well, also the g5 has integrated ethernet and sound which means they run on the system bus and so adding a pci sound card and ethernet could give it a slight speed boostSun Baked said:There's a good chance the PCI-X card is on a faster bus than the KeyLargo2's Ethernet port (which is a PCI bus shared by all I/O).
The X-Serve G5 uses a built-in Broadcom PCI-X gig-Ethernet chip that resides off the KeyLargo.
Since the Broadcom offerings are 10-gigabit capable, Apple may be bumping the PowerMac's ethernet soon.
As I said the integrated ethernet is on the KeyLargo2 -- which has a shared PCI-bus with ALL other I/O.homerjward said:well, also the g5 has integrated ethernet and sound which means they run on the system bus and so adding a pci sound card and ethernet could give it a slight speed boost