I have a G5 Dual Core (2.0) (Late 2005, M9590LL/A, PowerMac 11,2) that has eight memory slots. EveryMac says that this G-5 is maxed out at 16 GB of memory. Mine has 8 GB right now (1 GB chip in each slot).
Does that mean that if you put more than 16 GB in the memory slots, it will only recognize or use 16? I heard that you can sometimes put more memory in some G5s than Apple claimed was the limit. Is this G5 one of those? Say I were to put 4 GB chips in four of the slots, I'd get 16 GB of RAM from those, and there would still be four slots with 1 GB in them. Would this Mac then recognize 20 GB of RAM, or only 16? For that matter, what if I filled every one of those eight slots with 4 GB chips--would the Mac then recognize and use 32 GB? I'm doing Final Cut video editing with this Mac, and the render times are awfully slow. I sit for long periods just waiting for the render bars to fill up, and nothing can be done until they do--the program is frozen. I could sure get a lot more done if i could speed up that rendering, and some people tell me that maxing out the RAM helps a lot. Any advice appreciated. Tom -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
