Mac Pro needs heat sink?

[remmy]

Wow I thought you were making stuff up until you posted the pics, seems crazy to chop the handles off. They do run hot, I remember my legs getting to warm when I used to use one with it on the floor.

Hope it works fine.

 

[Lord Zedd]

1GB is barely enough for OSX to run well. Once you give 256 or 512mb to Winblows it will be much too small. I'm sitting at 2.4gb used and 1.1GB free with just Bittorrent, firefox, mail and MSmessenger open.

2GB is what I would consider minimum with 4gb the ideal amount for now.

 

[pwn247]

How could you cut the handles off of something like that? Your school is dumb.

But anyway, the heatsink has nothing to do with the exterior of the case. The heatsink sits atop the CPU (which is inside of that "G5" casing). Try pulling that plastic casing off and taking another picture.

 

[krye]

That case is trashed. A sin really. I'd drop some cash and get my hands on a new case and make it new.

As far as the overheating goes, I'd make sure that the CPU heatsink is firmly seated. If memory serves, some of the G5s were liquid cooled. Is this one of those and if so, is everything in order?

 

[macenforcer]

The problem is the power supply. It resides at the bottom of the machine on G5s. Since it is now sitting on the floor that is causing the PSU to get really really hot and hence overheating the unit. Simply putting the system on some kind of stand or blocks should fix the problem. I would not spend any money on this machine though. A base model mac mini has 4 times the processing power of that old machine.

 

[newmacchick]

That case is trashed. A sin really. I'd drop some cash and get my hands on a new case and make it new.

As far as the overheating goes, I'd make sure that the CPU heatsink is firmly seated. If memory serves, some of the G5s were liquid cooled. Is this one of those and if so, is everything in order?

No, definitely not liquid cooled. It's the first line of G5s ever produced, the 1.6 GHz. I'm thinking I'm probably going to end up selling it for parts individually on eBay at some point.