On Feb 19, 2013, at 11:10 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <gdigio...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Since we still have a couple of PowerMac G5 and a few recent Mac Pro > test units in the lab, I fired them up with a cooling system test app > to see how different the noise at nominal and full blast cooling. > These machine are about half populated with hardware and such. > > My answer: not much. Very precise, I know. ;-) If you want to hear how loud they *can* go, run the hardware test on the system DVD. The first thing it does is turn all the fans up to 11 and my old 1st gen G5 1.6 was very loud. Having said that it was only when I did heavy Photoshop stuff on large files (350Mb medium format scans) that I'd hear the fans to go any higher than idle, and even then it wasn't by much. At idle it's only a quiet whirr. I'm fussy enough that I would have liked it a bit quieter. I keep the machine on the floor partly so the noise source isn't at head level, and also because I want the desk space. I haven't actually used it for a long time but when I get around to it I'm going to use it to finish my old scanning project. I installed the trial version of Vuescan on my Macbook Pro but I preferred the old Minolta software (which is PPC only). It's all set up but requires a bit less procrastination... Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
