On Jan 5, 2013, at 6:03 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
The quad G5 has a much lower rate of LCS failure or compromise than
other
liquid cooled G5s. If it were, say, a dual 2.5 like my folks', I agree
I'd check the LCS first. But on this quad, I'd do the clean-up and
thermal
paste renewal first because you'll have to do it anyway, and it's
more likely
to be the issue. For relative failure rates, see this handy table:
http://www.macintouch.com/reliability/pmg5.html
Of the three quad G5s I have personally owned, none of them had an
LCS issue.
The one that's "dead" fried its logic board for some other reason,
and the
other two are still going strong.
Wish I felt comfortable trying reseating the cpu with new thermal
paste ... given the chance - I wouldn't mind trying.
But I am sending it back for a refund. It's a bit over my level of
"expertise" gained by changing a mobo in my QS 2002 Dual 1GHz a few
years ago ... now my cpu needs changing, if I could find one ...
Money is also a factor ... I had to borrow the funds thinking I didn't
want to miss such a good deal ... it was worth a try. although I paid
too much for it.
A friend just suggested I consider a 1st or 2nd generation Mac Pro. I
just might take him up on the idea ... and try moving my software into
the Intel world, 1 expensive chunk at a time. Then I could keep up
with the later generation OS Xs, if I wanted to, and have a cooler
running machine.
Thanks for all the great information.
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