Nvidia Quadro FX 4500 and my Power Mac G5 Dual 2,3 GHz
Hi.
I am fully satisfied from my iMac 27 2,8 GHz i7. However, I also have a Power Mac G5 dual 2,3 GHz (late 2005). I bought a Nvidia Quadro FX 4500 with 512 Mb of vram from an user that sold every piece of its faulty Power Mac G5 2,5 GHz (late 2005, too). I would like to replace standard Nvidia GeForce 6600 graphic card with 256 Mb of vram. Unluckily, after I did fit it in my G5 I was not able to close its transparent plastic air deflector door: it seems that graphic card has a couple of fans fitted in the top, plus some big iron cables that use enough space.
Owner of dual 2,5 told me that he closed transparent plastic without problem with this Quadro card fitted in it so the question: 2,5 GHz unit mount a different air deflector? Can I mount the same deflector in my 2,3 GHz unit so that I will can close the door, too?
Another question: can I mount a SSD disk in my G5? I have one 250 GB SATA disk like boot disk and a second 1 GHz SATA disk. I would replace the boot disk with a SSD disk (60 GB or 120 GB). Since G5 has SATA 1 I have to find only SATA 2 SSD or SATA 3 work fine?
Thank you.
PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8), G5 dual 2,3 GHz (late 2005)
