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Author Topic: Fastest Powermac G5 Quad/PCI-Express  (Read 2317 times)

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Fastest Powermac G5 Quad/PCI-Express
« on: November 30, 2018, 04:14:37 AM »
https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/specs/powermac_g5_quad_2.5.html

the author concluded that the PMG5 Quad just cant acheive SataIII speeds;
so its best to use only SataII level devices for these machines;
PCI-E SataII controller + SataII SSD's,
imho i think a pci-e x4 controller such as the e4i from Sonnet
https://www.sonnettech.com/product/legacyproducts/tempo_sata_e4i.html
combined with some older SSDs (OCZ vertex ??) should be able to reach the bottleneck of the G5's performance
without wasting hardware that would perform better on a more modern intel platform





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