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DDR2, RAM,
Two CPU's, about this mac says;
Machine Name: Power Mac G5
Machine Model: PowerMac11,2
CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (1.1)
Number Of CPUs: 2
CPU Speed: 2.3 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB
Memory: 4.5 GB
Bus Speed: 1.15 GHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.2.7f1
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[quote roshi]DDR2, RAM,
Two CPU's, about this mac says;
Machine Name: Power Mac G5
Machine Model: PowerMac11,2
CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (1.1)
Number Of CPUs: 2
CPU Speed: 2.3 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB
Memory: 4.5 GB
Bus Speed: 1.15 GHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.2.7f1
You don't have "2 CPU's"!!
I have the same PowerMac G5, and it's referred to as the "Dual Core" 2.3GHz G5, which has 1 CPU with TWO Cores, in essence 1 CPU with twin CPU architecture. You have PCI Express system bus architecture opposed to PCI-X architecture in the previous generation of G5's. Our computers, and the 2.0GHz Dual Core & 2.5GHz Quad Core models are the ONLY G5's ever made with the "970MP G5 CPU" to wit:
"(they are) the first and last Power Macintosh G5 models to use dual core PowerPC 970MP (G5) processors, which have two independent processor "cores" on a single silicon chip. The Power Macintosh G5 Dual Core (2.3) is powered by a single "dual core" 2.3 GHz PowerPC 970MP (G5) processor with dual optimized AltiVec "Velocity Engine" vector processing units (one per core), four double-precision FPUs (two per core), 1 MB of on-chip level 2 cache on each core, and a 1.15 GHz frontside system bus."
The SATA bus system is 1.5GB/Second, not 3GB/Second like the new Intel Mac Pros, so please leave the jumpers ON your new HDs. Our G5 PowerMacs are also the highest output G5's ever made without liquid cooling apparatus, a big PLUS in my book and the sole reason I chose my 2.3GHz Dual Core G5 over the Quad Core 2.5GHz model, which has an extensive, complicated, liquid cooling system which can only be a nightmare to deal with should anything ever go wrong with it. I know that people say the liquid cooling system is "over-engineered and foolproof" but I could never come to terms with owning such a system personally. I'll take my air-cooled 2.3GHz Dual Core system and be without that risk, and be happy with it...B)
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Doh! for some reason I thought the last rev of the G5's was SATAII, but it's not. Apple was really slow updating that.
So keep the jumper on.
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rexrzer exclaims: "You don't have "2 CPU's"!!
I was just pasting the info from "About this Mac" - which says, "Number Of CPUs: 2"
" Machine Name: Power Mac G5
Machine Model: PowerMac11,2
CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (1.1)
Number Of CPUs: 2
CPU Speed: 2.3 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB"
The 400 GB drives are now installed, and for some reason I took the jumpers off - maybe they are auto-negotiating down to 1.5 and not making a big deal about it, they seem to be working fine and I will report in if things go wonky.
