And yet the
fastest G5 and G4 models blew like wind tunnels. I own both
an MDD G4 and a liquid-cooled quad G5 and they roar at full tilt. The
G5 can outroar even my notoriously noisy POWER6.
My G5 and Mac Pro 8 core are very quiet.
What were you doing that caused them to fully fan-up?
When the quad G5 (I don't know what G5 you own, this is the liquid-cooled
one) is idle, it is reasonably quiet. In a room with no other computers you
will hear it and it is about the same volume as my HEPA filter on low. In
my old apartment, at idle, it was not louder than anything else.
When I'm building stuff (it is the "buildbot" for TenFourFox) and ramp up
the CPU to highest power, then it roars. A nice side benefit is I don't need
a space heater in that room when I'm waiting for rebuilds ;)
I can understand why Apple didn't want the G5 in a laptop, and even I have
reservations about its design relative to the G4, but it was a pretty hot
(heheh) Mac for the time and it still performs pretty well, six years later.
I don't have any plans to retire it or buy an Intel Mac.
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