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| Thread ID: 73629 | 2006-10-26 23:41:00 | How many people use liquid cooled PCs? | pico (4752) | PC World Chat |
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| 494676 | 2007-01-15 23:04:00 | Possibly although from looking at the pics of it I got the impression that it was liquid cooled although I could be wrong. In reply to your comment Greg, Apple like their machines to run cool and silent. the G5 chip ran hot, thats why it didn't appear in a laptop |
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| 494677 | 2007-01-16 00:40:00 | It could be that the up and coming Quad cored chips will negate the need for liquid cooling due to the distributed nature of tasks accross all 4 or 8 cores of the processor. | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 494678 | 2007-01-16 20:01:00 | It could be that the up and coming Quad cored chips will negate the need for liquid cooling due to the distributed nature of tasks accross all 4 or 8 cores of the processor. I'm sure we'll find new ways to get all those cores pumping! ;) From the last issue of PCW it sounds like some of the CPU's cores will be performing graphics functions (replacing the GPU) so chances are that high powered games of the future could put them through their paces. |
pico (4752) | ||
| 494679 | 2007-01-16 20:31:00 | No doubt although if you were able to have 1 or even 2 cores soley dedicated to GPU out of 4 or 8 cores would you need to over clock. My guess would be that you would actually need to consider potential bottle necks in other parts of the chip first. This is what the Mac Pro Tower runs with (ok you don't use it for games) You can however throw some big video files and other stuff at it. * Two 2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon "Woodcrest" processors * 1GB memory (667MHz DDR2 fully-buffered DIMM ECC) * NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT graphics with 256MB memory * 250GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7200-rpm hard drive1 * 16x double-layer SuperDrive |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 494680 | 2007-01-17 04:19:00 | No doubt although if you were able to have 1 or even 2 cores soley dedicated to GPU out of 4 or 8 cores would you need to over clock . My guess would be that you would actually need to consider potential bottle necks in other parts of the chip first . This is what the Mac Pro Tower runs with (ok you don't use it for games) You can however throw some big video files and other stuff at it . * Two 2 . 66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon "Woodcrest" processors * 1GB memory (667MHz DDR2 fully-buffered DIMM ECC) * NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT graphics with 256MB memory * 250GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7200-rpm hard drive1 * 16x double-layer SuperDrive I dont understand, 4 cores with 1 GB memory? |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 494681 | 2007-01-17 06:27:00 | the G5 chip ran hot, thats why it didn't appear in a laptop I know :) Thanks plod. I can't find the pics I saw a while back that appeared to show what I thought was a smaller liquid cooling set up for the Intel Mac Pro, but I could have just been assuming or miss reading something.... Edit. Just had a closer look here and store.apple.com I can say it was definitely my mistake, only liquid cooling was on the Dual 2.7 not the Intel version. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 494682 | 2007-01-17 06:28:00 | I dont understand, 4 cores with 1 GB memory? Base configuration. You can outfit it with upto 16GB if you can afford it.:eek: |
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