Yes Kyle, I was trying to turn it into a desktop. I might have had the opportunity to buy a G5 Xserve for less than $1000. Those of us at the lower end of the economic spectrum need to think outside the computer case. But I appreciate your concern and it was the caution of both yourself and Bruce that encouraged me to closely look at the specs page, discovering that it was impossible to adapt this Cluster Node Xserve. Thank you.
Didn't know they had a stripped cluster node box... interesting.
That said, if the opportunity presents itself that one of the other two styles of G5 Xserve are available to me for cheap, there are still a couple things that would be good to know. Bruce, I'm confused about ethernet on this. I asked, "The Apple document says there are two ethernet sockets on the motherboard. Can those be used directly or does one need to use the optional PCI-X card?" To which you answered, "Yes." As there were two questions I am unsure which one you were saying yes to. Would you please clarify?
If the docs list two onboard ethernet ports, then they are there for you to use, no pci slots hogged up to do so.
If one were to add video and audio I was thinking of an ATI Radeon 9200 Mac Edition PCI card with 128MB of memory and probably a M-audio sound card. Any reason to think that the PCI-X slots would be incompatible with those?
The beauty of PCI-X is it's backwards compatible. Standard antique PCI functions just fine in a 64bit 133mhz PCI-X slot. Infact, most PCI-X cards can also be used in old PCI slots as well. Wonderful spec that way. : )
Joshua Coombs
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