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Originally Posted by cm0s
If I would buy a G5 now, do you think it will be the same? Or have they fixed this issue?
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It's only a problem between powercore and G5's motherboard. The DP1.8 which they sell right now is the same june 2004 version so the problem exists. In fact the powercore pci card is quite old design already and that's propably the reason why it doesn't work with every combination of cards. There are many other pc mobo's too which the powercore may not work with.
However, the june 2004 version G5 is the best G5 to run the UAD1, because it has the standard pci slots. You can use up to about 95% of the UAD1 card's dsp for plugins in this computer. But with DP2.0 and DP2.5 (which have pci-x buses) have problems with uad1 because they use an AMD pci-x controller which has a conflict with AUD1. You can use only up to 60-75% of UAD1's dsp with these computers. So the UAD1 doesn't like pci-x. Also if you add more uad1 cards, they perform even worse, but this happens only with pci-x.
If you want to use uad1, go for the dp1.8 with pci slots. It performs well.