Mac G5 case. Wow.

[Rosencrantz]

I go to a design school and we recently got 26 new G5 computers.. Now i'm definately a PC guy but i still find macs useful and sometimes necessary (Final Cut Pro). Anyway, these G5 cases are friggin nice!!!! You have to see one up close and personal: the pictures dont do it justice. Oh, and the way the Superdrive "cover" that SLIDES DOWN when you press eject is slick!!! :Q

 

[0roo0roo]

yea, i think it has 9 temperature/os controlled fans with straight line airflow, something no pc has. the air flow is awesome! ussually quite quiet too.

 

[nick1985]

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[nick1985]

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[Rosencrantz]

sorry, i didnt know.. i just joined the forums.

 

[madcow235]

I was looking at them at the local Mac store in the Palisades mall. They arent as small as they look in the pics. They are pretty hefty actually and they look like cheese graters. The inside is even less impressive and they show off those hefty aluminum heatinks when in reality they are still aluminum.

 

[0roo0roo]

those hefty aluminum heatsinks do their job though, they don't share air with any other part of the case. can't say that for most pc's. you don't use copper heatsinks unless you really have to, a copper heatsink by itself isnt going to make your sysmte faster unless you overclock, so no point for apple at this point apparently.

 

[madcow235]

If they werent theming the inside of the case they could have used much smaller copper heatsinks that would give the same if not better cooling for cheaper.

 

[0roo0roo]

copper costs more then aluminum no? so even smaller copper heatsinks would probably cost the same or more right?

why do pc's need copper heatsinks now? because they put out so much heat. if the g5 can get away with the aluminum heatsink for now, i don't really care. its got a straight line of circulation from the front of the case to the back of the case through the heatsink. airflow is not restrcted like on pc heatsinks where the fans have to blow straight down through fins towards a solid base. the efficiency has to be better as fans are not good at fighting back pressure, being that the g5 fans are in straight line series to boot boosts their efficiency to about max possible.

the fact is it works. you don't see g5's burning up or crashing because of heat. the o/s even controls the fans in advance when it predicts high heat output from certain activities. i'm sure they'll use copper in the future, i'm not sure how aluminum looks better then copper like you seem to be asserting. my guess is they are saving money.

you can't even see the heatsinks, they are shrouded, they could put copper ones in there under the silver cover wihtout changing the look anyways.

fact is most retail heatsinks that come with amd processors are still aluminum. guess their engineers are twits.

 

[BoomAM]

Originally posted by: madcow235
I was looking at them at the local Mac store in the Palisades mall. They arent as small as they look in the pics. They are pretty hefty actually and they look like cheese graters. The inside is even less impressive and they show off those hefty aluminum heatinks when in reality they are still aluminum.

Do you mean the Palisades above New Street Station? In Brum?
Didnt know there was a MAC shop there. Theres one in the new bullring though. At the back of Selfridges, in a shop called Micro Activa.