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More Liquid Cooling Diagrams

Appleinsider publishes more diagrams of the Liquid Cooling System found in the high end PowerMac G5s.

The new cooling system is apparently necessary for higher density PowerPC 970FX chips according to the Apple senior director of desktop product marketing:

The processor was built using the 90-nanometer process. When you do that, you challenge the power density. You could see the same problem happening with Intel's 90-nanometer chips.

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100 months ago
No wonder it took so long to get right ;)
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100 months ago
Is this diagram thing getting old or is just me??
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100 months ago
At the bottom it says all the new models are 970FX chips. I wonder how those compare at the same clock speed to the old 970s.
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100 months ago
that resolves it for everybody

it has a pump

it ain't a heat pipe

it is water cooling
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100 months ago

At the bottom it says all the new models are 970FX chips. I wonder how those compare at the same clock speed to the old 970s.


AH. That's my question too... I didn't know until now that the "new" 1.8 and 2.0 dualies were the 970fx....

I'd love to see a comparison or hear more details (links) on the differences.
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100 months ago
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100 months ago

Is this diagram thing getting old or is just me??

It's not just you.

It's only water cooling, nothing to get too over excited about.
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100 months ago

At the bottom it says all the new models are 970FX chips. I wonder how those compare at the same clock speed to the old 970s.

Accord to BareFeatsthere is no perceptable difference between the new and the old.
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100 months ago

Accord to BareFeatsthere is no perceptable difference between the new and the old.

There shouldn't be. The only difference is PowerTune and the use of SS-SOI which are power-saving features. At the same clock, the performance should be identical.
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100 months ago
This is supposed to fit into a PowerBook eventually? Wow, good luck...
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