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Crucial memory and ssd upgrades 100% compatibility guaranteed for power mac g5 quad 2. Added pny xlr8 120gb ssd in second drive bay of my power mac g5 dual core 2. See apple specs for the original power mac g5 here, the june 2004 revision here, the late 2004 here and early 2005 here. The thing is that the powerpc and intel processors are entirely different architectures.
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