On Dec 7, 2008, at 10:26 PM, Donald Hall wrote: > Actually, the dual 2.7 has PCI-X slots. PCI-X is mostly backward > compatible to PCI. > > Jack is most likely referring to the slot keying. Around the MDD era, > the old 5 volt PCI cards started being phased out in favor of 3.3v or > universal PCI cards. To make sure that a card would still work, the > slots keying was changed so you couldn't insert an incompatible card.
You are correct, and off-list I misinformed Jack about a PCI-X card for his 2.7 GHz G5, so apologies to Jack, and YES, your 2.7 can use PCI-X cards. It's strange to me how the 2.7 GHz is an earlier model than the later 2.0, 2.3 and 2.5 GHz versions that use PCIe. I consider PCIe to be an upgrade from PCI-X, much the way that AGP video was an upgrade from PCI video in the earlier PowerMac G4. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
