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Change the LCS in a G5 Quad?

iModFrenzy

iModFrenzy

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I have heard that the G5 Quad LCS is unreliable, since they are about 9 years old. I was wondering if it would be possible to use a Corsair H100 or something for the LCS in the Quad. I don't own a quad so I am not sure how they put the cooling on. Just curious if I ever pick one up.:)
 
iModFrenzy said:
I have heard that the G5 Quad LCS is unreliable, since they are about 9 years old. I was wondering if it would be possible to use a Corsair H100 or something for the LCS in the Quad. I don't own a quad so I am not sure how they put the cooling on. Just curious if I ever pick one up.:)
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If you're skilled enough, I'm sure it's possible. I imagine you'd have to fabricate a few parts that might require access to special tools.
 
In principle I can't see why it mechanically wouldn't work with the correct adaptor to mount the CPU block. It's self contained and manages the pump/fan speeds itself.

I run an H100 in my gaming PC - it's very quiet and efficient.
 
So, hate to wake the dead, but has anyone got a different liquid cooling solution in their Quad yet? I have a single pump Delphi model in my Quad but the fans are loud all the time and both CPUs fail thermal calibration for overheat. Still boots and works though, but I have not put it to any real work to push it.
 
dustinschings said:
So, hate to wake the dead, but has anyone got a different liquid cooling solution in their Quad yet? I have a single pump Delphi model in my Quad but the fans are loud all the time and both CPUs fail thermal calibration for overheat. Still boots and works though, but I have not put it to any real work to push it.
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I seem to be stating this regularly, but if your G5’s cooling system isn’t as effective as it once was, it’s time to renew the thermal paste, LCS or not.
 
I have exactly the same problem, can't calibrate the fans because of CPU overheat. I need to replace the thermal paste, I hope I get around to do it next week.
 
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reukiodo said:
Has anyone been able to replace the quad LCS with aircool-only system?
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One time I did replace both of the dual 2.5 ghz processors and the lleaky LCS with two of the dual 2.0ghz from the dual 2.0 PCIe G5, and two of the older heat sinks from a PCIx 1.8. It wasn't the cleanest build and there wasn't a good way to fully secure them but it worked fine. I since got rid of it so I can't take any pictures now but somewhere there exists an air cooled quad 2.0 G5.
You could make another if you have the right parts from 4 donor G5s.
 
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Bubalight said:
One time I did replace both of the dual 2.5 ghz processors and the lleaky LCS with two of the dual 2.0ghz from the dual 2.0 PCIe G5, and two of the older heat sinks from a PCIx 1.8. It wasn't the cleanest build and there wasn't a good way to fully secure them but it worked fine. I since got rid of it so I can't take any pictures now but somewhere there exists an air cooled quad 2.0 G5.
You could make another if you have the right parts from 4 donor G5s.
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Was it possible to use both dual 2.5 CPUs? Or was it a must to switch to the dual 2.0 CPUs?
 
I do not believe the smaller heat sinks would provide adequate cooling power for the dual 2.5 Ghz, possibly not even with the fans running at max. and certainly not in the summer time or anything outside of a refrigerator. But I didn't try.
 
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