · Nov 23, 2003, 02:49 AM

Photochop or not, the G5 can take 16GB...