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Apple Power Mac G5 Quad dissected and photographed

Friday, December 30, 2005 · 2:33 pm · 37 Comments

Here is the new Quad processor from the PowerMac G5. Note the dual cooling pumps and massive heat exchanger. Even the Voltage regulator has a huge heatsink. Keeps my room warm at night.

http://homepage.mac.com/thunderaudio/PhotoAlbum11.html

[Thanks to MacDailyNews reader "Sailfish" for the link.]

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PR

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 3:39 pm · Reply

That thing looks like an Indy Car engine! Only faster…
Jim

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 3:47 pm · Reply

Tim Allen would have an orgasm.
CandT

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 3:50 pm · Reply

Nice. I’m Lovi… ooppss.
JBR

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 4:11 pm · Reply

No wonder Apple is switching to Intel…future PPC CPUs will need a cooling system equivalent to what a nuclear reactor has at this rate…
Mac ed

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 4:11 pm · Reply

Tim Allen would have some more Coke.
Nuclear Kid

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 4:12 pm · Reply

No joke – I’m literally setting up my Quad right now. Received it at the office this morning. 4x1GB ECC RAM and the 7800 video card – WHOA! Previous computer was a Quicksilver…

Happy New Year Everyone!
Macjammer

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 4:19 pm · Reply

Amazing isn’t it. The quad is on my to order list for mid January around about the week of MWSF. Maybe an update will be announced in time?
scottm4321

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 4:20 pm · Reply

Anyone know how much one of these things weigh? No wonder they’re swiching over to Intel. It makes me think that there really isn’t a 2.5 GHz PPC processor, but an over clocked 1.8 or 2.0 that needs all this to function at the higher speed. Apple is right in dumping IBM, imagine what they’ve gone through internally to keep the PowerBook line going.
Sailfish

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 4:24 pm · Reply

Thanks to MacDaily News reader “Sailfish” for the link

shesh, got to pat myself on the back nowadays and don’t tell me MDN saw it first because it’s impossible.

Ok MDN is just trying to piss me off I know, so what?
Sailfish

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 4:28 pm · Reply

haha, oh brother that post got deleted quick, must have misspelled my email adddy when i submitted the link

LOL this is just too much fun, need I change my IP and delete my cookies again? LOL
Sailfish

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 4:30 pm · Reply

Help me somebody I’m seeing things, pink and blue new years elephants are crossing my eyes.

I’m just hot for my body.
gheem

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 4:33 pm · Reply

nice pics, still leary of bios and intel, I want a quad BAD!

The last of the g5 interceptors??
Wingsy

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 4:44 pm · Reply

“No wonder Apple is switching to Intel”

Well, no, it’s not no wonder. They’re doing it so they can have reasonable battery life and good performance with duals in the powerbooks, not because the Quad G5 throws off too much heat. By this time next year Apple might have Quad Intels, who knows. But I betcha it’ll be quite a bit more than a year before a Quad Intel can blow the doors off a Quad G5. Personally I don’t really care how much heat the Quad generates as long as it won’t trip my breakers and it’s quiet, which it is, even when loaded to the gills.
Bill

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 4:52 pm · Reply

Man, that thing is crazy. My guess is that you can’t pick one of those cooling units up at the computer wholesale shop downtown. How often do you have to change the oil on that thing?
macjammer

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 4:54 pm · Reply

As scottm4321 says no wonder Apple are switching to Intel, though the weight is one factor.

Yes a PowerMac with Intel’s “Yonah” inside, Intels answer to dual-core processing, will certainly beat the IBM G5 dual-core in the Quad – but as will newer chips as time passes by.

Not so long ago my current G4 450 dual-single core was thought as being top of the range and powerful. Yes Moore’s law is supposed to have been beaten and no longer relevent.

Even today’s dual-cores will become “old-hat” and outdated/outmoded, especially once a new much more capable material or substance can be found to replace silicon as it is this aspect – silicon – that currently holds back further development in CPU manufacture and design.

Just so that you know I own 4 Macs, with the last purchase being a PowerBook 1Ghz, Combo, an eMac with an upgraded Superdrive – Pioneer’s 110D and my first Mac, which I still use, a G3 B/W Yosemite. Yes I will have 5 Macs once I have got the Quad.
The Other Steve

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 4:58 pm · Reply

Looks like the hoses in my car. What happens is a G5 hose leaks?

Apple repair person – “I’ve checked under the hood and replaced the coolant, but it looks like you need new hoses and a new head gasket. Try to keep it under 2 GHz in the future.”
Sail away

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 5:02 pm · Reply

Sailfish,

Just how do you change your IP address?
Ardie

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 5:19 pm · Reply

I just got done cleaning my air conditioner which is a window unit. Hey, they are using it to cool the Quad!
Whew!

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 5:26 pm · Reply

How much power does this thing take to run it? The electric bill each month just for the computer probably equals my entire apartment electric bill…..
Spark

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 6:26 pm · Reply

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1. Use only 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM
2. Burn only -R DVD
3. Add only Prestone Antifreeze