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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Bringing online my Powermac G5. RAM Upgrade? | Posted by: gryffinwings on 2019-06-05 17:49:32
Starting to get my PowerMac G5 DP 2.0 GHZ (Powermac7,3) working properly again. However, upon booting it up, it's not seeing some of the RAM that was installed, could just be a simple thing, but I'm planning on upgrading the amount of RAM. Is the PowerMac G5 picky about what RAM it will accept? I know that it needs DDR 400 SDRAM, I'm also reading that I can only install 4GB of ram and I have 8 slots for RAM to be installed, so I can only install 512 MB RAM sticks. Is my information correct or is there a trick that I can do to increase the amount of RAM I can install into this PowerMac G5?
| Posted by: Unknown_K on 2019-06-05 18:00:49
If there are 8 slots you can install 8GB (8x1GB), some machines were PCI not PCI-X and only had 4 RAM slots so those were 4GB Max.
Just make sure you don't buy AMD only (high density) or server RAM, otherwise you are good.
| Posted by: gryffinwings on 2019-06-05 18:31:40
If there are 8 slots you can install 8GB (8x1GB), some machines were PCI not PCI-X and only had 4 RAM slots so those were 4GB Max.
Just make sure you don't buy AMD only (high density) or server RAM, otherwise you are good. Thank you for the information, some information I was reading showed only 4GB for my particular model for the 2.0 DP model Powermac 7,3, which made things rather confusing to me.
| Posted by: johnklos on 2019-06-05 19:36:52
Eight slots means you can have up to 8 gigs of memory. It's not all that picky, but I've found lots of older memory which won't properly run at the full 400 MHz. Considering how cheap the memory is these days, though, you should be able to get matching sets for really not much.
| Posted by: gryffinwings on 2019-06-06 10:25:08
Eight slots means you can have up to 8 gigs of memory. It's not all that picky, but I've found lots of older memory which won't properly run at the full 400 MHz. Considering how cheap the memory is these days, though, you should be able to get matching sets for really not much. Thanks for clarifying, I have an addition 4GB on order right now, going to have to find an addition 4GB that is a good price, haven't found it quite yet. After that, I'll be looking at getting a decent 240GB SSD, maybe a crucial to replace the mechanical hard drive installed right now. Then maybe I'll replace the graphics card, but most of them are really expensive on ebay.
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