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anyone got a g5 yet? if so how loud is it?

Re: Re: quiet.

Originally posted by reflex
Listening to it in a (presumably) loud environment doesn't really give a good indication of how noticeable it would be in my my relatively quiet office (where the computer is the main source of noise).
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Sure. But my head was literally right next to it. And there were only 2 other people standing there talking. It was not that loud in there.

Go ahead and be a skeptic, but this thing is freaking quiet.
 
just heard a 1.6 at idle at the apple store next to a dual g4.
it is 1/3 as loud at idle but then it is not at 1.6 when at idle .
from what i could gather, is that as the processor load increases, heat increases, fans spin faster, and it gets louder. from my limited time with the g5, i think it is about half as quiet. now a dual 2ghz playing quake3 with both processors at full, may not be that much quieter. we still have to wait for that quiet, but the 1.6 is noticeably quieter i can safely say,.
 
Originally posted by daveg5
thats exactly what i was thinking
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not only that.
dust is going to be a problem, apple may cut a slot opening in the top toward the front so you can drop disposable dust filters in there to protect the g5 innards from dust.
the handles were way too big for the 39.2 pound machine, but the quality of the G5 is second to none. opening the older g4 is far easier and more elegant though.
 
G5 Noise

I was just at the local Fry's Electronics in Willsonville, Oregon, where they have a 1.6 G5 on display. It is set up next to several G4s and PowerBooks. I started a conversation with the sales man, taking much of the knowledge I have learned here, and he took the machine apart and showed it to me, and explained all the functions (Like I don't know how a Computer is Organized). Then I started talking about fan noise, he showed me the airflow reflector that fits insode and told me how several people commented on how quiet it is. He put it back together and started it up, and I put my ear right next to the front grill.... I said "Damn, My Cat purrs louder than that!" It was incredible, reminded me of the (Old) iMac, how quiet it was.... the noise was even less than my old Apple ][+ and that didn't even have a fan. My PowerBook makes about 50x the ammount of noise at the G5. Well he started up several Apps (System Profiler, iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Photoshop) about 15 of them, btw all splashed with in 1.5 bounces and those with loading screens were up almost instantly. (Including System Profiler which had scaned the machine before the window opened). The Fans kicked up, it wasn't very loud, about the same as an early G4, or personally my very old 386... basicly no more noise than a normal p/s fan would generate. It was awesome, and much quieter than its neighbors the G4 MDD. I'd estimate that the Dual would act similar, but just a smidge louder.

Want any more info???

TEG
 
Taking all the posts with a grain of salt, if the G5 is supremely quiet, the harddrives would negate this. The only posting that I've seen that seems to be a realistic one is one that was posted by steveG5 on MacAddict who picked up a 1.6 G5 from Stanford and has played with it for a few days. He had posted that overall the machine was quite, but the harddrive was annoyingly loud (most likely due to the frequency of the sound emitted) As great as it would be for everything to run solid state (so we didn't have spinning platters), personal computers are not at that level yet and a fact of life is there will be writing to the hard drive during heavy tasks (including rendering, even if you loaded the G5 up with RAM)

I'd also wonder if the G5's interior (with it's cleanliness) isn't a bit of a sounding chamber. It has all the qualities necessary with plenty of reflective surfaces and the "cheese grater" front and backs acting as sound openings.
 
Originally posted by daveg5
now a dual 2ghz playing quake3 with both processors at full, may not be that much quieter. we still have to wait for that quiet, but the 1.6 is noticeably quieter i can safely say,.
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A dual 2GHz playing Quake3... you do not need the computer to be quiet. You will have the speaker cranked out to full, and you'd be yelling "I FRAGGED YA! WHO'S DA MAN!!! WHO'S DA MAN!!!"

:D :D :D
 
I just saw a G5 in person today and the thing was like a whisper. I had to put my ear right up against the front grille just to hear the fan noise, which on its own is remarkably low key.

Very nice job on Apple's part.
 
well ill tell you how loud a 1.8 is tomorrow. but honestly i thought my MDD powermac was real quiet. so maybe i have low expectations.

iJon
 
Originally posted by iJon
well ill tell you how loud a 1.8 is tomorrow. but honestly i thought my MDD powermac was real quiet. so maybe i have low expectations.

iJon
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Whats a MDD PowerMac?
 
my pc has 6 fans in it (2 in the psu, one on the cpu, one on the video card, 2 for the case - all silent, mostly Zalmans). It runs at about 38dba and i can hardly hear a thing at the moment, steve jobs said the new G5s run at ~35dba. A silent room is about 25dba, so they're pretty damn quiet if the stats are true.
 
Originally posted by legion


I'd also wonder if the G5's interior (with it's cleanliness) isn't a bit of a sounding chamber. It has all the qualities necessary with plenty of reflective surfaces and the "cheese grater" front and backs acting as sound openings.
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no. it is designed that way for heat dissipation AND noise.
 
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