G5 power mac quiet?

burningwheelburningwheel
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
i was wondering are G5 Power Macs quieter than the orignal quicksilvers? are they quiet? i'm just wondering because i think i'm going to have to replace my quicksilver and i'm wondering if there is room for improvement on the noise front..ie i may wait for the new pro mac

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    jpenningtonjpennington Posts: 476member
    I used to have a Dual 2.0, now I have a Quad. The former we quiet, this one is a bit louder.
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    MarvinMarvin Posts: 15,455moderator
    The quad is noisy and I have to say not as snappy at waking up or booting either. There is a big delay somewhere and it makes a big powering up noise - kinda like an aircraft engine starting. Not sure if that's the liquid cooling.
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    jpenningtonjpennington Posts: 476member
    Lol, that is really true. The red light inside the tower comes on, then it sounds like a 747 for a minute, then you wait about 10 seconds, then it comes on. The benefit is, you can have 20 applications up and running perfectly when it wakes up .
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    jeffdmjeffdm Posts: 12,953member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by burningwheel

    i was wondering are G5 Power Macs quieter than the orignal quicksilvers? are they quiet? i'm just wondering because i think i'm going to have to replace my quicksilver and i'm wondering if there is room for improvement on the noise front..ie i may wait for the new pro mac



    I plan to wait until the next revision. If the buyer's guide advice I've seen is right, the workstation line is overdue for an update. I would not be surprised to see it announced at WWDC but I haven't tracked it in the past to know how often they've used it to announce hardware updates.



    I plan to use it to operate a specialized piece of machinery that only has Windows drivers, at least, if it will work under Parallels and/or whatever Leopard has in store for virtualization, I think it might be worthwhile.
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    g520incherg520incher Posts: 86member
    Quote:

    i was wondering are G5 Power Macs quieter than the orignal quicksilvers?



    I own a 2 ghz dual core G5 and find it to be very quiet. It sits on the desk beside me, about 20 inches from my ear and I can just barely hear the fans going. I do a lot of audio recording and it is just fine.



    Quote:

    I would not be surprised to see it announced at WWDC but I haven't tracked it in the past to know how often they've used it to announce hardware updates.



    I'm pretty sure the original G5 PowerMacs were announced at WWDC. It is usually a good venue for hardware announcements, often brought out after a new OSX revision and demo.
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