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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 14:15, 3 December 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l11">Line 11:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 11:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Another limitation <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(</del>correction<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">?) despite what </del>EveryMac <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">claims, the unit is not capable </del>of 16GB of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">memory</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Only 8GB can be installed (I learned this the </del>hard <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">way!)</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Another limitation <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </ins>correction <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">from the </ins>EveryMac <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Wiki. Early Xserve G5's could only take 8GB </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">RAM (via 8 1GB DIMM's). 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<p>Created page with &quot;Unlike it&#039;s little brother the <a href="/wiki/Xserve_G4" title="Xserve G4">Xserve G4</a> the Xserve G5 is a significant step up in capability and usefulness. The unit I own is the fastest Xserve G5 model sold. The 2.3Ghz &quot;Dual Processor&quot; G5. Unlike its &quot;cheese grater sibling&quot; the <a href="/wiki/Powermac_G5" title="Powermac G5">G5 Quad</a> the DP Xserve is based on the older G5 lineage, featuring &#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;PCI-X&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039; rather than PCI-E slots. This significantly reduces its expandability as 64-bit PCI-X slots are limited to approximately 266MB/s of ban...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Unlike it&#039;s little brother the [[Xserve G4]] the Xserve G5 is a significant step up in capability and usefulness.<br /> <br /> <br /> The unit I own is the fastest Xserve G5 model sold. The 2.3Ghz &quot;Dual Processor&quot; G5. <br /> <br /> <br /> Unlike its &quot;cheese grater sibling&quot; the [[Powermac G5|G5 Quad]] the DP Xserve is based on the older G5 lineage, featuring &#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;PCI-X&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039; rather than PCI-E slots. This significantly reduces its expandability as 64-bit PCI-X slots are limited to approximately 266MB/s of bandwidth, versus the 4GB/s of a PCI-E 1.0 16x slot in the G5 Quad.<br /> <br /> <br /> This limitation means we&#039;re stuck with only gigabit ethernet rather than the 10G of the Quad. We also only get two PCI-X slots in total instead of three. Of which at least one requires a video card to be installed to operate the unit (unless remote administration tools are installed)<br /> <br /> <br /> Another limitation (correction?) despite what EveryMac claims, the unit is not capable of 16GB of memory. Only 8GB can be installed (I learned this the hard way!)<br /> <br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;At present the G5 is paired with a 120GB SATA disk with OS X 10.5.9 &quot;Sorbet&quot; Leopard. However at time of writing the machine is currently unused, pending decisions about what tasks to run on it&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> [[File:Xserve G5 (Front).jpg|alt=Xserve G5 (Front)|none|thumb|Xserve G5 (Front)]]<br /> [[File:Xserve G5 (Rear).jpg|alt=Xserve G5 (Rear)|none|thumb|Xserve G5 (Rear)]]</div>

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