Re: Bob's G5 odyssey

2012-04-27 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: Bob's G5 odyssey Date:Thursday, 26. April 2012 From:Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com I may be wrong, but is there a liquid cooled 2.3 GHz? Sorry, I should have clarified. Yes, neither

Re: Bob's G5 odyssey

2012-04-26 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: Bob's G5 odyssey Date:Thursday, 26. April 2012 From:Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com I would not get the LCS 2.7 or 2.3. I may be wrong, but is there a liquid cooled 2.3 GHz? Sorry, I

Re: Bob's G5 odyssey

2012-04-26 Thread Cameron Kaiser
I may be wrong, but is there a liquid cooled 2.3 GHz? Sorry, I should have clarified. Yes, neither 2.3 is LCS, but the later 2.3 of that same generation seems to be inferior to the previous 2.3. Sorry for my misunderstanding. If I may ask: what's the problem with the Early 2005 2.3

Bob's G5 odyssey

2012-04-25 Thread Cameron Kaiser
My MDD pulls 155-170 watts (monitor off) just twiddling it's thumbs. It is _massively_ hot. That's pretty high, even for a wind tunnel Mac. My dual 1.8GHz MDD (using an aftermarket Sonnet G4 card) pulls around 140, but it is usually in OS 9, so OS X might flog it harder. The G4 card also has

Re: Bob's G5 odyssey

2012-04-25 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Bob's G5 odyssey Date:Wednesday, 25. April 2012 From:various To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com My MDD pulls 155-170 watts (monitor off) just twiddling it's thumbs. It is _massively_ hot. That's pretty high, even for a wind tunnel

Re: Bob's G5 odyssey

2012-04-25 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: Bob's G5 odyssey Date:Wednesday, 25. April 2012 From:Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com As for the Quad: in my opinion they are still very expensive and you will get an old liquid cooled system

Re: Bob's G5 odyssey

2012-04-25 Thread Cameron Kaiser
I would not get the LCS 2.7 or 2.3. I may be wrong, but is there a liquid cooled 2.3 GHz? Sorry, I should have clarified. Yes, neither 2.3 is LCS, but the later 2.3 of that same generation seems to be inferior to the previous 2.3. -- personal: