I opened my G5 just to insert the Radeon 7000 to see if it would even fit. It fits with absolutely no problem into slot 3. It would fit into slots 2 and 4 easily as well....those are both filled with an adaptec AFW-4300A 3-port FW PCI cardand some old 5-port firewire macally PCI card. those 2 cards are both old regular old PCI cards too, nothing special for the G5......
So now I am scared to turn it on, though, because of the whole 3.3 vs 5 volts thing.....could I blow anything up, hurt the computer? I would wish that if there was a problem, that simply the PCI card would not function but wouldn't hurt anything.
BUT I'M SCARED TO TRY!!!
help me, anyone know whether FOR SURE the original dual 2 GHZ Powermac G5 from early May 2004 (not June) with these PCI specs:
"Three open full-length PCI-X slots: one 133MHz, 64-bit slot and two 100MHz, 64-bit slots"
would be able to accept a Radeon 7000 when two obviously old PCI cards work fine alread??
aahhhhhhhhhhh