Manawyrm on Nostr: I'm rich, haha! 😹 Just kidding of course, that's DDR2-800 memory. Still a whopping ...
I'm rich, haha! 😹
Just kidding of course, that's DDR2-800 memory.
Still a whopping 16 GiB of it, though, as an upgrade for my beautiful PowerMac G5 (Dual 2.0GHz).
Only problem: The Mac would only ever run the memory at PC2-3200U (aka 400 MHz), not the full 533MHz.
Someone else had luckily dumped the OpenFirmware ROM and it could determine that it doesn't handle such fast memory properly, it'll just fall back to 400 MHz.
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