Should I keep or sell the 2.5ghz Dual Processor G5 PM?

[Tesselator]

Cripes Nano!

Do you have any links? Google is not being kind with this subject (On the G5 or for computer cooling in general)... Or do you have personal experience?

I would read the scientific papers on the subject, but I don't have access to my university account atm.

There was an automobile finishing product they used to advertise on late night TV in the 80's that was basically 100% silicon oil. Part of the 10min sales blurb was to submerge an open unboxed television while it was playing in a glass tank of the stuff.

It's about the same consistency as water too by watching the bubbles, so the pumps won't be stressed more than normal either.

 

[nanofrog]

Cripes Nano!

Do you have any links? Google is not being kind with this subject (On the G5 or for computer cooling in general)... Or do you have personal experience?

I would read the scientific papers on the subject, but I don't have access to my university account atm.

Just search Silicon Oil.

Here's a potential source.

It's about the same consistency as water too by watching the bubbles, so the pumps won't be stressed more than normal either.

Yup. It's thin, conducts heat well, electrically non conductive, and non flammable as well.

Mineral oil has also been used, but is a little thicker. Given the smallish pumps in the G5 (from what I can tell from photo's), the silicon oil would be easier on them.

 

[zmttoxics]

PPC may be dead for Apple, but its far from dead. Keep the machine and put Linux on it. Would make a decent server.

 

[Tesselator]

Mineral oil has also been used, but is a little thicker. Given the smallish pumps in the G5 (from what I can tell from photo's), the silicon oil would be easier on them.

There's a demo on tom's hardware somewhere of submerged cooling where they take a very overclocked PC and run it in a fish-tank full of a certain kind of salad oil.

Pretty funny stuff!

 

[nanofrog]

There's a demo on tom's hardware somewhere of submerged cooling where they take a very overclocked PC and run it in a fish-tank full of a certain kind of salad oil.

Pretty funny stuff!

I've seen this with mineral oil, but not with salad dressing! Swapping cards... What a mess.

 

[Tucom]

The Fixit Powerstation has the same processors as the G5 and is air-cooled, but also similarly priced (around $1200 - what the G5 quads sell for on FleaBay). If I could get my hands on the heatsink, I would replace it, but I can't find out who/what/where makes them! And personally, I would pay $100 for that heatsink! I know its daylight robbery, but a replacement would mean I could let my G5 render and I wouldn't have to check back every few minutes on its temps...

I know this thread is old, so sorry for that in retrospect (not really, but just sayin) but Im really curious as to what this Fixit PowerStation is, Google isn't producing any results.


Anyone know anything about?

Found some info -

http://cruxppc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=342

Nvm, think I found it: http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Quadcore-PowerPC-workstation-runs-Linux/

Woooah, an air cooled Quad G5, in an IBM-esque chasse! Pretty epic, and in a diff kinda way, pretty, haha.