Liquid Cooled 2.5ghz Powermac G5

Omega65

According to ZDnet, The new top of the line 2.5ghz PowerMac G5 will be Liquid Cooled.

You can see the cooling system design here

The new flagship G5 desktop model will include dual 2.5GHz processors--IBM’s latest 90-nanometer PowerPC 970FX chips--as well as a faster 1.25GHz front-side bus, which is a pipeline that shuttles data to and from the processor, and a new liquid cooling system. The machine will ship in July for a price starting at $2,999, Boger said.

It will also include 512MB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, ATI's Radeon 9600 XT graphics card (with its own 128MB of onboard RAM) and an 8x Apple SuperDrive, which can burn DVDs and CDs.

But even with the dual 2.5GHz system, Apple had wanted more by the Power Mac G5's first birthday, which is this month.

Dual CPU, Liquid Cooled and Factory Overclocked Complete with an awe inspiring ATI 9600XT

You gotta love that one Photoshop benchmark they always trot out to show how fast the G5 is. They even show the Alien

Source: ZDNet

muddocktor

That they had to go watercooled to keep it quiet is telling me that IBM is having a thermal problem with their .09 process too, reading between the lines. Since IBM was also called in to help AMD with A64, that makes me wonder what kind of problems with heat AMD will be running in to when they transition to the .09 process.

mmonnin

AMD is using SOI process as well tho. That should make it a little bit easier. Basic transistors are reaching their limits and manf. are having to come up with new ways of making CPUs.

There is a lot more current leakage the smaller and smaller you get which is causing the heat. The Prescotts use less voltage yet use more power. Since P=V*I and if V goes down and P goes UP then that means I goes way up. They have to counter the loss with adding even more.

TheBaron

so in otherwords its a copy of that cool-ass lian-li compartmentalized case along with heatpipes slapped on their heatsink. yay apple