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by **Mandrake** » Wed 09 Jun, 2004 8:18 am

I can't believe I beat Antony to this, but Apple has released new Power Macintosh G5s, Dual 1.8Ghz (different to the old one), and a new Dual 2.5Ghz G5. Looks like real good stuff. Link

Apple now offers Radeon 9600 XT and 9800 XT graphics cards in G5s, for seriously fast gaming.. I'd love to own one of these!

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by **Antony** » Wed 09 Jun, 2004 8:39 am

Mandrake wrote:I can't believe I beat Antony to this, ...

Not really, check this page from the upcoming MacInfo701, plus a new feature was being installed to this forum.

liquid cooling dual 2.5GHz PowerMac G5!!
Apple has just announced a Water-cooled 2.5GHz Powermac G5 available from the online store right now.

AU$Â 5,299.00
Dual 2.5GHz PowerPC G5 new
1.25GHz frontside bus/processor new
Water Cooling new
512K L2 cache/processor
512MB DDR400 SDRAM
Expandable to 8GB SDRAM
160GB Serial ATA
8x SuperDrive new
Three PCI-X Slots
ATI Radeon 9600 XT new
128MB DDR video memory new
56K internal modem

All models now come standard with the new 8x Superdrive and Dual Processors. Options include the 256MB ATI Radeon XT Video Card, Up to 500GB Serial ATA HD,
Apple have also updated prices on other non-watercooled models with A$Â 3,599.00 for the Dual 1.8GHz model and A$Â 4,499.00 for the Dual 2GHz model.

Based on news article found in AppleTalkAU, used with permission.

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by **DJGM** » Wed 09 Jun, 2004 8:47 am

If only I had a spare Â£3000 (approx) to buy one of these plus a suitable flatpanel display!

(Dream on, DJGM, dream on . . . !)

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by **Mandrake** » Wed 09 Jun, 2004 8:48 am

Well, I beat you to it here

Only bad thing about this, IMO, is the new Dual 1.8Ghz G5. It has only 4 DIMM slots, and no PCI-X slots. (Like the old 1.6Ghz G5) The Dual 2Ghz and new Dual 2.5Ghz G5 have PCI-X and eight DIMM slots.

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by **Antony** » Wed 09 Jun, 2004 11:06 pm

Dual 2.5GHz G5...
Just make me feel my Macs are getting slower now :-(

My PowerBook 12" is only 1.33GHz. My PowerMac Dual G4 is Dual 1.42GHz.

But, hay, the 1.33GHz PowerBook is still faster than the 3.2GHz Pentium 4 in DNA sequence matching, according to PowerBook G4 Technology Overview (April 2004) (pdf). I think I should be happy.

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by **Don_HH2K** » Sat 12 Jun, 2004 6:55 am

Standard water cooling, dual 2GHz 64-bit G5 processor? That would become my main PC if I had some $5000 dollars to spend on it... Until then it's the sub-$200 build-it-yourself-and-run-the-same-old-copy-of-Win98-on-it for me.

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by **Antony** » Sat 12 Jun, 2004 7:16 am

dluchini30 wrote:Standard water cooling, dual 2GHz 64-bit G5 processor?

No, the liquid cooling is only on the top of the line dual 2.5GHz, not dual 2GHz.

dluchini30 wrote:That would become my main PC if I had some $5000 dollars to spend on it...

Well, $5000 is AU$. It would be $2999 for Dual 2.5GHz.
Unlike many other web communities, SillyDog701 does not assume everybody is from 'Merica.

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by **Don_HH2K** » Sat 12 Jun, 2004 7:19 am

My mistake... Didn't notice that.

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by **Edward** » Sat 12 Jun, 2004 7:21 am

I have to ask this question...

What does one do when such a water-cooling system leaks?

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by **Don_HH2K** » Sat 12 Jun, 2004 7:29 am

Edward wrote:I have to ask this question...

What does one do when such a water-cooling system leaks?

Turn everything off immediately and hope that nothing happened?

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by **Antony** » Sat 12 Jun, 2004 7:33 am

Edward wrote:I have to ask this question...

What does one do when such a water-cooling system leaks?

Well, unless you are really interested on purchasing one of those machines, otherwise, you don't really need to ask.

The liquid cooling was designed to cool down the CPUs, it will be strong enough.
And the answer to your question...
1. send it back to Apple for repair or replacement;
2. remember to purchase the additional warranty (for 3 years) with AppleCare;
and most importantly,
0. it will be a big news. More serious than the crack hairline in G4 Cubes.

We do have zeroth law of thermodynamics.

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by **Edward** » Sat 12 Jun, 2004 7:41 am

I had wondered how safe such a system is, where water is involved, and if it leaks all over the inside of the system, especially if it's powered on when it happens, what a mess! Not to mention a fried system!

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by **Antony** » Sat 12 Jun, 2004 7:49 am

From some other technical articles I read, they don't really use "water". It's a special liquid.

If Apple can't guarantee the safety and the government approves it, you can claim compensation from government.

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by **Antony** » Sat 12 Jun, 2004 10:13 pm

(from AppleTalk AU),
apple-x.net posted some pics of the new liquid cooling unit inside the PowerMac G5, but the link is dead now. It might have been slashdotted.

I make a copy here.

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by **Haplo** » Sat 12 Jun, 2004 10:54 pm

Well, not having an X800 makes me angry, and apple sitting on their DDR-400 RAM is no good. With only 6.4GB/s throughput to the processors, the performance of the new G5s will be limited by that. Jobs promised 3GHz before the end of the year, and I don't know if we'll see it, but IBM is richer than anyone really knows and has superior marketing techniques (ie, they milk any new competing processors by sticking them in IBM servers and selling them) not to mention the fact that they throw ridiculous amounts into research when they actually feel like beating their competetors. Really the G5 has become IBM's child, sporting higher speeds than their own power5. IMO, what jobs ought to do for the 3GHz, which may come quickly which the adoption of a liquid cooling system, is push for the X800 XT or whatever GPU is top at the time to be ported to mac for it, and also move to DDR2 with at least DDR2-600 to better feed the 1.5GHz FSBs. Now I'd also like to see 128bit busses (which would be an entire 64bit instruction up and down each cycle) and the adoption of hyperthreading like in power5s, but whether or not apple will decide to push for higher technologies like that is debatable. Of course, a year ago a 1GHz FSB was unheard of, so who knows.

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