Dual 2.5GHz G5 Liquid Cooling System - Pics

[klah]

http://www.overclockers.com.au/article.php?id=307166

 

[NightCrawler]

Looks like something taken from a car.

 

[Sunner]

Looks cool, now that's one water cooling system that I'd actually let close to my own computer, I'm guessing it would be pretty useless for a homebuilt PC though 😉

 

[Quasmo]

If that comes from Apple... it probably costs like $2000.

 

[thirdlegstump]

It costs $3000 for the base model with 512MB ram, a 9600XT and a 160GB SATA drive.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: deathkoba
It costs $3000 for the base model with 512MB ram, a 9600XT and a 160GB SATA drive.

Please tell me that's a joke.

Edit - It's not. Give me US$3K and I'll WTFpwn that machine with a dual AMD64 rig. 😀

- M4H

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: deathkoba
It costs $3000 for the base model with 512MB ram, a 9600XT and a 160GB SATA drive.

Please tell me that's a joke.

Edit - It's not. Give me US$3K and I'll WTFpwn that machine with a dual AMD64 rig. 😀

- M4H

You won't do quite as well if you go buy a real workstation, rather than a homebuilt box.
3K is actually pretty reasonable for a high end workstation, including the OS and all, though they really should throw SCSI disks, or at least a Raptor into that box.

 

[thirdlegstump]

Yep it's a heck of a workstation with a huge amount of expansion bays and as many as >3!!< available PCI slots! A workstation that doesn't accomodate internal SCSI drives very well and freezes when installing 2GBs ram. I wouldn't call that POS a workstation. Just imagine how great a lower end iMac is.

Check out some of the crap that gets posted here:

http://discussions.info.apple....hVHaoAcwLp.1@.5998b326

http://discussions.info.apple....hVHaoAcwLp.4@.68959e5e

http://discussions.info.apple....hVHaoAcwLp.4@.6896df64

As far as speed goes with Music applications....and I can vouch for these claims since this is where I spend most of my time:

http://www.musicxpc.com/products/c2/c2_performance.htm

Basically if you can avoid spyware and viruses on Windows, you won't get the benefits of a Mac.

<-originally a crazed Mac fanatic who has seen the top of the mountain. Yea I used to read all the MacAddicts and worshipped Wozniak, Jobs and ooh! GUY KAWASAKI!! Freakin fruitballs.

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: deathkoba
Yep it's a heck of a workstation with a huge amount of expansion bays and as many as >3!!< available PCI slots! A workstation that doesn't accomodate internal SCSI drives very well and freezes when installing 2GBs ram. I wouldn't call that POS a workstation. Just imagine how great a lower end iMac is.

Check out some of the crap that gets posted here:

http://discussions.info.apple....hVHaoAcwLp.1@.5998b326

http://discussions.info.apple....hVHaoAcwLp.4@.68959e5e

http://discussions.info.apple....hVHaoAcwLp.4@.6896df64

As far as speed goes with Music applications....and I can vouch for these claims since this is where I spend most of my time:

http://www.musicxpc.com/products/c2/c2_performance.htm

Basically if you can avoid spyware and viruses on Windows, you won't get the benefits of a Mac.

<-originally a crazed Mac fanatic who has seen the top of the mountain. Yea I used to read all the MacAddicts and worshipped Wozniak, Jobs and ooh! GUY KAWASAKI!! Freakin fruitballs.

Anand installed 4 GB of Crucial RAM in a dual 2 GHz G5 IIRC, and from what I remember, it worked fine.

 

[sharkeeper]

You won't do quite as well if you go buy a real workstation, rather than a homebuilt box.
3K is actually pretty reasonable for a high end workstation, including the OS and all, though they really should throw SCSI disks, or at least a Raptor into that box.

High end workstations have SCSI drives with intelligent Host Bus Adapters often featuring cache arrays larger than the average PC's RAM! ECC memory is also standard, something Apple does not have. (and should) 8GB is also quite skimpy in the realm of the "high end" workstation; 32GB or more should be standard.

Cheers!

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: sharkeeper

You won't do quite as well if you go buy a real workstation, rather than a homebuilt box.
3K is actually pretty reasonable for a high end workstation, including the OS and all, though they really should throw SCSI disks, or at least a Raptor into that box.

High end workstations have SCSI drives with intelligent Host Bus Adapters often featuring cache arrays larger than the average PC's RAM! ECC memory is also standard, something Apple does not have. (and should) 8GB is also quite skimpy in the realm of the "high end" workstation; 32GB or more should be standard.

Cheers!

Yeah I know, which is why I mentioned SCSI.
Though for ~3K, Raptors would have been acceptable IMO.

Also, I was under the impression that you could get the G5 with ECC RAM? Or doesn't it support it?

 

[imported_Hellbender]

Originally posted by: sharkeeper
High end workstations have SCSI drives with intelligent Host Bus Adapters often featuring cache arrays larger than the average PC's RAM! ECC memory is also standard, something Apple does not have. (and should) 8GB is also quite skimpy in the realm of the "high end" workstation; 32GB or more should be standard.

Cheers!

A workstation like that also doesn't cost 3K, it's quite a bit more.

-H

 

[sharkeeper]

A workstation like that also doesn't cost 3K, it's quite a bit more.

Notice I emphasised high end, which the G5 is not.

I have a bid for a pair of high end workstations and the budget for the job is $80k. That gives an idea where that is going.

As for ECC, the G5 doesn't use it. Apparently Apple believes it isn't necessary. Even the lowly Dell precisions we ordered years ago came with it standard.

Cheers!

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: sharkeeper
Notice I emphasised high end, which the G5 is not.

I have a bid for a pair of high end workstations and the budget for the job is $80k. That gives an idea where that is going.

As for ECC, the G5 doesn't use it. Apparently Apple believes it isn't necessary. Even the lowly Dell precisions we ordered years ago came with it standard.

Cheers!

I have to wonder, are these bought from an OEM like HP, Sun, or SGI, or do you build them yourself?

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: sharkeeper

A workstation like that also doesn't cost 3K, it's quite a bit more.

Notice I emphasised high end, which the G5 is not.

I have a bid for a pair of high end workstations and the budget for the job is $80k. That gives an idea where that is going.

As for ECC, the G5 doesn't use it. Apparently Apple believes it isn't necessary. Even the lowly Dell precisions we ordered years ago came with it standard.

Cheers!

To me 80K starts sounding like what I would refer to as "Systems" as opposed to just workstations, such as the Sunfire V880z, but that's semantics I guess 🙂

Didn't know the G5 didn't support ECC though, that kinda sucks.