PowerMac G5 Dual 2.0 DDR2 (2 Phisical CPU's)?

[sirozzy]

I have a question. I have one of those and was wondering that as far as i know i have another slot for CPU on the Logicboard. Is it possible to plug another one of those Dual 2.0 on it? Why the logic board have that feature if that slot stays empty? Anyone have try to put another Dual 2.0?
I could buy one for £20 and make it as quad 2.0

Asking for answer with explanations why not. Not just saying "no"
Thank you.

 

[0007776]

I've never heard of anyone trying it, I don't think your model actually has the second slot for the CPU, have you actually looked to see if there is a place for one? If it does have an extra slot then it is there just because Apple wanted to standardize the logic boards between all the configurations of G5s.

 

[MacHamster68]

in theory possible but you need to go watercooled in order to get half sufficient cooling as aircooling the dual cores is i guess a no go route possible why apple gone watercooling and need to deal with those shortcomings in the cooling system (leak's) , then there is still the question if the board can handle 2 dual core processors as to my knowledge nobody ever even tried it , which would evetually mean to get a board of the quad core , the watercooling system of the quad core and a second dual core cpu plus doughtercard and .......
so its a lot cheaper and a lot easier to just get the 2.5ghz quad core in first place if you want the power of four cores

 

[sirozzy]

Thank you v.much. That's exactly what i wanted to hear

So it's simple i need Quad 2.5

Thanks again guys

 

[UnitedAlliance]

The place is there, but there is no connector soldered in place. So, no, its physically impossible to install another CPU into your computer.