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Technology Overview 4 Power Mac G5 Inside the Power Mac G5 The Power Mac G5 is loaded with state-of-the-art technologies that translate into blistering performance. Take a tour of this power-packed interior. SuperDrive with double-layer support The SuperDrive built into every Power Mac G5 reads and writes a wide variety of DVD and CD media. You can even author media or archive data on double-layer (DVD+R DL) discs capable of holding up to 8.5GB of data. Serial ATA storage Two Serial ATA hard drive bays with a 1.5-Gbps interface provide up to 1TB of fast internal storage2-ideal for video, audio, and high-resolution graphics. Software RAID in Mac OS X allows you to stripe the drives for increased performance or mirror them for high reliability. PCI Express expansion Three PCI Express expansion slots with four or eight lanes allow you to add PCI Express cards for video capture and playback, audio DSP, and other special tasks. For massive storage, just add an Apple Fibre Channel PCI Express Card and Xserve RAID, Apple's high-performance storage system. Up to 16GB of main memory Eight DIMM slots hold up to 16GB of fast new 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM. For mission-critical and compute-intensive environments, you now have the option of ECC (Error Correction Code) memory for automatic correction and detection of data errors. Dual-core PowerPC G5 processor Two independent cores on one processor, each with 1MB of L2 cache and running at clock speeds up to 2.5GHz-it all adds up to awesome power in your choice of configurations, including the groundbreaking quad-core Power Mac G5 Quad, which runs key applications up to 69 percent faster than the fastest dual-processor Power Mac G5.1 PCI Express graphics The 16-lane PCI Express slot holds your choice of the latest consumer and workstation graphics cards. The new standard for high-performance graphics, PCI Express delivers throughput of up to 4 GBps-twice that of its AGP 8X predecessor- for ultrafast 3D, glorious onscreen details, and immersive visualization.

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Technology Overview
Power Mac G5
Inside the Power Mac G5
The Power Mac G5 is loaded with state-of-the-art technologies that translate into
blistering performance. Take a tour of this power-packed interior.
SuperDrive with double-layer support
The SuperDrive built into every Power Mac G5
reads and writes a wide variety of DVD and CD
media. You can even author media or archive
data on double-layer (DVD+R DL) discs capable
of holding up to 8.5GB of data.
Serial ATA storage
Two Serial ATA hard drive bays with a 1.5-Gbps
interface provide up to 1TB of fast internal
storage
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—ideal for video, audio, and high-resolu-
tion graphics. Software RAID in Mac OS X allows
you to stripe the drives for increased performance
or mirror them for high reliability.
PCI Express expansion
Three PCI Express expansion slots with four or
eight lanes allow you to add PCI Express cards for
video capture and playback, audio DSP, and other
special tasks. For massive storage, just add an
Apple Fibre Channel PCI Express Card and Xserve
RAID, Apple’s high-performance storage system.
Up to 16GB of main memory
Eight DIMM slots hold up to 16GB of fast new
533MHz DDR2 SDRAM. For mission-critical
and compute-intensive environments, you now
have the option of ECC (Error Correction Code)
memory for automatic correction and detection
of data errors.
Dual-core PowerPC G5 processor
Two independent cores on one processor, each
with 1MB of L2 cache and running at clock
speeds up to 2.5GHz—it all adds up to awesome
power in your choice of configurations, including
the groundbreaking quad-core Power Mac G5
Quad, which runs key applications up to 69
percent faster than the fastest dual-processor
Power Mac G5.
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PCI Express graphics
The 16-lane PCI Express slot holds your choice
of the latest consumer and workstation graphics
cards. The new standard for high-performance
graphics, PCI Express delivers throughput of up to
4 GBps—twice that of its AGP 8X predecessor—
for ultrafast 3D, glorious onscreen details, and
immersive visualization.