Liquid cooled dual processor G5s

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This is pretty damn sweet.

from: http://www.apple.com/powermac/design.html

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The Power Mac G5 is the world’s coolest personal computer in every sense of the term. Mind-boggling leaps in processing power require innovative design for dissipating heat. So the Power Mac G5 delivers a system that screams with power, not noisy fans.

Hip To Be Cool

Take it up a notch without losing your cool. The top-of-the-line Power Mac G5 with dual 2.5GHz processors squeezes outrageous performance into tight quarters. To cool down those steaming circuits, Apple designed a sophisticated liquid cooling system that takes off the heat without bumping up the noise. Mac OS X dynamically adjusts the flow of the fluid and the speed of the fans based on temperature.

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I've seen water cooling systems for PC's for as low as $150, they've been around a few years. It's definately a worthy investment IMO, especially if you are one of those who leaves the computer on all the time. Helps keep the benchmarks up.
 
I seen an AMD Athlon useing a liquid Nitrogen cooling system a cryogenic chip cooler was impressive
 
I installed 2 of the older dual 2 gig units in our design department in March. Only 2 Macs I have in the network :angry:
 
How reliable is all this? It doesn't seem like computers and a cooling system would go well together.
 
My knowledge of computers is pretty small, but I do see an advantage. Maybe not practical because smaller and lighter always seems to be better.

A friend saw the talk show when someone submersed a TV in this liquid and it still functioned. He found some information and sent it my way. Could be a circus act, but 3M is a huge company, I can't see them spreading false info.

As far as cooling systems for computers. Water is an excellent source for displacing heat, but it is corrosive and conductive. A water jacket is not nearly as effective as submersing a unit because there is far less points of contact.

If this liquid does not react with any of the components of the computer and does not conduct a current I don't see any issues.

I'm a chemist not a computer tech. Could be more to this than I see.
 
I am into regular computing. I might buy a liquid cooled computer in the future. I am into doning my own mods and upgrades on the computers I own. I would not want a computer that I couldn't modify because of liquid cooling.

Emo
 
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