OS 10.4.11 Tiger or 10.5.8 Leopard running on PM G5 modell 7.3 and 11.2

Hi!
Any recomondation on running either 10.4.11 or 10.5.8 on these two PM G5 modells?

Hi!
My PM G5 modell 7,3 from 2004 have 8 GB of RAM and are running a 256 MB of VRAM Graphics card, the other G5 model 11.2 (2,3 GHz)  have 16 GB of RAM and are running an NVIDIA GeForce 4500 card og 512 MB VRAM. I have installet OS X 10.5.8 on the 7.3 modell and 10.4.11 on the modell 11.2. I have had several PM G5 modell 11.2 running 10.5.8  but they eventually "died" - some had logic board failures and other had CPU failures. So I decided to only run 10.4.11 on this machine....  I do not use OS 9.

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