Late PM G5 quad and Fiber Channel card

hello, will working on my late powermac G5 quad the Apple Fibre Channel card MA462G/A???
i will connect the apple raid...
the description implies that this card is Intel only...
when not, then what card you recommend?
thanks

My Quad has the 6600, 4.5G RAM, and 2 - 250G drives, Airport/Bluetooth. I loaded the system by running a process which runs 4 threads randomly moving 1M chunks of RAM around (from a block of about 3G), and verifying the memory isn't corrupted. Activity Monitor shows the CPU at 0% idle, my test program is using about 380% CPU. Processor is set to Highest in Energy Saver prefs.
I'm using a Kill-A-Watt. Running as described above, wattage is displaying 426.
I'm might be able to get it to use a few more watts by exercising the drives, but not more than about 20W.
My point is that the Quad itself doesn't use as much power as some think.
The UPS sure makes it easy to add the Kill-A-Watt without rebooting.
Quad G5 2.5Ghz 4.5GB 2x250G, PB 15" 1.5Ghz,80G,1.5G Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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