Kynan, Your address is one of computer engineering...so - enlighten us - can I disconnect the liquid cooling system in the G5? And - why is "everything is so dense"?? Is that a design flaw? And if it isn't - it's still generating a lot of heat for it's design, right? You can't have it BOTH ways, Kynan..Remember all those "Yes, we have NO vanilla" and the credit card "good news" - "Our service just got BETTER (for them)...we have instituted the following changes - the grace period is now 20 days (used to be 25) and the APR is 22% (was 19%..) Best, Henry Kynan Shook wrote: > This is rather inaccurate. First of all, the G5 does not *require* 9 > fans; Apple *chose* to use 9 fans because then all of them can run > very slowly, generating as little noise as possible while keeping the > machine well within its normal operating temperatures. The liquid > cooling is also fairly unnecessary, and is mostly used because the G5 > is a much smaller chip than any of Intel's chips, hence its power > dissipation is much more dense. So, even though the G5 takes > significantly less power than most Intel or other x86 chips, cooling > is sometimes more difficult because everything is so dense. > > So, in reality, the cooling system in the G5 is incredibly > overpowered for what it's doing. > > Henry Kalir <kalirhe at umdnj.edu> writes: > >> You cite Intel's "..[boring] power-hungry processor lineup" yet fail to >> mention that the G5 requires NINE cooling fans as well as **liquid >> cooling** for the CPU to deal with the heat generated by its >> components. > >