Talk:Power Mac G5

message: Now, I'm not going to report my own original research, since the section probably doesn't belong at all, but I count 4508 holes on the front of my machine. Yeah, I counted, what's it to you? 149.169.125.202 (talk) 09:17, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe, you missed at least one hole or two. Please, try counting once more...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.42.86.41 (talk) 10:55, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trivia 

message: According to Wikipedia the Mac mini is a desktop machine and, depending on how you are counting, could be considered the last Apple desktop to use a PowerPC chip. The Mac mini (G4) was released in 2005, compared with 2003 for the Power Mac G5, however, the Mac mini was lasted updated with a PowerPC chip in either September or October 2005, depending on who you ask, compared with the more concrete (and later) October, for November delivery, for the PowerMac G5.
jtjacques (talk) 23:59, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Last Apple Desktop to use a PowerPC Processor? 

message: Jonathan Ive, the designer behind all the modern Apple devices hasn't been mentioned in any one of the articles associated with the Apple devices he created, you could argue that Ive is the reason Apple is so famous today, I can only assume it's either due to ignorance or deliberate.Gone ahead and mentioned Ive whose recognition is long overdue.Twobells (talk) 15:10, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  No mention of designer 

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message: "A common problem amongst single processor G5s was that the plate of metal soldered to the Logic Board connecting all eight of the RAM slots would, over time, expand and contract in such a way that the computer could not boot properly, as it would not detect any RAM. The only way known to fix this problem is for someone to re-solder the plate themselves or expose the other side of the Logic Board to heat from a Heat Gun. The latter of these two options is far easier, as to access the plate of metal one would have to totally take out the Logic Board of the computer, whereas all one has to do to expose the other side is remove a fan."
The only thing approximating a metal plate on the back of the DIMM slots in a G5 is the memory controller, which is a surface mounted component connected via BGA (ball grid array). While I'm personally aware of anecdotal reports of the memory controller breaking & cracking its solder points leading to system failure (like many BGA connected surface mount components - the 360's red ring of death is one well known example), my concern is that this isn't a metal plate, it's an integrated circuit.
Should this paragraph be rewritten to be technically accurate? Or, since it's based on anecdotal reports from owners & hobbyists maintaining these aging systems, should it be removed entirely? That paragraph is unattributed. 97.78.116.118 (talk) 00:44, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Metal plate = memory controller? 

message: I just bought a PCI-X card for my 1.8 GHz DP Power MAC G5, and it gets detected as this in OpenBSD:
 ppb1 at pci3 dev 4 function 0 "Pericom PI7C21P100 PCIX-PCIX" rev 0x01
The card was inserted at slot 4 (highest) and this seems to indicate that it's operating at 133 MHz...a pcidump -v does also show the PCI-X flag capability.  
I just want to mention it becuase I was sweating about seemingly having PCI-X slots but the graph on this page showed that the 1.8 GHz DP on has only 64 bit PCI slots at 33 MHz.
While I can't find a definite indication that the speed is at 133 MHz neither in Mac OS X nor in OpenBSD this ppb1 device seems to give hope that it is 133 MHz.  Any thoughts?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:CB:3FFF:A93:0:0:0:5 (talk) 08:00, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The graph is a bit of a mess - it splits the machines into vertical columns, but the PCI/PCI-X information into horizontal rows. As both yourself and EveryMac points out the short-lived "generation one and a bit" dual-1.8ghz model had PCI-X sockets. The graph also mentions an M9494 model that doesn't seem to exist. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 21:43, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  PCI-X info not quite accurate for PowerMac7,3