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Title:
Information about LCU/heatsink cooling
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| A friend of mine has an early 2004 dual 2.5 PCI-X G5 and we were wondering if we could take off the LCU *liquid cooling unit* and swap it out for regular heatsinks. Understandable that the fans will run a little louder, but it will also preserve the logicboard and PSU from being zapped with coolant. Could this be accomplished and then re-calibrated with the AHT 2.5.8 CD? |
| Using Temperature monitor, my cpu's idle around 47 to 50ºC. If it goes over 65ºC then i hear the fans slightly. Then it drops back to idle. |
Device:
Power Mac G5
Tags:
g5, heatsink, liquid cooling system lcs, pci-x
Status:
open
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| 57293 |
Edit by thereddrag0n,
Title:
Information about LCU/heatsink cooling
Text:
| A friend of mine has an early 2004 dual 2.5 PCI-X G5 and we were wondering if we could take off the LCU *liquid cooling unit* and swap it out for regular heatsinks. Understandable that the fans will run a little louder, but it will also preserve the logicboard and PSU from being zapped with coolant. Could this be accomplished and then re-calibrated with the AHT 2.5.8 CD? |
| == Update == |
| The answer to my question is yes. I bought a dual 2 GHz AGP G5 due to intermittent power issues, so i swapped out the 600W ACBel PSU for my Liteon 600W PSU and i ran the dual 2 GHz cpu's for a couple of weeks. Then today i swapped out the 2 GHz cpu's with the 2.5 GHz AGP cpu's and attached them to the heatsinks with new Arctic Silver 5 compound, and ran the 2.5.8 AHD disc and the thermal calibration passed. Now i have a dual 2.5 GHz AGP G5 running on air so no more LCS units for me!!! |
| Using Temperature monitor, my cpu's idle around 47 to 50ºC. If it goes over 65ºC then i hear the fans slightly. Then it drops back to idle. |
Device:
Power Mac G5
Tags:
g5, heatsink, liquid cooling system lcs, pci-x
Status:
open
Edit by David Hodson,
Title:
Information about LCU/heatsink cooling
Text:
A friend of mine has an early 2004 dual 2.5 PCI-X G5 and we were wondering if we could take off the LCU *liquid cooling unit* and swap it out for regular heatsinks. Understandable that the fans will run a little louder, but it will also preserve the logicboard and PSU from being zapped with coolant. Could this be accomplished and then re-calibrated with the AHT 2.5.8 CD?
Device:
Tags:
g5, heatsink, liquid cooling system lcs, pci-x
Status:
open
Original post by thereddrag0n,
Title:
Information about LCU/heatsink cooling
Text:
A friend of mine has an early 2004 dual 2.5 PCI-X G5 and we were wondering if we could take off the LCU *liquid cooling unit* and swap it out for regular heatsinks. Understandable that the fans will run a little louder, but it will also preserve the logicboard and PSU from being zapped with coolant. Could this be accomplished and then re-calibrated with the AHT 2.5.8 CD?
Device:
powermac g5 2.5 ghz dual
Tags:
g5, heatsink, liquid cooling system lcs, pci-x
Status:
open